On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:25:52PM +0000, james@email-addr-hidden-dot-dat.net wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar, 2005 at 05:08PM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki spake thus:
> > 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.
> Sounds good, but until it's as common as SF2, I personally will stick
> with what we're trying to achieve here: a commandline SF2 processor,
> for mouse-o-phobics (like me) and for people that need something more
> accessible (like Julien).
agreed. just mentioning it as something else that's out there.
I am, like you, anti-mouse.
> Which reminds me: Julien (if you're reading this) what would your
> requirements be? This isn't specifically for you, but you did cause
> this project to start, so you should have some input.
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