27 Sep
2011
27 Sep
'11
6:48 p.m.
If you could document your setup, you'll probably
be able to convince
quite a few future students!
I surely will. BTW, Robin, I also used xjadeo extensively for these
classes, it served me very well for syncing music to image.
The problem is not so much the software; but time and
equipment
(instruments, musicians, studio) to record and create those libraries -
especially orchestral sounds libraries for film scoring can be quite
expensive.
Most producers of these sample-libs do simply not have the means to
support free-software: Publishing the samples in a proprietary format
solves their issue of distribution retaining copy-protection.
I wouldn't object to using commercial apps like Kontakt or PLAY on Linux...
AFAIK sonokinetic.net is or was looking into making
their libs available
for GNU/Linux applications; but I don't know any details.
That would be awesome... I use a lot of Sonokinetic's libraries.
Another Dutch effort:
http://opensymphonia.sourceforge.net/ is an active
project towards that goal.
Wonder how that is coming along... not much there right now...
--
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com
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"In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it,
it would overturn the world."
-- Jelaleddin Rumi