On Thu, 10 Mar, 2005 at 05:08PM -0500, Eric Dantan
Rzewnicki spake thus:
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.
Sounds good, but until it's as common as SF2, I personally will stick
with what we're trying to achieve here: a commandline SF2 processor,
for mouse-o-phobics (like me) and for people that need something more
accessible (like Julien).
Wouldn't fluidsynth be a good place to start? It's command line, and it
can load soundfonts and dump info on them already. Plus it's a good
synth.
Lee