RE: [Linuxsampler-devel] Hi - Very quiet list - my first post

[Mark K. <mk...@co...>]

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> Perhaps it would be beneficial for all us to implement LinuxSampler
>  as a XAP plugin ? who knows ?

I don't think I 'know', but I can report some data.

This could work, in some applications, but (for me anyway) it might have
limited appeal.

In the GigaStudio world the sample libraries are huge, mostly running
between 1-2GB per library. I use 10-15 of them at a time, so there is no way
to put this in DRAM. This puts a pretty high stress on the underlying disk
subsystem, which is fine as long as GSt is on it's own computer where the
PCI bus and audio subsystem are available to do the work. So, in replacing
something like GSt or Halion, my guess is that LinuxSampler wants to look
mostly like a stand along application. That said, it would be very cool to
be able to send it control commands via the MIDI stream, or over Ethernet,
from my main DAW. GSt doesn't support much of that today. (If at all...I
don't use it.)

If we were looking at a trimmed down version of the technology which
operated more like Battery, then I think that using the underlying sampler
technology as both a plugin or a stand alone app running on the same DAW, if
most of the samples fit in memory. (Easy for drums, not so easy for piano)

I personally think a Battery like app would be a great starting point for
this sort of technology, to be followed up by a full-blown sampler app
later.

Cheers,
Mark