Things are still happening (was: Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Hi - Very quiet list - my first post)

[Josh G. <jg...@us...>]

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 08:09, David Gerard Matthews wrote:
> Hey Mark,
>                 I've been on this list for a few months as well and 
> noticed it's kind of died down.  Not sure what's up with that - it was 
> very active around November, iirc.  There has been some discussion about 
> Swami, but I think the real hope for sampling under Linux might be XAP 
> (discussed extensively on linux-audio-dev.)  I also use Gigasampler a 
> bit and seeing as I'd like to dump Windoze altogether I'm hoping for a 
> way to use my libraries in Linux (like my really nifty Akai-format 
> prepared piano CD...)
> -dgm
> 
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> 

Swami is still going.. Unfortunately with just me as the developer it is
going somewhat slow. I've been a little burnt out on it lately so I'm
kind of taking a break (sometimes I find that I'm almost working on it
full time). This is hard when I realize I actually have to make money to
live (I haven't received 1 donation yet for Swami, although it hasn't
really been massively released yet.. Maybe the PayPal link is broken or
something, could someone test it? He he..). It would be cool if the
Linux audio community could actually make a living on open source
software development. We need to come up with other methods of raising
money though (grants, money pools, etc).

I already started implementing DLS2 support in libInstPatch. There is
now a generic RIFF parser that can be used for SoundFont files, DLS2 and
other RIFF based formats. The GUI is becoming more pluggable to make
plugging new formats into it rather easy (making a good API design takes
a lot of effort though).

So things are still progressing, just to assure all of you of that. I've
kept quiet because the development version is still not quite usable
(too much in development). The GTK1.2 branch works great though, and the
CVS version works with the most recent FluidSynth (well at least last
time I checked, FluidSynth is also undergoing massive API changes).

So. Keep the Linux music/audio dream alive and let everyday make it more
of a reality :) Cheers.
	Josh Green