On Friday 30 July 2004 05:35 pm, Russell Hanaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 13:48, Mathias Lundgren wrote: > > fre 2004-07-30 klockan 22.24 skrev Steve Harris: > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:44:18 +0200, Mathias Lundgren wrote: > > > > If linuxsampler provides the same gui/engine separation as fluidsynth > > > > does it wouldn't be difficult to wrap it up with M.E.S.S or DSSI and > > > > throw it into MusE or RG, together with a bank of good drumsamples > > > > and some preconfigured "drumkits". Not to mention all the other fun > > > > things you would be able to do... I don't know much about > > > > linuxsampler though, does anyone know how it will work with > > > > LADSPA-fx, routing and midi? Will it provide send-fx that could be > > > > controlled via midi, for different channels etc etc or? Hmm, better > > > > check the archives... > > > > > > linuxsampler does have gui/engine speration. It speaks a custom > > > protocol, but its wrapped in a library, so its not too much of a pain. > > > > Just had a _very_ short look (and that look looked quite good ;-). I > > guess it wouldn't be a problem to control it, but to wrap MESS on top, > > you need to be able to get the audio output (to feed it further into > > MusE). Perhaps another backend is needed for that. Didn't look that deep > > though to see how tricky that would be. Ah, well. Not today. > > > > /Mathias > > I had a quick _poke_ around the linuxsampler website too. It DOES look > promising but... > > Will 128 separate samples need to be loaded for the GM instrument set? > Plus rythym samples for each individual piece of the drum kit? Be that > the case it will be cumbersome... I would imagine 128 is just a start. You'd need 256 and interpolation to just cover timbre changes relative to dynamics without a filter envelope. Crafting good sample sets is a lot more involved than making digital mellotron tapes.
