On 01/01/2011 01:57 PM, Leigh Dyer wrote: 
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 00:11 +0000, Q wrote:
  
rosea.grammostola wrote:
    
Hi,

Is there a gigafile or SFZ file for the Natural Drum Kit available?


Thanks.

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According to the website, I assume it comes as WAVs and you'd have to 
map it yourself: 
(http://www.naturaldrum.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=60)

"We recommend using NDK in conjunction with Native Instruments' Kontakt 
2 or Steinberg's HALion 3 soft-sampler."

It's always possible that someone, somewhere has already mapped it, if 
you look around.
    
If Kontakt 2/HALion 3 mappings already exist, this might do the job --
it can convert from those formats (and various others) to SFZ and
GigaStudio formats:

http://www.extranslator.com/index.php?page=exsc

It's a Windows app, but there's a free demo and it seems to run under
Wine.

Hmm maybe not even a bad plan to have such a converter as Linuxaudio user. All though Kontakt seems to be at version 4 (http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/?category=1342), which isn't supported by extreme sample converter. It says it converts also VSTi, dunno if it's possible to convert VSTi to gigasampler for example... Maybe you can even use it as VSThost on Linux (?).
It also supports Renoise, might be a plus for a Linuxaudio user.

Which sample type is supported best by Linuxsampler, gigasampler, gigastudio 1, 2 or 3?

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