[LAU] using bfd drum samples in linux

[Brett W. McCoy]

On 6/1/07, porl sheean <porl42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi everyone. this is something that has been annoying me for sometime. is it
> at all possible to use the samples from a copy of bfd in any sampling
> software in linux? they are all wav format files, but each file contains
> (from memory) 11 tracks, one for each microphone. the idea is that you mix
> and pan each microphone after assembling the kit. i would prefer not to have
> to mixdown each drum sample at each velocity (there are a LOT of them) so if
> anyone knows of a sampler that can load (or import, i don't mind building a
> sample bank) and play back multichannel wav files with dynamic mixing and
> panning of each track i would much appreciate it :)

I don't think there are any samplers under Linux that can do that...
your best bet is to probably use the samples in Hydrogen... but you
won't get any of the fancy stuff BFD provides (although you can create
velocity layers in Hydrogen).

-- Brett
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