On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:53:58PM +0100, Christoph
Eckert wrote:
Hi,
If it is not open enough to take advantage of
then is there
any truly open soundfont-like standard anywhere on the
planet?
for me it somehow looks as there's need to define a new,
absolutely free file format for sampling data.
Unfortunately, this would need lots of time and resources, and
as 'we' are not enough users, it wouldn't be spread widely
enough.
I don't know how featurefull it is, but specimen's beef bank format
might be worth looking into. I chatted with the author a while ago on
#lad at freenode. My fuzzy memory is that it uses xml and wouldn't be
too hard to script.
The result won't be useable by any emu10k1 soundfont loader. Or
fluidsynth. Or anything.
Please, is it REALLY necessary to reinvent the wheel here, when there
are so many other outstanding issues with Linux audio?
Lee