sfArk SoundFont Compression for Linux and Mac
Decompress-only versions of sfArk are available for MacOS X and Linux . Full versions (i.e. including compression) may be made available if there is sufficient demand.
Version 1 sfArk files cannot be uncompressed with these utilities. This is because the original version of sfArk (released in 1998) used a third-party DLL which has no equivalent on non-Windows platforms. At that time, the SoundFont format was almost exclusively used on Windows based systems, but of course things have changed. To remove this limitation we stopped using that DLL with Version 2 of sfArk (released in early 2000) but there are still some sfArk files on the net in the original V1 format. If you find such files, please ask the WebMaster to convert them to V2 format in order to allow non-Windows users to decompress them.
Please email any comments to sfArkForMac or sfArkForLinux at melodymachine.com. Also join the mailing list to be kept informed of developments.
We would welcome contact from anyone who would like to develop a GUI front-end for the Linux version.
Last updated: 01 July 2004