Re: [linux-audio-user] sf2 soundfont spec license

From: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Mar 11 2005 - 00:08:21 EET

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.

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