[LAU] Sample converters

[Dominic Sacré]

On Sunday 02 January 2011 19:36:51 rosea.grammostola wrote:
> On 01/02/2011 06:46 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> > 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 ;)

Well, according to its manual, Extreme Sample Converter can "convert" 
VSTi to GIG and other sample formats. But this works simply by recording 
the plugin's audio output for a certain number of notes, velocities, 
etc.
This kind of conversion works reasonably well for some instruments, but 
many will suffer significantly from the limitations of sampled formats. 
There's no way to change a synth's settings in a sampled instrument, and 
a lot of detail and nuances of the original sound will be lost.

That said, you can do basically the same thing on Linux using Synthclone 
(http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/).


Dominic