7 Jun
2006
7 Jun
'06
4:09 p.m.
Hello all,
I'm interested in a Kontakt 2 sample library (the Stradivari by
Garritan, see http://www.garritan.com/stradivari.html) which I think
looks absolutely awesome. But there is a slight problem... I don't
have Kontakt 2, and I'm not sure if this type of library can be used
under Linux.
Does anyone here have any experience using Kontakt 2 libraries under
Linux? If so, how did you go about it? I'm not completely opposed to
buying/using commercial software if necessary, but I would much prefer
an open-source solution.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
-TimH
7 Jun
7 Jun
7:53 p.m.
Tim Howard wrote:
Hello all,
I'm interested in a Kontakt 2 sample library (the Stradivari by
Garritan, see http://www.garritan.com/stradivari.html) which I think
looks absolutely awesome. But there is a slight problem... I don't
have Kontakt 2, and I'm not sure if this type of library can be used
under Linux.
Does anyone here have any experience using Kontakt 2 libraries under
Linux? If so, how did you go about it? I'm not completely opposed to
buying/using commercial software if necessary, but I would much prefer
an open-source solution.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
-TimH
That's something the Linux-Audio world is missing so much... a decent
sampler. All promising projects are stalled because of their developers
not having time to continue. LinuxSampler is indeed very good... but you
can't create your own programs (Kontakt or Halion style)... hopefully
some developers will resuscitate Specimen or other dead project and
take it to a higher level. Come on guys! :-)
Peace,
Hector.
8 Jun
8 Jun
2:18 a.m.
Hallo,
Hector Centeno-Garcia hat gesagt: // Hector Centeno-Garcia wrote:
That's something the Linux-Audio world is missing
so much... a decent
sampler. All promising projects are stalled because of their developers
not having time to continue.
Except fluidsynth.
Ciao
--
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10 a.m.
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo,
Hector Centeno-Garcia hat gesagt: // Hector Centeno-Garcia wrote:
Yes, you are right and sorry for not acknowledging Fluidsynth, but how
does SF compare with GIG or Kontakt format? I have had always the idea
that SF is limited but I might be wrong. Can you program switch keys and
layer crossfades in SF?
cheers!
Hector.
That's something the Linux-Audio world is
missing so much... a decent
sampler. All promising projects are stalled because of their developers
not having time to continue.
Except fluidsynth.
Ciao
11:39 a.m.
Hallo,
Hector Centeno-Garcia hat gesagt: // Hector Centeno-Garcia wrote:
Yes, you are right and sorry for not acknowledging
Fluidsynth, but how
does SF compare with GIG or Kontakt format? I have had always the idea
that SF is limited but I might be wrong. Can you program switch keys and
layer crossfades in SF?
I only use fluidsynth with readymade soundfonts sometimes, so I cannot
say much about this. But Josh Green's Swami is an editor for
soundfonts, you could look at its feature list, if these things are
available.
Ciao
--
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
11:42 a.m.
Hector Centeno-Garcia escribe:
Yes, you are right and sorry for not acknowledging
Fluidsynth, but how
does SF compare with GIG or Kontakt format? I have had always the idea
that SF is limited but I might be wrong. Can you program switch keys and
layer crossfades in SF?
The point of Gigasampler was to be able to stream samples from hard
disk, not needing to store all of an instrument sounds into memory at
a time. This allowed setting up programs hundreds of MB each,
something imposible using hardware samplers (let's include here Sound
Blaster cards supporting SF2.)
But I guess that telling SF2 limiting is something like telling Akai
or E-mu sampler presets format limiting, this is, far from being true.
Cordially, Ismael
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7 Jun
7 Jun
8:11 p.m.
Geoff Beasley would be a great font of information in this area. I
know he ran Kontakt quite a lot earlier. Seems the last I heard
Kontakt 2 was buggy, but I could be wrong about that.
Look up Geoff if he doesn't respond directly to this thread.
cheers,
Mark
On 6/7/06, Tim Howard <tdhoward(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
I'm interested in a Kontakt 2 sample library (the Stradivari by
Garritan, see http://www.garritan.com/stradivari.html) which I think
looks absolutely awesome. But there is a slight problem... I don't
have Kontakt 2, and I'm not sure if this type of library can be used
under Linux.
Does anyone here have any experience using Kontakt 2 libraries under
Linux? If so, how did you go about it? I'm not completely opposed to
buying/using commercial software if necessary, but I would much prefer
an open-source solution.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
-TimH
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