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

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

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 09:51, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> Markus,
> As I said earlier, I haven't, in the past, been a big fan of sound fonts,
> not because I know anything about them technically. Just because the Windows
> based SF players haven't sounded as good as GSt. When this conversation
> started yesterday, I was (and still am) a proponent of doing this app using
> the LinuxSampler engine. I'm not asking or even suggesting that anyone
> change anything that exists in the Linux SF app space to do what I want to
> do. On the other hand, I think peopl eare askign me to use SF's, and I'm not
> sure they'll work.
> 
> Nor do I know how to map my GSt libraries to one. If Josh wants to tackle
> that problem in Swami, then I would certain be happy to help out and do a
> bit of testing.
> 

I'm still doing API work in the area of the GUI to make it easy to
plugin new patch formats. Once this work is done (and a few other
things) I will start looking into adding DLS2, .gig, Akai, Gus and
perhaps GSt (I don't know anything about it yet, so not sure how hard
that would be).

> Also, please understand I'm not trying to give a complete use of this
> feature in GSt and do not suggest that my list is complete. I know it isn't.
> I'm just hoping that I'm getting the key switch idea across so that you
> developers can make it real. If there is continued interest in the
> Linux-Sampler community to support GSt libraries (a stated goal) then this
> threshold will eventually have to be crossed.
> 
> In GSt all of the stuff you mention, and more, is supported. I believe that
> in GigaSampler it is not all supported, however, GS is pretty much gone now
> except as a CD in sound card distributions.
> 

I think a lot of this could be tackled with some of the "session state"
saving/restoring ideas that have been discussed on LAD before. If you
had a MIDI processor with scripting support, etc. You could create
little filters and actuators and save them along with a project which
could then be loaded at a later date. I don't think we need to worry
about supporting every single feature in a patch format (at least when
it comes to MIDI processing). Having a Linux Audio/Music session
format/standard would be cool. Cheers.
	Josh Green