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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 synthesizers, typically on audio cards, thereby effectively turning an ordinary

sound card into a sampler.

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, pre-

sets, 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 de-

vice was used for creating them.

File type

Extension

Description