On Friday 11 March 2005 08:45 am, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar, 2005 at 12:44PM +0000, tim hall spake thus: > > Last Thursday 10 March 2005 21:08, John Check was like: > > > As far as moving patches from one font to another, hilite the source > > > patch and right click over the destination for a context menu with > > > "paste". FWIW, Multiple selections work. What other questions have ye? > > > > Thanks John, I'll try it again then. > > > > How do I get smurf to make any sound? I have ALSA/MIDI working perfectly > > and yet I don't seem to be able to hook my external keyboard up so it can > > trigger the soundfont I want to edit. Smurf is pre-JACK isn't it? > > > > > > doesn't help much and I never got round to compiling Swami, it's not > > > > included in AGNULA/DeMuDi, so I'm wondering if it's less-than-free or > > > > what the deal is with it. It strikes me as being dumb to use the .sf2 > > > > format if we don't have an accessible editor. Either we help Josh > > > > Green make Swami accessible and distributable or we should seriously > > > > consider some other options. > > > > > > Well.. the format exists already and is widespread, so while designing > > > a replacement or reimplementation ?has it's merits, it'd be throwing > > > out the baby with the bath water. > > > > I wasn't really suggesting throwing out the baby. If it's an open format, > > no problem. If there are no license problems, I would have thought that > > building a command-line interface for SWAMI would really be the way to > > go. > > That does solve some "problems" - it becomes commandline and > more accessible. It doesn't really solve all of them, though: you'd > have to have a program that did everything in a session. > Too, there are a carload of parameters per sample * instruments * presets. > Ideally, we want a way to be able to create soundfonts as they are > needed with commandline tools. You get the accessibility, plus you > can write the patch descriptions in any editor, or from a script, > whatever. You then just compile the description and waves into a > soundfont. This way is much more flexible. > First thing that comes to mind from an efficiency POV is setting loop points in the individual samples (snippet) that make up the instruments. I don't know what kind of algorithm it would take.. finding zero crossings is easy enough, but getting a smooth loop can be a challenge WRT timbre. > > cheers, > > > > tim hall > > http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
