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These are formats that require an external file to house their instruments.
 
These are formats that require an external file to house their instruments.
  
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Revision as of 15:38, 31 August 2016

Some audio formats include their instruments, others keep them in a separate file, while others are digital recordings which in which the instrumentation is intrinsically included.

Combined

Formats with combined instruments are typically those that contain raw information sent directly to an audio chip to be processed. Because of this, the instrument definitions and the musical notes cannot easily be separated.

External

These are formats that require an external file to house their instruments.

Internal

These formats have their instrumentation built into each music file.

Intrinsic

When a format records digital audio, the instruments are intrinsically included in the file because the recording is of the instruments. Instrument banks are also included in this category as they are nothing but instrument definitions.

N/A

This is for formats that don't actually house audio data but are included for other reasons.

Optional

Formats that optionally allow for instruments to be included internally are in this category.

Unknown