[Freepats] future .sf2s weigths

[Mark Constable]

On Friday 28 April 2006 15:08, Marcos Guglielmetti Gmail wrote:
> 	I think that when the samples will be into the "sf2" stage, the piano 
> will be too big for almost any machine... Qsynth behavioral was too 
> slow when I used soundfonts bigger than 30mb on a 128mb PC (now i have 
> 384mb, but I did not tried again).

Don't let the license issues stop you because the samples
are, at least, free for personal use. We just hope that
by the time you can distribute them that the license issues
are sorted out and you can just simply add whichever license
is appropriate.

> 	I think that (when the licence issue could be clear) I should make 
> little, medium and big .sf2 files... but I am just supposing, I will 
> have to test all of these things.

That could be a lot of work. Perhaps just "best" quality,
no matter what the size, and "smallest in size" minimum
quality.

> 	Also, I must learn a few things about the .sf2 format, as instance, how 
> to make different layers (if it's possible, I dont know really)

Yes, layers are possible. I've seen mention of up to 12
layers. I only hope the meaning of layers is what I think
it should mean, and that is for various volume levels
in parallel.

I found the latest Creative v2.04 (24bit) spec and a bunch
of other stuff and uploaded it all to...

 http://freepats.opensrc.org/sf2/

the 2 piano soundfonts are definitely layered so they could
provide an example of how to create layers.

--markc