Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] AKAI samplelibrary loader is online

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

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 03:20, Benno Senoner wrote:
> Hi, I'm forwarding a mail from Sebastien, he has put online
> his AKAI samplelibrary loader which will be useful for AKAI import
> in LinuxSampler. 
> Josh, is the import and of AKAI in Swami fleasible ?
> AKAI S1000/2000 does not use files  but reads the samples directly from
> CD. Alternatively one can dump the CD's image to a file 
> (cat /dev/cdrom >file.img :-) ) and then work on that image.
> Anyway being CD image based, it is not easy to write 
> manipulated data to HD (one would need to create a whole image) but I
> think read-only support for AKAI is enough since it allows you to
> reuse old AKAI CDs. If you need to edit them I guess it would be better
> to convert the sample to a newer format (like GIG) and do the editing
> on that format.
> 
> cheers,
> Benno
> http://linuxsampler.sourceforge.net
>  

Yeah I think it is feasible :) Of course it might make sense to use this
library directly instead of implementing it in libInstPatch, depending
on how flexible its API is. Then again it might be more convenient if
the code was part of libInstPatch. I'll take a look at it. Import only
support sounds like a good idea to me, probably not too many people will
be looking to author Akai format files. Cheers.
	Josh

> 
> Scrive Sebastien Metrot <me...@me...>:
> 
> > Hi Benno!
> > 
> > As promissed I have uploaded my akai loading lib hack to 
> > sourceforge.net. You can get the code by cvs at cvs.libakai.sf.net 
> > (module libakai). How ever I used my own multiplatform application 
> > framework to do it, ngl, which can be retreived by cvs at cvs.ngl.sf.net 
> > module ngl. The lib currently runs allright on MacOSX and Win32. I 
> > mostly used only posix calls for the macosx version so it will probably 
> > be really easy to port to linux. The licence is LGPL.
> > 
> > Sebastien (MeeLoo) Metrot
> >