[LAU] Sample converters

[rosea.grammostola]

On 01/02/2011 06:46 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> 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.
>    
Thanks for clarification. Of course I suspected that it would be very 
hard to convert VST1, but I dropped it anyways... You never know what's 
possible these days ;)

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