KVR Audio

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:01 pm

I don't get it, wouldn't it be better to call it SF2+ ?

jsp1979 · Post by **jsp1979** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:06 pm

I agree it's confusing, but it's been covered here in threads in the past.

Here's some good reading:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=234180

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:12 pm

Numanoid wrote:I don't get it, wouldn't it be better to call it SF2+ ?

It was based on sfz, which was originally a soundfont player (ie sf2 => sfz).

Rene, the developer, realised it would be useful to create a universal 'open' soundset format, and he named that sfz. Then sfz was updated to play sfz files too. But sfz+ never was.

160 pages with the history on the subject buried in them here:

www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25440
www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28638

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:16 pm

OK, thanks for the info

I don't think it is too late for Cakewalk to change the name of the product

Why is it called SFZ+ when it reads just SF2 files?