18 Mar
2005
18 Mar
'05
9:48 p.m.
Il giorno ven, 18-03-2005 alle 19:40 +0000, Daniel James ha scritto:
Always from a mail of Josh Green 2005-01-03 in swami-devel mailiglist:
I"m getting ready to unveil an online instrument database for sharing
instruments. It already supports GigaSampler, SoundFont and DLS. It
needs a bit of beta testing though before going public. I"ll definitely
announce it on the Swami devel list when I could use some testers.
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Probably there is only need the hard disk space for uploading samples, the better choice
for distributing free giga collection could be done done trough bittorrent files on the
site.
Probably oneshotsample could collaborate with this archive of Josh Green (swami
developer)?
Cheers,
Stefano
Hi Stefano,
Nice to hear that linuxsampler is improving, I hope they provide an API
for it to be used generically for other than GigaSampler files (I must
admit I"m biased towards that proprietary format). There is still a bit
of work to do to add GigaSampler support to libInstPatch/Swami. I"m
working now to get Swami 1.0 fully functional, and that in itself still
needs a bit of work. Once that is done I will look into adding more
complete GigaSampler support. Right now it will just load it as a DLS
file (samples are parsed and instrument names, but not much else), and
there is no save support for GigaSampler yet.
I think that swami already support editing of gig
file.
According to the website, that feature is in the development version.
From a mail of Josh Green 2005-01-03 in swami-devel mailiglist: It could be
posted a tutorial on oneshotsampler about creating good
Gigafile instead of simple wave file.
If someone from the linuxsampler project has that
information then it
would good to disseminate it - maybe as a 'quicktoot'. I personally
have some good microphones, and record plenty of real instruments
that could provide samples.
Good idea.
If linuxaudio
consortuim could give the hardware infrastructure for
hosting Gigafiles in oneshotsampler we could have an usable
sampling free software/free sampler banks infrastructure
I'm afraid linuxaudio.org does not currently own any hardware which it
could donate, but you could try asking member projects. AGNULA Libre
Music hosts complete works, but I don't think they are doing samples
as yet.
If you're talking about the really large samples, I think they might
exceed disc space and bandwidth limitations quite quickly on any
hosted machine. Perhaps a peer-to-peer infrastructure based around
BitTorrent would work.