SF-enhanced 4 Specification

Machine-readable version (Markdown) - 4.0 Update 21

Copyright notice

All parts of this specification may be reproduced without additional written permission by the SFe Team, provided that you follow the license in section 2.3.

The SFe Team is in no way sponsored by or otherwise affiliated with Creative Technology Ltd. or E-mu Systems, Inc.

To avoid confusion with the official SoundFont standard, the file format is referred throughout to as “SF” and/or “SFe”. Future versions of SFe may not be compatible with legacy SF players.

That being said, “soundfont” is rapidly becoming a generalised word via the actions of the VGM (video game music) and lightsaber communities. If you are a member of the VGM, lightsaber, or another community, by not appropriating “SoundFont” for your unrelated formats, you can help keep the meaning of the trademark.

Any excerpts from SFSPEC24.PDF are copyrighted by Creative Technology Ltd, and are only used for reference. However, we are confident that the base file format is not copyrightable.

Disclaimers

This specification is subject to change without notice. Please obtain the latest version from the SFe Team GitHub page at https://github.com/sfe-team-was-taken.

This specification assumes familiarity of the SoundFont 2.04 file format (SFSPEC24.PDF), which can be found at here.

The separate sections of this specification can be found in the table of contents on the left.