Which then begs the question: how was that soundfont put together?Stupid American Pig wrote:I had the soundfonts of all the proteus and planet phatt sounds and found them very underwhelming.
If the soundfont is a 1-to-1 transfer of the original samples (there are some legal issues with that) with all associated parameters (loop points, EG's, etc etc) then you'll be guessing what the f&#% is different.
BUT if some dude just connected up that synth to SampleRobot and rushed that into a soundfont, you know you cannot compare that to the original. It then no longer is an instrument but merely a sample.
Bottom line: it takes a lot of time for very talented people to pay attention to little detail to craft together a very usable instrument with surprisingly few data. It is these limitations and the knowledge you'll have to deal with it.
But anyway, assume you have 4 MB of 8 bit samples on 32 kHz sampling rate. That is a bit over 2 minutes of audio. If you need a good raw waveform: 100Hz would get you plenty of detail, @ 32 kHz that's 320 samples long. Four megabytes divided by 320 equals thirteen thousand different raw waveforms. Be creative, and that surely would be enough to get things done.
So you children are sooo spoiled with yer terabyte drives...