[LAU] Sample converters (was: NDK drums, gigafile or SFZ?)

[Paul Davis]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:29 AM, rosea.grammostola
<rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm maybe not even a bad plan to have such a converter as Linuxaudio user.
> All though Kontakt seems to be at version 4
> (http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/?category=1342), which
> isn't supported by extreme sample converter. It says it converts also VSTi,
> dunno if it's possible to convert VSTi to gigasampler for example... Maybe
> you can even use it as VSThost on Linux (?).
> It also supports Renoise, might be a plus for a Linuxaudio user

there is some significant confusion here.

the previous email mentioned a program that is an example of a sample
file format converter. what the program mentioned above does is
something to handle loading of instrument plugins by programs that
don't support a particular plugin API (in this case, VSTi). VSTi is
not a sample file format like GIG or SFZ - its a plugin API. the two
are not in any possible sense equivalent to each other.