[Linuxsampler-devel] RE: Re: Import of the most common sample formats

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

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 10:04, Matthew Williams wrote:
> Gday Josh,
> Sorry for the long time to reply, I've been quite busy lately.
> 

No problem :)

> Are you aware of CPU(currently known x86 P2, P3, P4, and Athlon) denormal
> issues? This article, even though it focuses on a Windows sound app, it
> explains denormal issues and how they affect sound apps on all platforms:
> http://phonophunk.phreakin.com/p4denormal.html
> Another good read on denormal issues can be found here:
> http://music.calarts.edu/~glmrboy/musicdsp/musicdspFAQ.dsp.html#ct13
> 

Sure, but these issues don't really relate to what I'm working on. My
current focus is Swami which does not deal with audio synthesis
directly, but will use other projects instead (such as FluidSynth, or
linuxsampler when it is available).

> Are you aware of the Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API (LADSPA)?
> More details can be found at this website:
> http://www.ladspa.org/

Of course. I've written a vocoder LADSPA plugin before (really just
adapted someone elses work to LADSPA):

http://www.sirlab.de/linux/download_vocoder.html if you are interested.


Adding VST support to linuxsampler is out of my scope of things to do.
If at some point this kind of support is added, I might look into the
instrument format you mentioned. When I did a search for these formats I
did not find any specs though. Seems like this is probably a low
priority at the moment, at least until linuxsampler has something
working and someone decides to try and add VST plugin support.

Perhaps this topic can be re-visited in the future, when things are more
developed. Cheers.
	Josh