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

From: John Check <j4strngs@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Mar 11 2005 - 01:27:43 EET

On Thursday 10 March 2005 04:53 pm, 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.
>

SoundFont != just sample data. If anything is an architecture for wavetable
synthesis and a parameter storage format

> Unfortunately, this would need lots of time and resources, and
> as 'we' are not enough users, it wouldn't be spread widely
> enough.
>

It might be feasible to spec something compatible though. IMO it would
still be redundant.

>
> Best regards
>
>
> ce
Received on Fri Mar 11 08:15:16 2005

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