22 Sep
2004
22 Sep
'04
6:36 a.m.
On Wednesday 22 Sep 2004 02:34, Erik Steffl wrote:
Q: why are soundfonts mostly in funny formats (exe?
sfArk?),
instead of compressed *SF2 files (using some common compression
program like zip or gzip etc.).
Because sfArk and sfpack compress soundfonts much better than
zip/gzip/bzip2 can.
I didn't expect that to be true myself, but it is. I guess a Free
alternative would want to use some sort of dedicated audio
compression like FLAC.
Chris