Re: [linux-audio-user] Hardware samplers

On 3/10/06, Cesare Marilungo <cesare(a)poeticstudios.com> wrote: MHO: There's no point in wasting your time. There is a vast commercial market of fine samples out there to be had, and I don't see the open source community jumping on the task of creating their own, at least at the rate that commercial developers do. Unfortunately, not all hardware samplers import all formats, so going with the hardware solution will probably be just as frustrating as the software one. It's a catch-22, with no real good solution. The only viable option is to try to run something like Native Instruments' Kontakt on Linux, which a lot of people do, from what I understand. I would love to see Linuxsampler try to acheive the same level of functionality as Kontakt, which is a fine sample program. Why they are focusing so much on the Giga library and totally ignoring the Akai library is a mystery to me. Linux Audio needs a full-featured sample program *badly*, and Linuxsampler (from looking at the spec sheets) just ain't it (yet). -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com