Yes Ken,
With my previous distro (PARDUS) i had some problems compiling tapeutape. Evet Hitmuri himself coluldn't solve it. But, I'm a Ubuntu user now and i'll have a check for it.

And for Hartmut,
I'll publish my raw samples after finishing them all.
These restricted freedoms in some licenses are also annoying for me. But sometimes i'm using these non fully-free software just to try them. I always dismiss them if i can find free replacements.
As you all know, the common belief among most people is that free software is not quality software. I'm not one of them. There are so many high quality free software. But regretfully saying, proprietary software is still so featured. For example, it seems that no free samplers will equal Native's Kontakt for a while. But since i promised my self not using proprietary software, it seems that i'll have to wait for some more time. :)

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Ken Restivo <ken@restivo.org> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:38:56PM +0300, Arda Eden wrote:
> Yes,
> Giga still seems to be the most featured format for GNU/Linux. Linuxsampler
> works fine. I think gigedit will be my choice.
> Thanks.

There is also tapeutape, which does layering and is very simple and straightforward-- most of it is configured from a conf file.

Fluidsynth is a good choice but I've had way too much trouble with Swami (the soundfont editor) so I don't make my own soundfonts anymore.

If you can deal with all the dependencies required to get GigaEdit built, that looks like the most complete and up-to-date.

Also, look around, there may be an unofficial repository somewhere with binaries for GigaEdit/GigaSampler already there.

-ken

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Arda EDEN
Cumhuriyet University
Faculty of Fine Arts
Department of Music Technology
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