In short, there were a lot of technical constraints that prevented the production of realistic instrument sounds. Doing so relied on real time processing which is also expensive back then. Beyond synthesizersД«ack when memory was expensive synthesizers were used to electronically produce different instrument sounds. The term вЂњ sampleвЂњ, on the other hand, could be ambiguous as it may also include melodic more-than-one note sound segments intended for quick вЂњcopy pasteвЂќ or remix music. Usage of the term soundfontДЄlthough it may be more correct to use the term вЂњ sample libraryвЂќ as a general term, the term soundfont seems to be frequently used even for other similar non sf2 formats all around the internet. The soundfont technology was developed by Creative back in the 90вЂ™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 вЂ“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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