[linux-audio-dev] writing gig files (was: giga files and large soundfonts)

Es geschah am Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2004 15:59 als James Stone schrieb: You know we discussed that several times on the LinuxSampler list. At the moment libgig is only capable to read, not to write gigs. Extending libgig with write support would probably take me a week, so it's not that much. But I would only do so if there are people who are definitely willing to develop an instrument editor for the Giga format or extend an existing one. The Giga format is more powerful than the Akai format, so I would definitely prefer that instead of Akai, but the Giga format has some drawbacks: * most important it's based on RIFF, thus it has (officially) a file size limit of 4GB * it's proprietary * it has many relicts in the format which are simply unused nowadays, means there are dirty redundancies * it's binary only, so you can't easily adjust articulation informations with a simple ASCII editor * the unknown fields in the format = relicts (which aren't necessary to know about when you just read the gig) might cause that the original Gigasampler to not accept the patch file anymore after editing / creating it or at least could cost us some time til it actually accepts it. So like with any proprietary format, at the moment I simply can't guarantee that it will also work right away with the original Gigasampler (I'm quite optimistic though) That's why we came to the decision that it might be better to define our own sampler patch file format (maybe XML based) before we implement write support e.g. for the Giga format. What are your opinions? CU Christian