On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 22:53 +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.
Why? The soundfont spec is a standard. Besides it's supported by
hardware wavetable synths so it's not going away. There is zero
evidence that it's "not free enough".
Lee
Received on Fri Mar 11 08:15:07 2005
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