that's not an ironic use of the trademark symbol btw.

[hikari@social.noyu.me]

that's not an ironic use of the trademark symbol btw. SoundFont is a registered trademark of Creative Technology. and if you're thinking “hey aren't they the company notable for making sound cards in the 1990's” that's because, yes, this is ancient and obsolete technology

[hikari@social.noyu.me]

unfortunately (and this is where i go a little nuclear) CREATIVE SoundFont was never particularly good. why are we still using this. why has the name become quasi-genericised. surely there are better ways to do libraries of sampled instruments.

[hikari@social.noyu.me]

god i guess one way to explain it is that it's like if you were really into the moog or something and then people are like “oh yeah i love that! i have a moog synthesiser sample library that all my gamer friends tell me sounds the most realistic”. it's not the same instrument

[hikari@social.noyu.me]

i can respect a sample library as a legitimate kind of “instrument” in its own right but…

[hikari@social.noyu.me]

people will pour great amounts of effort into making the “best” SC-55-soundalike CREATIVE SoundFont file and it'll take up like a hundred times more disk space than the original ROMs did and not even support adjusting the fucking filter cutoff, so it can't play electronic music

[hikari@social.noyu.me]

i think the gimmick of “here's a General MIDI sound set that resembles the instrument samples from Super Mario 64's soundtrack” is kinda neat though i suppose. that's a weird way to use CREATIVE SoundFont technology but it's a fun one at least

[hikari@social.noyu.me]

i am a single issue voter in this election and my single issue is that nobody understands general midi. not satisfied with the candidates' answers on this matter

[erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net]

@hikari ..because nobody put together a standard for something better? (especially while this was still relevant)