9 Oct
2002
9 Oct
'02
11:57 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 05:07:01AM -0500, Sage wrote:
The real problem is the need to find good sounds to be
powered by the midi,
though. Softsynths, wavetable synths, samplers... right now I use several
VST instruments: Model-E (a minimoog emulator), The Grand (a very realistic
piano), B4 (emulates the Hammond B3 organ) and the Cheez Machine (emulates
the Arp Solina). So I only use midi to emulate real instruments... and
unless I go with iiwusynth and soundfonts (a perfectly useable, but sorely
inferior solution, if you ask me), there's really no alternative.
There was talk a while back about a sampler-in-progress (EVO?)
which would (does?) support Gigasampler files, so you could buy
a Gigapiano disk and use it in linux. For the others, not sure.
There are various interesting emulators if you dig around:
e.g. there are some emulator patches for Pd, though I dont' recall
which synths; and Bristol looks interesting, though
I don't know if it supports jackd yet:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/bristol/?topic_id=249
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