11 Aug
2004
11 Aug
'04
9:07 p.m.
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 03:30 pm, Iván Almada wrote:
About SoundFonts:
(reply to robert's soundfonts rants)
i havent used soundfonts at all (never), i was
planning to use them as a last resort not because
everybody has a bad attitude towards sf, but what
youve said that theyre monolithic, when im composing
i like to make new samples and load them in-the-fly to
a sampler and then process the sample more with fx and
stuff... and again... render to wave and then load- it
again... maybe change some rythmic structures and then
render again to audio and maybe the complete audio
chunk load it as a whole audio track in ardour or some
audio seq software with mixer to further process!!!
thats the way i like to make music, so the point is
Non-traditionally.
that soundfount could let me achieve this easily? or
is it difficult to compile your own soundfonts... the
other problem i think ill encounter is that sequencers
cant record the audio directly from your soundcards
wavetable... (please correct if im wrong)...
Soundfonts are just a unified format/architecture for sample playback.
In this case "sample" means wavetable synthesis.
You can use them for storing loops, and raw samples..
You can do a lot of your comping nondestructively. You may have to learn
"another instrument" as it were, because you'll have to work with the
available tools for soundfont editing.
on the other hand ive been searching for sf and ive
realized that maybe they will be very useful to me
because you can load pre-made drum kits like a TR-909
for example and use them easily just as if you had the
real midi module...
Probably easier, because you have potentially better interface with a
computer.
another question: my soundcard has 4 synths built in
right? does this means i can load 4 soundfont banks at
the same time???
Yes
on the other hand ive realized specimen is a great
sampler: everything i need (preview .wav, map
different regions, loop point editor, filter, though
more different filters would be very very nice...) and
i didnt know you could use it directly from rosegardan
through alsa midi , that excelent, just as if
specimen was a plug in, i can trigger samples from my
midi keyboard with an inperceptible latency, now i
would like to know several more things, like how to
apply ladpsa plugins to the sampler for example if i
want to use some of the ladpsa filters... how is the
audio routed from specimen back into the midi host
mixer (it displays audio in a channel called rec... )
but it has no slots for plug ins...
anyone knows how to do this??? could this be done? or
do i have to record the audio and then process it in a
standard audio track ?
Use Specimen's jack driver, then patch through jack-rack
or another plug-in host
thanx
ivan.
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