[LAU] using bfd drum samples in linux

[nescivi]

Hiho,

On Friday 01 June 2007 15:15:39 Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> 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).

You could do it with SuperCollider; not a sampling software per se, but it can 
read and play any number of channels in a file, you can dynamically pan and 
mix them, and hook it all up to respond to midi or other control messages...

sincerely,
marije