Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

soundfont

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English

Syllables: sound-font
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A set of digital or digitized instruments in SoundFont format.

noun

Any set of digital or digitized instruments, particularly when used in the soundtrack of a video game.

Informal

Example Sentences

"In the description of the upload, Brad gave credit to Mine Timelapser for providing the soundfont for K.K Slider’s instrumentals. This has all of K.K. Slider’s notes available to download for composers that wish to recreate songs in the style of the guitar-playing dog."
"It quite incredibly recreates the entire 43-minute album with the Super Mario 64 soundfont (a soundfont is essentially all the files used to create a given soundtrack), and I can only speculate at the amount of time that's gone into this."
""About two years ago I made a version of Roygbiv by Boards Of Canada in the Mario 64 soundfont," he said."

Etymology

From the trademark SoundFont, from sound + font, by analogy with a font or digital typeface.

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

soundfonts (plural)

Questions

What does soundfont mean?: A set of digital or digitized instruments in SoundFont format.
Where does soundfont come from?: From the trademark SoundFont, from sound + font, by analogy with a font or digital typeface.

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