After those things, the format itself is the most important. I believe the most useful format for long term storage is: SFZ.
Back in 2023, I laid out my arguments for SFZ in a thread at KVRAudio:
https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8691650#p8691650
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SFZ has many advantages for future-proofing:
* There are many available SFZ parsers--most of which are open source
* There are many sets of tools for editing and creating SFZ files
* The Samples themselves are available
* SFZ can be imported into many samplers
etc...etc...etc...
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There is one drawback that people complain about with SFZ, and today I want to share a discovery I have made that resolves this one problem. Most SFZ instruments are unexpressive. This is not because of the format itself, but rather it is because of the difficulty of adding MIDI CC information into the SFZ instrument file.
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If when creating new instruments in SFZ format, the creator of the instrument doesn't know how to add the needed information to make the SFZ file capable of expression, then the instrument remains unexpressive...lifeless. This is not the fault of the SFZ, but because the creator doesn't have the programming skills.
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But, what if someone created a template that everyone could use? What if all a SFZ creator had to do was append this template to the top of the SFZ text file that the instrument creator defined? What if this template not only made the SFZ instrument MIDI CC capabile, but also provided GUI controls to the Sforzando or Sfizz plugin? Wouldn't this make SFZ more expressive?
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