Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Linuxsampler status,thoughts etc (long)

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

On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 18:29, Benno Senoner wrote:
> Josh is writing LibInstPatch and I think it is a nice lib but I'm unsure if
> it is the right way to go.

Just wanted to clear up one point that Benno mentioned. I'm curious if
anyone has actually looked at libInstPatch (not the one with swami-0.9.x
thats totally outdated, but the one in the swami-1-0 development branch,
use "co -r swami-1-0 swami" when checking out CVS, explains more on
Swami download page). I really think it is a nice library architecture
and it is constantly improving. It already does quite a bit of what you
have been talking about:

IpatchRiffParser - RIFF parser object
Patch formats are loaded into multi-threaded safe object trees
"named" object properties for easy setting of object values
All file IO done via IpatchFile which is a virtual file object
Abstract sample storage (RAM, file, swap, libsndfile, etc)
Supports DLS and SoundFont files currently, rather trivial to add
additional formats.
Has a nice GUI already, although incomplete (Swami)

Anyways, I'm not sure what the goal is of the LinuxSampler project, but
I know I'll be continuing work on my own project. If there is some way
in which my work could help the goals of LinuxSampler, I think it would
be cool. I don't really feel like I have gotten any feedback on if
libInstPatch makes sense or not for this project, so until I do, I will
keep pushing it :) Cheers.
	Josh Green