Re: SoundFont/DLS2/Gig (was Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] testing of linuxsampler and cvs activity)

[Steve H. <S.W...@ec...>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:19:49 +0100, be...@ga... wrote:
> Ok, it is still monolithic (the recompiler stuff will come later,
>  for now let's focus on good playback of existing sample formats)
> but we will have no problems to accomodate
> new loaders and engines because the Voice:: classes can be subclassed
> to implement the characteristics of the engine associated to a certain
> sample format.

I'm starting to doubt that the recompiling stuff is neccesary, the
Gig/DLS2/SF2 formats seem to be quite expressive, yet efficiently
implementatble, not even counting the XML+WAV formats used by newer
things. I dont think that there would be much/any performance gain in
using dynamic compilation, and how many peopel would want to design thier
own instruments, when they could use standard formats have have greater
compatibility?

Its still a nice idea though, but maybe more suited to a softsynth.

- Steve