Creative Music Format

File Format
Name	Creative Music Format
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Audio and Music Creative Music Format
Extension(s)	.cmf

Description

The Creative Music Format (CMF) was designed by Creative Labs for use with their Sound Blaster range of sound cards. It is structurally related to MIDI, but allows custom instruments to be stored in the file itself.

Information

• Creative Labs File Formats (SBI/CMF/IBK) (Same file at textfiles.com)
• Creative Music File v1.10 (Same file at textfiles.com, with newsgroup header from 1994)
• ModdingWiki - CMF Format

Software

Conversion

• cmf2mid (CMF to MIDI)

Playback

• AdPlug / AdPlay (cross-platform, open source)
• xmms-adlib (source only)

Sample files

• http://cd.textfiles.com/vgaspectrum/sound/ → cmf*/
• https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/music/STEALTH.CMF