Jesse Ray Lucas wrote: > I have been looking around on the web for a soft sampler for Linux, but > haven't come up with anything. There are virtual synths galore, but no full > featured soft samplers, ala Gigastudio, Kontakt, Halion, etc. Am I missing > anything? Yes: legal fees. Apparently one of those companies found it expedient to patent the process of streaming samples from disk. Imagination in the creative domain is often simply not enough for such companies, they want to make damned sure that no-one else knows how to do it without paying them first. And of course they're not going to manufacture a native Linux version. > I don't know much about csound, but am intrigued by it. Would there > possibly be a way to write the equivalent of a soft sampler using csound? I > suppose that would require a realtime version of csound like DirectCSound > for Win32. Can csound for Linux work in realtime? Yes, beautifully, but you'll need to have a kernel patched for low-latency. There has already been some discussion on the Csound mail list regarding the use of Csound for such a purpose. The discussions are basically stymied by the fact of that truly noxious patent. > Has anyone tried getting Native Instruments Kontakt (or any other Windows > soft sampler) to run in Wine? I'm curious how/if this would work. I've always felt that Wine's overhead was too great for any realtime audio work, but recently I've read reports of people using Rebirth and other Windows music and sound apps under newer versions of Wine. I guess it's time to go back to the vino... Alas, I don't own any of the apps you're interested in, so I couldn't test them anyway. > Thanks in advance for your help. Not much help, I'm afraid. :( Best regards, == Dave Phillips The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org
