A group of us are experimenting with EMU System Sound Fonts (TM) as a
means for getting more realistic sounding synthesis of band organs and
the like.  The motivations vary, some wanting to be able to do editing
of arrangements and get it right the first time, and others wanting to
be able to listen to arrangements without having to own the
instrument.

There's a software development kit available for downloading free from
Creative Labs.  It supports the SoundBlaster AWE-32 which contains an
EMU-Systems 8000 loadable wavetable synthesis chipset.  Included in
this development kit is a set of documentation for the API (Application
Programming Interface) for the SoundBlaster, a set of library routines
implementing the API, and a rather detailed description of the
EMU-8000.  All of this is in Adobe Acrobat file format (.PDF) which can
be read with the "read-only" version of Adobe Acrobat, which may also
be downloaded for free.

I wanted Robbie Rhodes to see the technical description, but he didn't
yet have Acrobat on his Mac.  Since his net connection is erratic, I
tried to send Acrobat to him as an enclosure using Eudora.  The file(s)
were large, but not so large that it should have taken "that long" to
send them.  What was going on is that Foxtail ran out of disk space.  I
didn't notice until around 6pm that things were haywire.

Its possible that articles sent to the digest during the day today may
have disappeared into the bit bucket.  If you didn't see your article
this evening, please resend it.

Sorry for any inconvenience!

Jody