On Sat, 3 Apr 2021 09:51:53 -0600 Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is a public service announcement, since I suspect that many here > will not be aware of this development. > > David Hilowitz (0) recently "ported" (1) his new sample library > playback engine Decent Sampler to Linux. It is available as a Linux > VST3 plugin and as a standalone application (2) David's work was > substantially inspired by the work in the Pianobook community (3), > where people build often-complex sample libraries originally to > "save" real pianos but increasingly covering new territory (such as > the Winter Voices project (4)). > > I am a little disappointed that David chose to define a new sampler > library format rather than use SFZ, given the developments with sfizz > over the last several months. However, both DecentSampler and SFZ are > text formats, and there are gratis implementations for them both. In > theory, DS -> SFZ conversion could be automated, though the other way > around may be more problematic. > > Yesterday I downloaded 36 Decent Sampler libraries from the Pianobook > website, and although they are not all quite as awesome as I had > hoped for, some of them are amazing and all of them make a valuable > addition to the sample library situation for Linux audio/music > workflows. There are also some gratis and some non-gratis libraries > for Decent Sampler on the Decent Sampler website. > > It would be lovely if Decent Sampler was libre as well as gratis, and > I hope we see quality SFZ libraries either gratis or reasonably > priced, because that format offers some features missing from Decent > Sampler. But for now, I personally consider this a wonderful step > forward for Linux-based musicians. > > (0) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCoAJ5JYKYTMubpTIsWi70w > > (1) I put ported in quotes because I believe that DS is implemented > using JUCE, and so this mostly just involved changing the build > flags :) > > (2) https://www.decentsamples.com/product/decent-sampler-plugin/ > > (3) https://www.pianobook.co.uk/ > > (4) https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/winter-voices/ Thanks for the PSA Paul! Loving Decent Sampler. And Pianobook is a great find. Definitely a bump for linux audio! -- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
