2 Jan
2011
2 Jan
'11
10:34 p.m.
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Q
<lists(a)quirq.ukfsn.org> wrote:
<SNIP>
Well, maybe less hassle in producing a gigfile in that way, but a whole
world of pain when the lawyers come knocking on your door for having
ripped off someone else's samples and repackaging them :-)
I suppose if you do it for yourself and don't ever redistribute no-one
would be any the wiser.
But seriously, having recently created umpteen simple gigfiles from
scratch (with limited range of notes and no velocity layers), I can see
your point -- creating those things takes a lot of hard work and skill.
Which makes me even more incredulous at the cheapness at which some are
sold in sales.
If/when Giga finally dies, it would be a shame for all that work to go
down the pan when such effort has gone into skillfully sampling those
instruments and conversion is a way that those sampled instruments (for
I think they have a character in their own right) might live on, even if
only privately for one user.
Q
>> That said, you can do basically the same
thing on Linux using Synthclone
>> (http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/).
<SNIP>
As for converting VSTi's, whilst what Paul
says about it being an API is
true, it depends on the VSTi as there are many which are basically just
sample players with a few filter effects added on. There are a few Mellotron
ones which spring to mind. Hell, that's what the GForce M-Tron, M-Tron Pro
and Virtual String Machine (ARP Solina et al) are, with huge great sample
libraries attached.
I've never even seen a real Solina so I didn't know how to compare.
The sounds are nice enough for what it is so for me it's great.
I think if the software above could be set up to run unassisted,
sampling ever note at lots of velocities, etc., then someone would be
on their way to an easy gig file like the SampleTekk stuff without all
the hassle folks went through in the past.
- Mark