Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Re: i'm interested

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

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 00:40, Steve Mokris wrote:
> > The term often used is interpolation. There are different methods for
> > this that trade off between quality and speed. Linear interpolation is
> > probably the simplest (besides no interpolation :) There is cubic
> > interpolation and other more complex ones as well, each increases the
> > number of points used in approximating (interpolating) samples.
> 
> to throw something else out there into the possible-feature-pool (and
> supporting the general opensource premise that "everything is better than
> something"), i think i might be interesting/useful to have a conveniently
> abstracted interface for converting "input wave + note data" into "output
> wave"; that is, pitch scaling.
> 
> ...and also be able to select which algorithm is used, as a parameter
> intrinsic to each instrument.  that way, one might (eventually) implement
> all of the above-mentioned algorithms, plus some others such as
> formant-preserving pitch scaling, time-preserving pitch scaling, and
> maybe, for retro effect, emulations of a few of those aggressively clunky
> samplers from the 1980s.
> 
> steve
> 

Perhaps libsamplerate (http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/index.html) might be
something similar to what you mentioned. I just recently heard about it,
so I'm not real familiar with its capabilities. Cheers.
	Josh Green