This allowed you to have gigantic soundfonts (the largest I ever found was 54 MB, but I never used it becasue it sounded aweful ironicly).<BR>After a while software was developed that did the same ...
I have a SB Live! and while I can load huge soundfonts (100+ MB) into memory, it is clear while listening to some midis that only a some of the instruments loaded. I believe the SB Live! had a limit ...