Another MIDI question - soundfonts

[Laszlo Nagy]

Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm writing a microtonal sequencer, and I don't want to use MIDI per
> se, but I'd like to be able to load standard sample banks to play.
> The only standard format I'm familiar with is soundfont, and it seems
> to be the most popular; if anyone knows of others, especially for Mac,
> which I believe most of my software's users will be using, I'd love to
> know about it.
> And, does anyone know a python module that will allow me to load in
> soundfont files and make use of their info?  I'd like to be able to
> remap the pitches, of course, but using the same presets and such.
>   
I have no clue but I believe that you can find VST instruments that can 
load sound fonts. I'm almost sure that you'll find a VST sound font 
player that can be loaded as a DLL on Windows. Then you can use that DLL 
from Python for sure. ( Ugly interface. :-& )

   L