[LAU] Petri-Foo preview release: 0.0.2

[Renato]

On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 17:16:28 +0100
James Morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> the problem though, is that petri-foo still doesn't allow layering of
> samples within a patch. so say you setup five patches with five
> samples to be in five overlapping velocity ranges. that's five
> different patches.  you don't want five patches, you want to achieve
> the illusion of one patch - ie you probably want to achieve the
> illusion of a single musical instrument as realistically as possible.
> so if you adjust one patch, you probably also need to adjust the other
> four also which could rapidly get out of hand.
> 
> i really don't see or desire for petri-foo to be a sampler to be used
> for realism. you'd be much better served by linux sampler if realism
> is what you're looking to create.
> 

I see that, and I think it's allright; if achieving this thing, which
isn't one of the goals of the project, means bringing major changes to
it, I agree it doesn't make much sense. There is indeed other software
meant to do it - ATM I'm using hydrogen. 

thank you for the talk :)

cheers
renato