About SoundFonts: (reply to robert's soundfonts rants) i havent used soundfonts at all (never), i was planning to use them as a last resort not because everybody has a bad attitude towards sf, but what youve said that theyre monolithic, when im composing i like to make new samples and load them in-the-fly to a sampler and then process the sample more with fx and stuff... and again... render to wave and then load- it again... maybe change some rythmic structures and then render again to audio and maybe the complete audio chunk load it as a whole audio track in ardour or some audio seq software with mixer to further process!!! thats the way i like to make music, so the point is that soundfount could let me achieve this easily? or is it difficult to compile your own soundfonts... the other problem i think ill encounter is that sequencers cant record the audio directly from your soundcards wavetable... (please correct if im wrong)... on the other hand ive been searching for sf and ive realized that maybe they will be very useful to me because you can load pre-made drum kits like a TR-909 for example and use them easily just as if you had the real midi module... another question: my soundcard has 4 synths built in right? does this means i can load 4 soundfont banks at the same time??? on the other hand ive realized specimen is a great sampler: everything i need (preview .wav, map different regions, loop point editor, filter, though more different filters would be very very nice...) and i didnt know you could use it directly from rosegardan through alsa midi , that excelent, just as if specimen was a plug in, i can trigger samples from my midi keyboard with an inperceptible latency, now i would like to know several more things, like how to apply ladpsa plugins to the sampler for example if i want to use some of the ladpsa filters... how is the audio routed from specimen back into the midi host mixer (it displays audio in a channel called rec... ) but it has no slots for plug ins... anyone knows how to do this??? could this be done? or do i have to record the audio and then process it in a standard audio track ? thanx ivan. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? La mejor conexi?n a internet y 25MB extra a tu correo por $100 al mes. http://net.yahoo.com.mx
