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

[David O. <da...@ol...>]

On Monday 20 January 2003 18.15, Mark Knecht wrote:
> David & David,
>    Was that the name of a band in the late 80's maybe? I must go
> look.

Well, I was just in my early teens back then, so I had nothing to do=20
with it... ;-)


>    Well, if it served no other purpose, at least my 1st posted
> created a little bit of traffic on the list, right? ;-)

Yeah, that's nice - and even Benno chimed in; long time no see! :-)


[...]
>    As always, I probably have too many ideas, but personally I'd
> really like to see a sample player somewhat like Battery for Linux.
> I think that it's a much more simple interface, requires far fewer
> system resources to work well, could use Wave files easily. I just
> think overall it would get a lot of use up front. The existing
> sample players, like iiwusynth and timidity are not, IMO, really
> very good for dealing with drum sets.

Well, I'm not very familiar with Battery, but maybe Audiality will be=20
able to do what you want rather easily? It's basically a sampler with=20
an integrated mixer. Although the primary source of waveforms is a=20
script driven off-line synth (modular synth style), it can load and=20
process audio files as well. (Which is a feature that remains from=20
Audiality's days as a games sound FX engine.)

As to UI, the scripts is as close as you get right now. There's no=20
GUI at all for it yet, but I have detailed plans for an editor.

That said, I've created almost a hundred "useful" sounds while=20
playing around with the synth. A standard text editor turns out to=20
work a lot better than I ever imagined it could! :-) (Though, my=20
previous synth programing experience is mostly with tiny LCDs and=20
buttons, and a few Windoze synth editors that only made things *more*=20
awkward.)

Anyway, Audiality is still in early beta, and there are a bunch of=20
features that need to be implemented before it's truly useful. I=20
wrote some demo songs a long time ago, so it's not *totally* useless,=20
but let's just say, the sampler part is *really* rudimentary.


[...]
>    I haven't paid too much attention to XAP as I think it's too
> much below the hood for someone like me. I'm glad to see that you
> are thinking of samplers with it. I can tell folks are interested.

We're thinking of *everything* that could process or generate audio,=20
though the primary target is synths and samplers. (We already have=20
LADSPA for effects and JACK for applications/"large scale plugins".)=20

Think of XAP as a truly Free VSTi or DXi alternative.


//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

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