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It also works in Mac OS 9
Authored by: minouche on Jun 07, '02 10:02:34AM

SoundFont support was included in QT5 either in OS 9 or OS X.
The major problem is that soundfonts are usually compressed. And you have to uncompress these files with some applications that are only available for Windows.
nevertheless, it works fine



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Compressed SoundFonts
Authored by: melodymachine on Jun 18, '03 12:13:36PM

There's been an OSX decompressor for sfArk compressed SoundFonts out for a while. Officially its a beta, but no major problems have been reported.

http://melodymachine.com/sfark.htm

The other compressor used for SoundFonts, sfpack, does not have any Mac version, and it seems unlikey that it ever will as their website disappeard from the net a couple of years ago, and no new release of the program has been made for even longer.

Suggestion: If you find files in sfpack format, email the webmaster asking for him/her to convert them to sfArk files so that they will be accessible to Mac OSX users.

Mac OS9 version of sfArk remains unlikely however.



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