Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Suupporting various sample library formats and engines

[Steve H. <S.W...@ec...>]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:13:17 +0000, Phil Kerr wrote:
> Quoting Steve Harris <S.W...@ec...>:
> 
> > Of course, the counter argument too all this is that writing a full
> > sampler engine for every format we want to support fully sucks, no-one
> > probably needs all that functionlaity anyway, and we should just write
> > translators ont a common, comprehensive format and live with the slight
> > conversion loss. <shrug>
> 
> Sounds like a job for DLS at the core and then have import/export modules
> support Akai and other native sampler formats.
> 
> We should be able to stream DLS in and out of the engine as well.

I dont get the impression that DLS is anywhere near rich enough to do this
job, it would need to be something pretty expressive.

Gigasampler uses DLS 2 + proprietary extensions, doesn't it?

- Steve