23 Jan
2003
23 Jan
'03
5:57 p.m.
If I would change something it would be in an
additional soundfont (that's
if the samples themself are changed) for the Audigy (2)
initially. Regarding
44.1 Khz samples, we can downsample with anti-aliasing during the
installation process if needed.. When not changing the sampled themself
changes can be made in realtime in hardware/software with filters and EQ
settings.
I agree it should be a new soundfont.
What you would prefer when you would buy a piano like
Grandest Piano if it
offered soundbank in multiple formats ? One installer that installs all
formats in one go and might write 1.5 gig of soundbanks or more to your
harddisk or.... One data file for which somebody has to pay and a lot of
free downloadable installers for each format ? I'm asking since we can't
make an installer with the current installation system which allows you to
install in several formats since we rely on a 'patching' system
(like DeltaX under Linux) for part of the installation proces..
If a person would select multiple formats we'll need a lot of patchfiles
to cope with this.
<SNIP>
There will be a 220 MB version at maximum (initially) and several smaller
versions down to 40 MB (only one sampled velocity layer) for maximum
compatibillity with any system..
Until such time as we have a stream-from-disk sample player for Linux,
I think that 200MB is probably close to the upper limit on anything I'd
really use loaded in memory. I tend, as I have said, to use a lot of
sounds and MIDI tracks, so I can't really load GigaBytes of soundfonts.
To me it makes sense to have a fairly small soundfont for composing. Just
20-30MB, so that most of the time I don't use too much memory. When it
comes time to record audio, I'd like to load up the largest, best sounding
sounds I can find. At that time, I might record only a single track at a
time to Ardour, and then mix the final sound as standard audio work.
It surely helps.. It basically allows me to listen to
several types of
pianos (whether I like them or not) and see if it's possible to make
variations similar to well known pianos.. Not that these would
sound exactly
like them but it allows for pianos with different types of sound.
Michael Post does a lot of different piano libraries that are represented
on that page. He uses similar equipment for all the libraries, but records
the pianos in whatever room he gets them in. They all sound very different.