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 > > -- "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)
