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
