11 Aug
2004
11 Aug
'04
4:44 p.m.
Hi,
onsdagen den 11 augusti 2004 21.30 skrev Iván Almada:
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
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)...
Oh, I don't think that is a problem, most soundcards have a selectable input,
you can generally set it to record from several sound sources, including the
wavetable.
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...
Yes, this is a very good use of soundfonts, there are some excellent fonts on
the net for old drum machines!
another question: my soundcard has 4 synths built in
right? does this means i can load 4 soundfont banks at
the same time???
I'm not sure you said what soundcard you had, but with four separate synths it
sounds like an sb-live right?
It was a while since I tried this (I generally run fluidsynth which also uses
soundfonts), I think they use the same "synth engine" though, so they have
the same sounds. You can have a different sound for all 16 midi channels
though, I recall it is somewhat hard to load fonts on all channels though,
quite a bit easier with a softsynth like fluidsynth (especially with a
frontend like Qsynth or the one in MusE).
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...
This is, as Chris mentioned, done with a mixer application, like Jack-rack
(pending that specimen can output to jack, but I think it does). I think you
could use Rosegarden as the mixer application also, I use MusE like this, add
an input and connect the jack-app to it, this limits the number of apps I
need to keep track of and most settings are stored in one place.
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 ?
thanx
ivan.
/Robert
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