Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] 24bit multi-io audio card compatibility, Was: CVS

[Mark K. <mar...@co...>]

Reposting due to the attachment holding the information you might all
want to read back.

Sorry about that.

Can we work out a standard place to put audio clips? I don't run a web
server or ftp server here.

Thanks,
Mark

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 12:39, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 09:31, be...@ga... wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Keep in mind that here is no concept of midi channel yet, so you can
> > just send midi data (note on/off) to any channel of the ALSA port
> > linuxsampler creates.
> > 
> > Let us know if when getting back home you are able to get out sound
> > of LS. 
> > 
> 
> Benno,
>    OK, I came home for lunch since I was curious about trying this out.
> I am getting sound from LinuxSampler, so congrats. That's great!
> 
>    I only have one GSt library on this machine right now, which is the
> 'String Boxes' library from Sonic Implants. I have loaded the 8 voice
> Mellotron Choir gig file. I am listening to both GSt and LSt them side
> by side. I am able to get both single notes and polyphony from LSt.
> That's good. Some data:
> 
> 1) The first issue is that the Mellotron voice I'm playing is 10 seconds
> long on GSt, at which point I hear it loop and start over. (Hit one key
> and hold it for 30 seconds and you hear 3 passes.) However, LSt is only
> playing the voice for 2 seconds and then quitting. It doesn't loop the
> voice after 10 seconds, it just stops.
> 
> 2) The pitch of the LSt voice doesn't sound quite right. It seems too
> high and brittle. Twice as high, possibly? This is most likely that
> we're not picking up the intended middle C correctly I think. (C3 or C4
> - it changes from file to file I think.)
> 
> 3) Zooming way in while in Pro Tools shows the latency of LSt to be
> slower than GSt. It doesn't look horrible, and I didn't try to measure
> the difference as I don't have much time right now. We can focus on that
> later. 
> 
>    I set up a quick Pro Tools session and recorded them both at the same
> time from the same key hit. The 24-bit zipped file with both sounds
> separate is about 2MB. That is probably too large for me to send to the
> reflector. Shall I send you a copy directly? I'm attaching the shorter,
> 16-bit version here, but at 350K your reflector may bounce it. Do you
> have an ftp site somewhere where I could drop audio like this? Maybe
> even in CVS somewhere?
> 
> Mark
> 
>