31 Dec
2010
31 Dec
'10
2:29 a.m.
On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 21:31 +0000, Andrew C wrote:
Also, I had this discussion about SF2 and SFZ on the
linuxsampler
mailing list a while back. Long and short of it is that SF2 is an
older, monolithic file format with limited modulation capabilities
designed by EMU/Creative whereas SFZ is quite a recently (and open
format, like SF2) developed format that seperates the .wav
multisamples from the programming bits and is designed by
Roland/Cakewalk (but bears no relation to the Soundfont format).
SFZ is really going to be the future of LinuxSampler, I think, simply
because of its non-monolithic design. Commercial samplers like EXS24 and
Kontakt use much the same design, with a bunch of WAV files and a small
mapping file, so all that's needed to make a Kontakt library playable in
LinuxSampler is for someone to make a matching SFZ mapping. I can't see
any reason why such a mapping wouldn't be freely distributable, so as a
community we could build up a collection of downloadable SFZ mappings
for popular commercial libraries.
You can already find SFZ mappings for some libraries, eg:
http://www.drealm.info/sfz/
Of course, building such mappings isn't an easy job, but if it can be
done once and distributed widely, it greatly eases the burden.
Thanks
Leigh
Andrew.
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Dave Phillips
<dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Yeah, and I'd happily go with an Open Source sampler if there was an
Open Source sampler. LS isn't and I don't know of an alternative. I
use what I use because it works and it's long since paid for and not
necessarily because I want to.
Cheers,
Mark
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http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user Mark Knecht wrote:
It's a guess on my part Dave but I think the two I suggested I'd buy:
EXS24 and Kontakt. I have no idea if either is Open Source. Different
vendors do support them so there must be some spec for it. Bardstown
supports lots of formats. How can a 1 guy company do that without open
specs?
I don't know. Possibly not. GigaStudio is dead. A focus by the LAU
Sampler community to remain *.gig focused may cause problems longer
term.
I own GigaStudio 3 & 4 but also other samplers as well, as dedicated
sample players. Over time I'm slowly migrating to other sample file
formats for that reason.
Hi Mark,
I'm curious, what formats currently dominate the Windows sampler worlds ?
Are any of them open-source formats ?
Also, in your opinion is SFZ/SF2 a decent
replacement for GIG ?
No idea what those are? Some sort of Sound Font derivative?
All my samplers are Windows-based so I don't
face these issues.
Until they die too. :)