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

From: <james@email-addr-hidden-dot-dat.net>
Date: Mon Mar 14 2005 - 13:47:42 EET

On Mon, 14 Mar, 2005 at 12:10AM +0100, Christoph Eckert spake thus:
> Hi,
>
>
> > Well, you could at least start with what you want from the
> > new format.  What exactly do you want that soundfonts can't
> > provide?
>
> Hmmm, my idea was not that much to create a new format due to
> features that soundfont lacks but to have a format which is
> absolutely free - and will ever be free.

Fair enough. Your spec is "free SF2", then :)
 
> [...]
>
> > I agree that XML isn't necessarily hard to read, but
> > imagine 3 or 4 levels of hierarchy, with between 5 and 15
> > parameters in each.  The format used by sf2text (which
> > doesn't even consider all parameters) is quite slim
> > compared to XML-style tagging and yet the output can be
> > huge.
>
> Well, a further argument against XML is that if any device
> will ever be based on the new format, it needs lots of
> sontware in its firmware to read XML. So, perhaps a simpler
> format could be helpful.

Good point.

> [...]
>
> > I'm an optimistic person.  For me the glass is always full,
> > even if most of it is just full of carbon dioxide, oxygen
> > and other gases.
>
> Hehe, I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm very pragmatic :) .
>
>
> Best regards & thanks for the thoughts
>
>
> ce
>
>

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