On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:12:19PM +0100, Leonard paniq Ritter wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 14:17 +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > > 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. > > which is exactly what i was suggesting. i'm not calling to use sf2 as a > standard, but using merely the order, metaphors and lingo of the format > description so people feel at home, and mental mapping becomes easier. > the new format will be extensible, so it's not bad to start off with a > known feature set. > > it will take a few weeks until i have time for this, so be prepared :)
A very late response ... but are you aware of libInstPatch: http://swami.sourceforge.net/devel.php -Eric Rz.