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SOUNDS, PATCHES AND THE BROWSER
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SoundFont Bank .sf2 The SoundFont format was co-developed by E-mu Systems and Creative Technologies and is
used with many audio cards and software synthesizers. SoundFont banks store wavetable
synthesized sounds, allowing users to create and edit multi-sampled sounds in special
Soundfont editing programs. The SoundFonts can then be played back in wavetable synthe-
sizers, typically on audio cards, thereby effectively turning an ordinary sound card into a sam-
pler.
The NN-XT and NN19 Samplers and the Redrum drum machine allow you to browse and
load SoundFonts. Regardless of which editing program was used to create them, these banks
are similarly and hierarchically organized, with folders for instruments, presets, samples etc.
The NN-XT, NN19 and the Redrum lets you load individual samples and presets from a
SoundFont bank, but
not the complete SoundFont.
Rack Extension Patch .repatch These are patches for Rack Extension devices. All Rack Extension devices use the same file
extension but the patch files contain different data depending on which device was used for
creating them.
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