14 Oct
2011
14 Oct
'11
8:44 a.m.
On 13/10/11 11:47 PM, allcoms wrote:
Thanks for pointing out your guide Leigh - I'd not
seen that. I think
I'll have to have another go with LS to triple check it still irritates
the hell out of me for at least the following reasons:
1 - Its not in the repos of most distros due to licensing probs
2 - Its a bitch to compile
Can't really disagree with either of those :) I do wish it was easier to
install -- I hope some good unofficial repositories show up once there's
a new stable release out.
3 - I never got qsampler to work
I've never had much luck with it either, though apparently the version
in svn now works better, and has some SFZ support.
4 - Fantasia is a horribly slow, bloated java app - yuck!
It is a bit slow, but I rarely have to run it these days. I used to have
to run it once a session, just to reload my saved sampler setup. Now I
don't even need to do that -- since I'm using the LinuxSampler LV2
plugin, my sampler settings are all stored as part of my Ardour session,
and automatically restored when I load that session.
5 - Like composite, iirc, it also lacks the ability to
load simple wavs
if thats all you want otherwise you need to mess about converting stuff
to .gig or .sfz first
It does, yes, but the SFZ format is really quite simple. For a simple
case of mapping a single sample across the keyboard, something like this
should suffice:
<region>
sample=sample.wav
pitch_keycenter=C3
lokey=C1
hikey=C5
You can add all sorts of options to that (envelopes, filters, etc.), but
that'll get you started.
Linuxsampler would be good for some use cases if
points 1 and 2 didn't
plague it but we still need a simple LV2 sampler that can be easily
redistributed and packaged for people who just want to trigger wav drum
sounds or whatever.
Yep, that would definitely still be handy. For now I'm still using
Hydrogen to host any drum sounds that I create (routing each Hydrogen
instrument's outputs separately to Ardour), but I may soon start making
SFZ files for them instead.
Thanks
Leigh