[LAU] Rhodes for LinuxSampler?

[James Stone]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Leigh Dyer <lsd at wootangent.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 20:47 -0600, Josh Lawrence wrote:
>> hey everybody!
>>
>> I'm very happy to report that I have linuxsampler running on my laptop
>> now, and I can't wait to try it out.  as was mentioned in leigh's post
>> about drums, I've downloaded analogue drums and the salamander grand
>> piano, but I really would like a rhodes patch.  can anyone point me to
>> a good rhodes that would work well in linuxsampler?
>>
>> (I'm familiar with the learjeff rhodes out there on the 'net; I wonder
>> if it would load up ok?  can't hurt to try...)
>
> In theory, LinuxSampler CVS should load the jRhodes3 soundfont, but I
> had trouble doing so here -- LinuxSampler crashed when I tried. It might
> just be a problem with the build of LinuxSampler I have here, but I get
> the impression that the SF2 backend for LinuxSampler isn't as mature as
> the GIG and SFZ backends.
>
> However, this tool (it's a free-as-in-beer, closed-source, Windows app,
> but it worked just fine under Wine for me) can convert SF2 to SFZ:
>
> http://audio.clockbeat.com/sfZed.html
>
> I gave it a shot on the jRhodes3 SF2 file, and the resulting SFZ works
> well in my LinuxSampler CVS build. If anyone wants a copy of this, email
> me off-list and I'll send you a link. If there's enough interest, I'll
> email the author and see if he's happy for me to release it publicly.
>

Interesting, but (I'm not being sarcastic here) what's the point? Why
not use fluidsynth to play soundfonts, seeing as that is what it was
designed for??

James