Re: [fluid-dev] Supported Wave/Flac format other than SF2

[David Henningsson]

On 2015-01-31 07:36, James Lei wrote:
> Going by SF2 is going to be hard for developer to implement new
> soundfont, Native Instrument has supported Wav and Flac files and there
> are plenty audio loops (http://www.producerloops.com) on the web.
>
> FluidSynth should consider implement support for these improvement.

I'm not sure if wave and FLAC files makes much sense for FluidSynth. You 
would still need some kind of framework to tell how these wave files 
should be played depending on what note you press and how hard, etc. And 
the SF2 file format is just such a framework.

As for other frameworks (such as SFZ), I think it would be nice if we 
could support that. But it would be substantial effort to implement 
that; hence nobody has attempted it so far. Also, if we would bring more 
than SF2 in, I'd like more people to chime in as well.

// David