On Wednesday 11 August 2004 03:30 pm, Iv?n Almada wrote: > 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 Non-traditionally. > 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)... Soundfonts are just a unified format/architecture for sample playback. In this case "sample" means wavetable synthesis. You can use them for storing loops, and raw samples.. You can do a lot of your comping nondestructively. You may have to learn "another instrument" as it were, because you'll have to work with the available tools for soundfont editing. > > 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... Probably easier, because you have potentially better interface with a computer. > > another question: my soundcard has 4 synths built in > right? does this means i can load 4 soundfont banks at > the same time??? > Yes > 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 ? > Use Specimen's jack driver, then patch through jack-rack or another plug-in host > 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
