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). 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. James -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
