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* Ableton
 
* Ableton
 
** [[Ableton Live]]
 
** [[Ableton Live]]
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* Adobe Audition
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** [[Cool Edit / Audition Multi Track Session file]] (.ses)
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** [[Audition]] (.sesx)
 
* Aldrin
 
* Aldrin
 
** [[Creative Commons Module]] (.ccm)
 
** [[Creative Commons Module]] (.ccm)
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** [[Cakewalk Project (WRK)]] (.wrk)
 
** [[Cakewalk Project (WRK)]] (.wrk)
 
** [[Cakewalk Sample Definition File]] (.sfz)
 
** [[Cakewalk Sample Definition File]] (.sfz)
* [[Cool Edit / Audition Multi Track Session file]] (.sss)
 
 
* [[CPS project]] (.cps)
 
* [[CPS project]] (.cps)
 
* [[Digital Performer]]
 
* [[Digital Performer]]
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* Propellerhead (Reason, ReCycle)
 
* Propellerhead (Reason, ReCycle)
 
** [[Propellerhead Reason NN-XT Patch File]] (.sx2)
 
** [[Propellerhead Reason NN-XT Patch File]] (.sx2)
** [[Propellerhead Reason Project File]] (.rsn, .reason)
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** [[Propellerhead Reason Project File]] / song file (.reason, .rns, others)
 
** [[Propellerhead Reason ReFill Sound Bank]] (.rfl)
 
** [[Propellerhead Reason ReFill Sound Bank]] (.rfl)
** [[Propellerhead Reason Song File]] (.rns)
 
 
** [[Propellerhead ReCycle Loop File]] (.rex)
 
** [[Propellerhead ReCycle Loop File]] (.rex)
** [[Propellerhead ReCycle REX2 Audio File]] (.rx2)
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** [[Reason Studios REX2 Audio File]] (.rx2)
 
* [[Renoise]]
 
* [[Renoise]]
 
** [[Renoise song]] (.xrns)
 
** [[Renoise song]] (.xrns)
 
** [[Renoise instrument]] (.xrni)
 
** [[Renoise instrument]] (.xrni)
 
** [[Renoise DSP device-chain]] (.xrnt)
 
** [[Renoise DSP device-chain]] (.xrnt)
* Roxio
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* [[ROXIO|Roxio]]
 
** [[DMSE]] (Sound Editor project)  
 
** [[DMSE]] (Sound Editor project)  
 
** [[DMSA]] (Music Disc Creator project)
 
** [[DMSA]] (Music Disc Creator project)
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** [[AU]] (Sun Microsystems audio format)
 
** [[AU]] (Sun Microsystems audio format)
 
** [[Computerized Speech Lab NSP]] (.nsp)
 
** [[Computerized Speech Lab NSP]] (.nsp)
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** [[DiamondWare Digitized]] (.dwd)
 
** [[Bonk]] (lossy/lossless audio compression)
 
** [[Bonk]] (lossy/lossless audio compression)
 
** [[INRS-Telecom file]] (.aud)
 
** [[INRS-Telecom file]] (.aud)
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== Container formats ==
 
== Container formats ==
  
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* [[AAF]] (Advanced Authoring Format)
 
* [[ASF]] (Advanced Systems Format)
 
* [[ASF]] (Advanced Systems Format)
 
* [[Core Audio Format]] (.caf)
 
* [[Core Audio Format]] (.caf)
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* [[MP4]] (MPEG-4 Part 14 media container)
 
* [[MP4]] (MPEG-4 Part 14 media container)
 
* [[Ogg]] (.ogg, .oga, .ogx, .spx, .opus)
 
* [[Ogg]] (.ogg, .oga, .ogx, .spx, .opus)
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* [[OMF Interchange]] (Open Media Framework Interchange format)
 
* [[Qualcomm QCP]] (Purevoice)
 
* [[Qualcomm QCP]] (Purevoice)
 
* [[Rich Music Format]] (.rmf)
 
* [[Rich Music Format]] (.rmf)
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** [[Music Pro Tracker module (MD2)]] (.md2)
 
** [[Music Pro Tracker module (MD2)]] (.md2)
 
** [[Music Pro Tracker module (MPT)]] (.mpt)
 
** [[Music Pro Tracker module (MPT)]] (.mpt)
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* [[The Music Studio|Music Studio, The]] (Activision / Audio Light) (.sng, .song, .mss, .snd, .sound)
 
* [[Nerdtracker II module]] (.ned)
 
* [[Nerdtracker II module]] (.ned)
 
* [[NesTracker module]] (.nest)
 
* [[NesTracker module]] (.nest)
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** [[RIFF MIDI]]
 
** [[RIFF MIDI]]
 
** [[RIFF MIDS]]
 
** [[RIFF MIDS]]
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** [[Sample Vision]] (.smp)
 
** [[Scalable Polyphony MIDI]]
 
** [[Scalable Polyphony MIDI]]
 
** [[SFARK]] (SoundFont archive compressed file)
 
** [[SFARK]] (SoundFont archive compressed file)
** [[SoundFont 1.0]]
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** [[SoundFont 1.0]] (.sbk)
 
** [[SoundFont 2.0]] (.sf2)
 
** [[SoundFont 2.0]] (.sf2)
 
** [[Synthetic Music Application Format]]
 
** [[Synthetic Music Application Format]]
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* [[MSF]]
 
* [[MSF]]
 
* [[MTAF]]
 
* [[MTAF]]
* [[The Music Studio|Music Studio, The]] (Activision / Audio Light) (.sng, .song, .mss, .snd, .sound)
 
 
* [[S98]] (NEC PC-98)
 
* [[S98]] (NEC PC-98)
 
* [[SD]] (ESPS sampled data file)
 
* [[SD]] (ESPS sampled data file)

Revision as of 04:31, 17 January 2021

File Format
Name Audio and Music
Ontology

Musical notation

Musical notation

Electronic Formats concerned with audio and musical data, including sound recording, instrument control, musical notation, etc.

For additional multimedia formats that may contain audio, see Video.

Contents

Introduction

Album formats

(files containing entire music albums, with some track structure)

Audio and sequencer software

Audio recording and sound waves

Chiptune

Configuration files

  • X2A (Yamaha S70xs/S90xs keyboard workstations)

Container formats

Converters

Emulated music

Game audio and music

(see also Game data files)

Identifiers of musical works, recordings, artists, etc.

Metadata formats and related data

Music trackers

(For more on this subject, listen to Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It: The Music Tracker Episode.)

Musical instrument control

Musical notation

Playlists, music libraries, music store downloaders

Programming languages and APIs (audio/music-specific)

Ringtones

Signal processing

These aren't specific file formats, but generic mathematical methods used by other file formats.

Sound card related formats

Speech synthesis

Unclassified (need to move to other categories)

See the Open Cubic Player homepage for a list of demo formats: http://www.cubic.org/player/features.html

See also Piano Rolls (which is under the Physical File Formats).

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