From: pronobozo <pro...@pr...> - 2005-10-25 21:46:35
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Using mp3/ogg samples seems kinda rediculous to me, a waste of time just to fufill 1 or 2 peoples needs. *I use a program that does support importing mp3 samples and I have never had the need for it. *No company supplies sample cds with mp3's on them. *If you are producing anythign for film or tv, you can't have that low quality of an output. What I do use a lot is exporting to mp3, I do wish my application could export as .ogg but it can't. I have to export as wav then use a utiliy to convert formats. I say trash the import of mp3/ogg idea, but add export for mp3/ogg. -pronobozo Dave Fancella wrote: >On Tuesday 25 October 2005 04:12 pm, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > >>IMHO, Ogg import is okay as long as we let users know that we have no >>fun supporting that code and that storing samples on lossy format is >>The Root Of The Evil. >> >> > >Have to agree with the Russkie. I'd like to see H2 support as many possible >drumkit formats as is reasonable, and near as I can tell, it's reasonable to >support both ogg and mp3. > >But I'm with the crowd that prefers a few high quality drumkits that ship with >H2 over a lot of low quality drumkits. > >In the end, after you've mixed half a dozen drum noises, a bass track, a >couple-three-four guitar tracks, some vocals, some keyboards, and >what-have-you, I don't think anybody's gonna be able to tell if you used an >ogg drumkit or flac or <insert favorite format here>. Further, I don't think >anybody's going to care. > >On the other hand, having a feature page that says: > >* Supports all these formats > * ogg > * mp3 > * flac > * au > * midi > * whatever > >Makes a more compelling message and might broaden the user base. So, I guess >it depends on what you want. I think it's pretty clear none of us here will >use it, so you won't be able to derive much satisfaction from it, not >compared to, say, tempo changes, or a tab editor, or what-have-you. :) > >Export to ogg could be considered a necessity, I guess. I can't imagine >wanting to export to ogg and then import from ogg into Audacity or whatever, >but I could see exporting to ogg to have a small file to use while laying >down other tracks. Even so, for the final mixdown I'd still prefer to use a >32 bit float wav file, if there is one. ;) > >Dave > > > >>Anyway, support for TTA and APE lossless codecs would a MUCH better >>thing to have. >> >>Alexandre >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------- >>This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. >>Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course >>Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 >>Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information >>_______________________________________________ >>Hydrogen-devel mailing list >>Hyd...@li... >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel >> >> > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. >Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course >Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 >Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information >_______________________________________________ >Hydrogen-devel mailing list >Hyd...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel > > > |