[Linuxsampler-devel] Fwd: from Paul Kellett

[Benno S. <be...@ga...>]

Hi,
I'm forwarding an excerpt of a mail from Paul Kellett he sent me.
He said he will help us out with sample library importing
(he is the guy that wrote the AKAI sample format docs you find on the
web)
and other DSP issues. Yay !

cheers,
Benno

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> I discussed some issues on IRC with Steve H. and Juan L. about
supporting
> multiple sample formats and the debate is if it is more convenient to
> implement standard engines (AKAI s1000 , gigasamp. etc) in a static
way
> or use the audio unit compiler we have in mind and design these
"standard"
> engines using a graphical editor.

Not sure I understand this...

But there are 2 stages which can be separate:

 - loading the program(patch) and sample information

 - accessing the sample data, which could just be a list of
   where to find the sample data and what format the data is in,
   and not care if it is an individual Akai sample, or part of a
   .GIG file.

Maybe there could be an intermediate program format, which any
foreign formats need to be converted to, but the sample data
stays in the original file(s).  I'm not sure how important
export to foreign formats is?

It looks like lots of sample libraries for Giga are using all it's
triggering options, to have different "pages" of samples available
by MIDI control, so this would be important to people wanting an
alternative to Gigasampler.

Paul
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