[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's not XML, it's a sort of flat-text-ish thing with various keywords > for setting keys, keygroups, mutegroups and so on. > > Having briefly skimmed the spec over lunch, I'm not in much of a > position to say how good it is, but it "looks right". > > Essentially an SFZ file is a text file describing what to do with a > bunch of .wav or .ogg files. It's almost worryingly clueful.
It wasn't actually created by Cakewalk, but by a small company that Cakewalk had bought, and rather than closing up or quelching SFZ, they decided to keep it open. That's the story best as I was able to divine it, anyway. And now with the news that Tascam is discontinuing all Gigastudio-related development (http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=1738 and confirmed on the "Legacy" section of Tascam's web site: http://www.tascam.com/legacy;37,7.html) it's possible that SFZ might become a new standard for sample libraries to use. Garritan is apparently releasing, or getting set to release, their libraries in SFZ now. My issue now, though, is I clearly do not have the skills to create a good, usable library. Nor do I want to; I'd rather spend that time creating a working application, even if it's a monolithic one. I'm here because I'm broke and scratching my own itch. If I had the money, I'd go off and buy NI Komplete and be happy actually making music. It can be argued that learning programming and DSP is making me a better person, but it certainly isn't making me a happier one. So now I'm working out a plan for a code framework for making software synths and samplers, likely directed graph based. I might release that framework separately, but no one will likely get a library out of me. I can only do what I can do with the tools I have, and "scratching my own itch" comes first. Maybe someone with those skills would like to jump in and help? I realize that code says more on this forum than talk, but surely I can try to gather a team together for a larger project. Right? Maybe? -- Darren Landrum _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev