19 Feb
2011
19 Feb
'11
10:10 p.m.
Hi Gabriel!
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield
<gabrbedd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday, February 19, 2011 12:59:37 pm allcoms
wrote:
It was all sounding like I could get away with using composite for my
intended purpose but after looking at drumkit.xml I see that
instrument id 0 (kick) is note 36 yet this isn't defined as a
parameter so I presume I can't assign arbitrary note values to
instruments at present?
Is it true that h2kits are limited to 32 instruments?
Thanks G!
I'm wondering if a straight sf2 to h2kit
would actually
be possible now. I've not been able to find any docs on
the h2kit format but through browsing the hydrogen
forums I'm now concerned that h2kits are limited to 32
instruments/samples/notes? On top of this the minimum
note number I seem to be able to trigger under composite
is MIDI note 36 (C2) so it would be a bit confusing if I
have to transpose notes in the conversion. So - Gabriel
or any of the hydrogen devs - would it be possible to
convert a piano sf2 (for example) to a h2kit without
sacrificing a number of octaves?
SF2 is a general purpose format for creating multi-sampled
instruments.
H2's drumkits are a specialized and much more limited format
for creating simple playback triggers with 1 Note == 1 Drum.
...so, converting SF2 to H2 is not a straightforward
conversion... and would require some clever logic and
assumptions about what the SF2 "is" and how they "should be"
in H2.
The drumkits in H2 are specified in an undocumented-but-
easy-to-grok XML file. (E.g. see
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/drumkits/GMkit/drumkit.xml) You
put all the audio data in WAV and FLAC files, and then use
the drumkit.xml to declare how they fit into the kit.