The soundfont technology was developed by Creative back in the 90’s. For example, soundfonts can be used to go beyond the usual limitation of having cheesy sounds unfairly associated with MIDI. Soundfonts enable you to do such changes digitally. But you can go further by specifying a specific instrument (e.g. Just as you can change the fonts in a document or web page, you can also change the instrument for a given piece of music (e.g. Soundfont files commonly have the extension sf2. It is helpful to think of them as virtual instruments –musical instruments that exist in your hard drive (this is the future! :D ). Soundfonts are called soundfonts in analogy with word processor (type setting) fonts. Hence, I will be discussing something quite elementary. Since I had temporarily run out of such topics, I now return to the purpose of establishing this blog. I have side tracked a bit as other related topics of interest come and go. But then again, the purpose of this blog is to inform people, especially the beginners. It may be weird to be discussing this article after having gone through more advanced topics before.
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