30 Jun
2006
30 Jun
'06
11:55 a.m.
You are... Linux sampler doesn't support
built-in effects because of what
working with audio is like under linux. JACK (jack audio connection kit)
is an application that allows one to manage connection between various
audio software. This includes linux sampler, but also plugins based on the
LADSPA sdk. You are right to say that there are no built-in effect in
Linuxsampler. It's not a lack of functionnality. It's meant to be like
this because you can connect linuxsampler's output to a effect management
rack like jack-rack (which also benefits of being jack compatible) have
any effect you like applied (and there's loads ! see
http://www.ladspa.org/).
I can appreciate this modularity as much as the next fellow, but having effects
support in the sampler itself is near-critical. Creating sophisticated sounds
using a sampler requires it.
I need to have multiple layers of samples, each filtered and modulated
differently. You can't do this in post-processing. It just isn't possible.
Even supposing Linux Sampler could route sounds out to effects and back in to
the sampler, that would be far to complicated to be even remotely usable without
giving up huge amounts of sampling felixibility.
This is not about applying reverb to a drum kit. It's about having 6 samples
triggered when I press a key on the keyboard, and each sample being filtered,
pitch bended, saturated differently, and modulating all of those parameters
using LFO's, envelopes, and midi parameters. You can't do that using
"outboard"
effects.
-Forest