Linux sampler projects, was Re: [linux-audio-user] Some music made with Linux

[Benno Senoner]

Mark Knecht wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 09:45, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
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>>I'm trying to figure out the difference here between what 
>>ardour/muse/rosegarden do now and what Linux sampler is capable of. 
>>Anyone have more clues?
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>There is no guaranteed relative timing between two notes in GSt or LS.
>If you send two simultaneous MIDI events to GSt they will start when
>they start, just like playing two keys on the piano. They are close to
>each other, but they do not begin at exactly the same time.
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>In Ardour, you can take the same two wave files as samples and place
>them in a track such that their relative timing is known exactly. You
>could, for example, play one wave file and then play the next one such
>that it sounded exactly right. When the first wave file finishes the
>second wave file will start. You will have a sample played on every
>clock cycle.
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>LS and GSt will not do this. They are MIDI based and certainly there is
>jitter and no timing info in MIDI so you just cannot accomplish this
>level of control.
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Not true Mark :)
LS does not have this limitation: although the current implementation 
for now allows only
ALSA MIDI input, Christian added a time stamped event system which was 
planned anyway
 for accuracy reasons and because it will allow LS to be turned into a 
VSTi or AU plugin.
If some VSTi like standard and sequencers will arise under Linux, LS can 
support such features
without needing many modifications to the engine.

cheers,
Benno
http://www.linuxsampler.org