Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Work Great !

[Christian S. <chr...@ep...>]

Es geschah am Freitag, 28. November 2003 11:35 als Mark Constable schrieb:
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 06:41 pm, Kenneth Lee wrote:
> > the 1g grand piano gig file work great!
> > for the time being, is it possible to load more than
> > one instrument?

Sorry, no channel support yet, although it needs only very few changes. But 
you know, there's still soooooooooo much to do and haven't even sighted the 
end of the todo list... ;)

> Apologies for not answerring your question but I'd like to
> extend the same question a bit by asking...
>
> . any such thing as a GM-equiv "patchset" for gigasamples ?

I think there are free GM gigs somewhere, but not sure. Maybe we should 
provide a couple of links to some free gigs on the LS website. Marek?

> . where is the canonical reference for the gigasampler format ?
>   (or, has it been solely reverse engineered ?)

It's a proprietary format, so you won't find an official 'reference'. So the 
answer to your last question is 'yes'. I started to write a documentation for 
the Gigasampler format, but it's only a basis so far:

	http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~cschoene/projects/libgig/

> . would it be possible/feasible to convert the, say, gigasample
>   FreePiano.gig to sf2/DLS2 format ?

Of course, that's no problem to make a DLS2 file out of it. DLS2 will probably 
be the next format I will add to LinuxSampler right after Gig support is 
completely finished. Regarding SF, I'm in no way interested in that primitive 
format. IMHO the time for SFs is almost over.

> . any ETA on when LinuxSampler will handle sf2 ?

As said, I will not waste my time with that and I think Benno has the same 
opinion. So there won't be SF support until somebody else has the will to 
implement it.

Best regards
Christian