These are used as instruments for music.dat (which is actually a MIDI file and has nothing to do with the game's soundtrack, which is in Red Book format (played from the CD)). sbk files (sbk standing for SoundFont Bank): bullfrog.sbk, atmos1.sbk, and atmos2.sbk, each containing dungeon-themes wave files. Dungeon Keeper utilises SoundFont technology to produce atmospheric sound effects. It was originally developed by Creative Labs and Emu-Systems.

SoundFont | Dungeon Keeper Wiki | Fandom - SoundFont is a brand name and file format for sample-based MIDI synthesis instruments.

- An old and good AWE32-compatible SoundFont utility.

jnoisetype - supports parsing and displaying a given SoundFont file as text, and extracting samples from SoundFont files.

Extreme Sample Converter - a multifunctional audio software, browser, player, and program editor with advanced conversion between different sample formats.

Files in this format conventionally have the file extension of.

The first and only major device to utilize this version was Creative's Sound Blaster AWE32 in 1994. A specification for this version was never released to the public. The original SoundFont file format was developed in the early 1990s by E-mu Systems and Creative Labs. SoundFont banks can conform to standard sound sets such as General MIDI, or use other wholly custom sound-set definitions. A SoundFont bank also contains other music synthesis parameters such as loops, vibrato effect, and velocity-sensitive volume changing. A SoundFont bank contains base samples in PCM format (similar to WAV files) that are mapped to sections on a musical keyboard. SoundFont-compatible synthesizers allow users to use SoundFont banks with custom samples to render their music. To render such files, sample-based MIDI synthesizers use recordings of instruments and sounds stored in a file or ROM chip. MIDI files in themselves don't contain any sounds, rather they contain only instructions to render them.

It was first used on the Sound Blaster AWE32 sound card for its General MIDI support. - a brand name that collectively refers to a file format and associated technology that uses sample-based synthesis to play MIDI files.

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