from what i see, sf2 seems to be quite popular, due to fluidsynth, so i will start off there. i suppose any open format should be based on sf2 lingo, with perhaps an bin/xml-in-zip based structure. we recently created a new tracker module file format based on that, and it works out pretty well... i believe svgz works quite the same way (not quite tho).
so i suppose the best way would be to reimplement sf2 as some kind of xsfz format, write a forth-back conversion library/utility and release the whole work under a bsd licence to make it easy for free and commercial developers to catch up... On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 10:27 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:30:10AM +0100, Leonard paniq Ritter wrote: > > hi everybody, > > > > i'm looking for a sampler instrument file format similar to .nki, .sf2 > > or akai instruments. is there an open standard existing already, perhaps > > even accompanied by some sort of library? > > http://resonance.org:8000/openinstruments/show/HomePage > (Didn't take off) > > > -- > Thorsten Wilms -- -- Leonard Ritter -- http://www.leonard-ritter.com -- http://www.paniq.org
