Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] MIDI on alsa with SBLIve
From: Chris Cannam (cannam_AT_all-day-breakfast.com)
Date: Wed Sep 22 2004 - 11:30:26 EEST
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
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