On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 22:25 +0000, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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). Wouldn't fluidsynth be a good place to start? It's command line, and it can load soundfonts and dump info on them already. Plus it's a good synth. Lee
