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gordonjcp@gjcp.net wrote:

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> 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

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