11 Mar
2005
11 Mar
'05
9:45 a.m.
On Fri, 11 Mar, 2005 at 12:44PM +0000, tim hall spake thus:
Last Thursday 10 March 2005 21:08, John Check was
like:
I wasn't really suggesting throwing out the baby. If it's an open format, no
problem. If there are no license problems, I would have thought that building
a command-line interface for SWAMI would really be the way to go.
That does solve some "problems" - it becomes commandline and
more accessible. It doesn't really solve all of them, though: you'd
have to have a program that did everything in a session.
Ideally, we want a way to be able to create soundfonts as they are
needed with commandline tools. You get the accessibility, plus you
can write the patch descriptions in any editor, or from a script,
whatever. You then just compile the description and waves into a
soundfont. This way is much more flexible.
As far as moving patches from one font to
another, hilite the source patch
and right click over the destination for a context menu with "paste".
FWIW, Multiple selections work. What other questions have ye?
Thanks John, I'll try it again then.
How do I get smurf to make any sound? I have ALSA/MIDI working perfectly and
yet I don't seem to be able to hook my external keyboard up so it can trigger
the soundfont I want to edit. Smurf is pre-JACK isn't it?
doesn't help much and I never got round to compiling Swami, it's not
included in AGNULA/DeMuDi, so I'm wondering if it's less-than-free or
what the deal is with it. It strikes me as being dumb to use the .sf2
format if we don't have an accessible editor. Either we help Josh Green
make Swami accessible and distributable or we should seriously consider
some other options.
Well.. the format exists already and is widespread, so while designing a
replacement or reimplementation has it's merits, it'd be throwing out the
baby with the bath water. cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
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