13 Mar
2005
13 Mar
'05
7:13 p.m.
Hi,
Well, you could at least start with what you want from
the
new format. What exactly do you want that soundfonts can't
provide?
Hmmm, my idea was not that much to create a new format due to
features that soundfont lacks but to have a format which is
absolutely free - and will ever be free.
[...]
I agree that XML isn't necessarily hard to read,
but
imagine 3 or 4 levels of hierarchy, with between 5 and 15
parameters in each. The format used by sf2text (which
doesn't even consider all parameters) is quite slim
compared to XML-style tagging and yet the output can be
huge.
Well, a further argument against XML is that if any device
will ever be based on the new format, it needs lots of
sontware in its firmware to read XML. So, perhaps a simpler
format could be helpful.
[...]
I'm an optimistic person. For me the glass is
always full,
even if most of it is just full of carbon dioxide, oxygen
and other gases.
Hehe, I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm very pragmatic :) .
Best regards & thanks for the thoughts
ce