Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] A Modest Proposal - Sampler Support for JSynthLib

[Craig A. V. <cr...@vo...>]

Joe Emenaker wrote:

> Craig A. Vanderborgh wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone:
>>
>> I just got JSynthLib downloaded and working on my Win2K system.  I'm 
>> interested in writing a patch editor for the Mirage, which I think I 
>> can figure out how to do.
>>
>> When it suddenly occurred to me:  Why couldn't JSynthLib also support 
>> samplers?  Obviously JSynthLib is already more than capable of 
>> managing sampler patches for "program data".  But what about the 
>> wavesample data?
>
>
> This has been proposed and, as I recall, most of the JSL folk were in 
> support of it. The conversation stopped when the discussion turned to 
> what format to save the samples in.
>
Well that's kind of silly, isn't it now??  After all, libst.a from "sox" 
is totally unencumbered and supports the reading/writing of just about 
any sample file format you could care to name.  Why pick a sample format 
if you can have them all?  Why is this even an issue??

Regards,
craig

> So, I think it is already a "to do" item, but we've got some other, 
> more pressing bugs/features to work on, first.
>
> - Joe
>