19 Mar
2011
19 Mar
'11
7:59 p.m.
Hi Batz,
Hope that Fedora works out for you - as others have already said, it's
possible to get linux audio working on any distro, but it is more/less
work depending on how well your components are supported.
Yes that's pretty much exactly what I'm
saying. And what I've been trying to
do all along. But for one reason or another, this approach hasn't worked.
I've never been able to get LSP working at all. I had fluid working at one
stage but on a distro who's network was a notwork. Which meant I couldn't
get anything into it. And so far, I've found nothing that can create or edit
samples and banks from scratch. In SoundFont format or anything else for
that matter. This is of course, as important, since I'm not about using
pre-existing samples here. I have a bunch of Yamaha ROMplers if I wanted to
do that. I need to be able to edit and audition samples and settings.
Regarding Linux Sampler - I have never had any issues with it at all
(Debian and Ubuntu). I just followed the instructions on the LS site
and compiled/installed from source. There are several libraries that
need to be compiled/installed before it will work, but it is well
documented on the site. You probably do need to get jack working first
though.. I would recommend qsampler as the GUI frontend to LS.
Regarding creating/editing samples/banks - I'm not sure what you are
after. My workflow (if I wanted to get sample-based instruments into
fluidsynth) would probably be:
1) run jack (using qjackclt)
2) Linux-based synths: zynaddsubfx/bristol/AMS/phasex/... others? with
audio output routed (via jack) to:
3) time-machine (note - if you wanted to make "wet" samples, you could
route the audio output from the synth through something like jack-rack
to run some ladspa effects before routing on to time machine).
4) load audio snippets recorded using time machine into:
5) Audacity - edit samples, normalise, maybe add effects?
6) Make soundfonts using Swami (or if using linuxsampler as playback
engine maybe make gig files using gigedit, or maybe sfx files with
hand-editing a text file).
James