On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:12:19PM +0100, Leonard paniq Ritter wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 14:17 +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> > > so i suppose the best way would be to reimplement sf2 as some kind of
> > > xsfz format, write a forth-back conversion library/utility and release
> > > the whole work under a bsd licence to make it easy for free and
> > > commercial developers to catch up...
> >
> > Sound Font is a dead end. One of the few things that was agreed by the
> > majority on that list, was to use an XML based format for the articulation
> > informations, probably encapsulated into a common compression format. Which
> > makes sense, considering where we all come from. You know.... command line
> > fetishists, light-weight text editor freaks.
>
> which is exactly what i was suggesting. i'm not calling to use sf2 as a
> standard, but using merely the order, metaphors and lingo of the format
> description so people feel at home, and mental mapping becomes easier.
> the new format will be extensible, so it's not bad to start off with a
> known feature set.
>
> it will take a few weeks until i have time for this, so be prepared :)
A very late response ... but are you aware of libInstPatch:
http://swami.sourceforge.net/devel.php
-Eric Rz.
Received on Thu Feb 8 00:15:01 2007
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