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From: Vladimir S. <ha...@so...> - 2004-01-26 16:38:44
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Great work, awesome news! Ideally we should get to a point on the roadmap when sample producers will be willing to take a particular LS release and approve it for their samples. Then we won't need a lot of testers/time and they could get maximum features back from LS. What are the minimum features for LS to get to that kind of acceptance? VSTi frontend, clusters, etc is all good stuff too, but I think to get to that point LS probably just need to implement all the requirements of the GIG format just like Christian said. So let's get a detailed TODO list published on that, slice it and go for it! I should be able to contribute at least every other weekend at this point. Regards, Vladimir. -----Original Message----- From: lin...@li... [mailto:lin...@li...] On Behalf Of be...@ga... Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 7:12 PM To: Linux-Sampler Subject: [Linuxsampler-devel] LinuxSampler & sample library producers NAMM report Hi, just back from NAMM where I met lots of sample library producers: I've met people from the following companies: - Garritan (orchestral strings) - Post Musical Instruments (pianos like the high quality Bosendorfer 290) - SAM Project (Horns) - Bela Media (Vocal samples) - Vienna Symphonic Library (produces giant orchestral samples taken from the Vienna philarmonica orchester etc) - Sonic Implants - Dan Dean (orchestral samples) - Scarbee (Bass samples) - Chickensys (produces Translator, a tool that converts between many sample formats) I explained the concept of LS, where we currently are, and what's our shor tterm and long term roadmap. To some I showed LS running on the Mediastation (which contains an Athlon Linux box), to others we showed LS running on the Laptop of Paul Davis (he was at NAMM too, really a great person :-) ). The sampler producers are very enthusiastic about LS, because the technology is open, free and scalable and will be able to integrate their own stuff they need to provide superior sample playback experience. Most of them already donated sample CDs (in GIG format) that we can use for development purposes (we will share then among selected and trusted developers that contribute to the codebase and to testing like Mark does). Most of those that have not yet donated CDs said they intend to. The feature they are most excited about is networked LS clusters with a VSTi frontend on Window PC (or Mac using audiounits), because most of them produce large orchestral libraries which are impossible to run on a single machine. (the Vienna guys produce libs of 200GB and more !). So I think the VSTi networking support in LS will be very important for adoption in large scale enviroments. Christian said we want to make it to Hollywood studios and I think if we do it right this goal will not be too far away :-) On the other hand sample library producers have concerns about piracy, so they are interested if sample content can be protected while keeping the sampler open. We should think about those issues over the long term. Anyway I must say I did not expect such a positive response. They are all very friendly people, mostly 1-4 man based companies and you know it's easier to talk to such companies than to big companies. A few of the guys expressed ideas about doing a sampler module based on an embedded PC (like the VIA) running LS and their sample libraries. One guy said LS could be turned in a high quality organ with dozen of registers (which would require 20-30voices (RAM voices) per midi key). I think sample producers are often dependent on softsampler companies and often their creativity is limited by those commercial softsamplers because the commercial softsamplers often do not implement stuff that is needed only for certain libraries because it does not pay off to them, plus they try to keep their engines/sample formats as closed as possible in order to stay ahead of competing companies. Regarding distributing the sampling CDs, we should decide who will get access to them. I propose only people that have shown active contribution to LS. Be it in form of code or in form of testing like Mark does. People that comes to mind: Christian, me, Mark, Vladimir, Rui, Tobias E. others ? PS: some of the companies said that once LS gets a bit usable they will try it out and give us feedback if their sound libraries are played back correctly. thoughts ? cheers, Benno http://www.linuxsampler.org ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.gardena.net ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Linuxsampler-devel mailing list Lin...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel |