Many people have already asked if there will be a full version of sfArk (i.e. functionally equivalent to the Windows version) for MacOs. Well, we are thinking very seriously about producing it, but it depends...
sfArkXT has been released free of charge (for non-commercial use) in order to support the community of SoundFont users on the Mac platform. sfArkXT will decompress files created by the current version of the windows sfArk program. However, we will soon be releasing a new version of sfArk for Windows with additional features (including "lossy" compression and support for DLS and GigaSampler files). That will require an update to sfArkXT for MacOS in order to decompress files created by the newer sfArk application. It also means that development of sfArk for MacOS is something of a moving target.
So, we are asking users of sfArkXT on the Mac to financially contribute to ongoing development of sfArkXT and development of sfArk for the Mac. Any level of contribution would be helpful, but we suggest a figure of between $5 and $10. By contributing, you will help to ensure:
Furthermore, the full version of sfArk for MacOS will not be free, but will carry a small license fee, even for non-commercial use. The expectation is that it will be somewhere around $15 or $20, which we feel is reasonable. However, if you contribute now to sfArkXT and sfArk development, we will regard a contribution of $7.50 or more as a pre-paid "general use" license fee for the Mac version of sfArk when it's available. The "general use" license will cover single-user/single-computer personal and commercial use with the exception of product creation (e.g. compressing SoundFonts for sale or inclusion in a commercial product). This offer only open until such time as sfArk for MacOS is released.
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