Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] RAM sampler module proposal

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

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 01:14, Josh Green wrote:

Hi Josh,
I do agree on all your points.
Indeed Fluid could provide a solid base for SoundFont playback and it
would be cool if we could collaborate with the Fluid developers to 
produce something that becomes really good and powerful.

Regarding an instrument editor, we strongly need such a beast and you
are probably the most expert in that field. 
I'm grateful that you collaborate on the project since without
a good editor it will be hard to create new patches without resorting
to windows software.
I hope that swami becomes really flexible and that in near future it
will let you build and edit  DLS2 , GIG and other instrument types.

Of course swami needs a powerful playback engine in order to provide
 what you hear is what you get feel.
This means that ideally the instrument's editor and playback engine
 should go hand in hand so that the editor can match the engine's 
capabilities and viceversa.

cheers,
Benno

> > 
> 
> My main interest, as far as contribution to LinuxSampler, is concerning
> patch manipulation and GUI editor front end. I think the goals of Swami
> fit in with this, and welcome any comments agreeing or disagreeing with
> that. I'm not a direct developer of FluidSynth (beyond tracking down
> bugs and suggesting things), so I can't really answer specifics about
> it.
> 
> I was not necessarily suggesting that LinuxSampler should be based off
> of FluidSynth, only that there is probably a bit of information that
> could be gained from existing projects such as that one.
> 
> As to performance, I'm not really familiar with Timidity's SoundFont
> capabilities. It seems a bit crude to me to just compare them side by
> side without knowing what features are enabled. For instance Timidity
> might not have Reverb/Chorus enabled by default. There have also been
> some recent gains in performance in CVS. That being said, I really
> should check out Timidity's capabilities sometime (I have never actually
> had it working, although admittedly I have not tried for a while).
> 
> While performance with FluidSynth leaves a lot to be desired, it does
> have a fairly complete implementation of the SoundFont specification
> (still missing some things though).
> 
> > 
> > cheers
> > Benno
> > 
> 
> Cheers.
> 	Josh Green
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