Am Mittwoch, 22. November 2006 10:27 schrieb Thorsten Wilms: > > 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)
We started discussion on that list a while ago, but not really with a consensus. It fell asleep majorly due to priorites. Am Mittwoch, 22. November 2006 12:43 schrieb Leonard "paniq" Ritter: > 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... Sound Font is a dead end. One of the few things that was agreed by the majority on that list, was to use an XML based format for the articulation informations, probably encapsulated into a common compression format. Which makes sense, considering where we all come from. You know.... command line fetishists, light-weight text editor freaks. CU Christian
