On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:59:52 +0100, James Stone wrote > ... > I was thinking that it would be nice to build these samples into properly > layered instruments like the Garritan set for Akai and Giga. Since I > have not the faintest clue how to build one of these sampler formats, > I thought I would post here for some info. Alternatively, I was > thinking that soundfonts could be another way to do it though there > is a size limit on these AFAIK. I know that there is the freepat > project which is trying to do similar things (but as far as I can > see at the moment they are just building a general midi patchset.. > perhaps this sort of thing is planned by them for the future..?) > ... Soundfonts are OK, but they don't handle everything, say, a GIG file does, such as key-switching. That said, I have a Windows program that I use to regularly translate GIG files to SF2 format - Chicken Systems' Translator. What it does when it comes across a key-switch is create a new patch or voice. So you still have everything, it's just programmed a bit differently. I've successfully gotten Voices of the Apocalyse translated to SF2 format - the files are huge. File sizes range from 400 meg to aounrd 600 meg. I'm currently trying you get Translator running under Wine (crossover office). It installs fine, but when I go to start up the pgm for the first time, it needs to read a hidden file on the CD. I haven't figured out a way around that one yet. R. ==
