Hi, onsdagen den 11 augusti 2004 21.30 skrev Iv?n Almada: > 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)... Oh, I don't think that is a problem, most soundcards have a selectable input, you can generally set it to record from several sound sources, including the wavetable. > > 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... Yes, this is a very good use of soundfonts, there are some excellent fonts on the net for old drum machines! > > another question: my soundcard has 4 synths built in > right? does this means i can load 4 soundfont banks at > the same time??? I'm not sure you said what soundcard you had, but with four separate synths it sounds like an sb-live right? It was a while since I tried this (I generally run fluidsynth which also uses soundfonts), I think they use the same "synth engine" though, so they have the same sounds. You can have a different sound for all 16 midi channels though, I recall it is somewhat hard to load fonts on all channels though, quite a bit easier with a softsynth like fluidsynth (especially with a frontend like Qsynth or the one in MusE). > 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... This is, as Chris mentioned, done with a mixer application, like Jack-rack (pending that specimen can output to jack, but I think it does). I think you could use Rosegarden as the mixer application also, I use MusE like this, add an input and connect the jack-app to it, this limits the number of apps I need to keep track of and most settings are stored in one place. > > 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. > > /Robert -- http://spamatica.se/music/
