venerdì, 24 marzo 2006 alle 15:11:40, Ismael Valladolid Torres ha scritto: > I was seriously thinking of getting a cheap hardware sampler, given > prices they are showing up on eBay currently. I only owned an Akai > S2000 for a couple of hours in the past (seriously!) and obviously > never got used to working with one of them. > > Of a hardware sampler I like the ability of tweaking programs while > making them sound. It's the way to create bizarre sounds which is the > utility that fancies me most from this instrument. On the opposite, > software samplers usually requires you to load a separate application > to create the programs from samples available as .wav files, something > good for programming a realistic cello sound but not for using these > shits as synthesizers. You can't find precooked libraries for these, but have you tried specimen and chionic? I tried chionic the last week and found it very interesting, and full of parameters for tweaking the sounds (internal effects, envelopes, filters and so on - not to mention LADSPA) > Anyway I am thinking of giving a try to Linux Sampler. > > I've always found strange that Linux Sampler focus on Giga > support. There are lots of commercial Akai CD-ROMs and lots of > soundfonts available on the net. I was simply wondering on how is the > Akai support implemented in Linux Sampler. Does it read Akai CD-ROMs > or some intermediate step converting samples is required? I think akai supoprt is planned and the libraries for reading akai cds are already written. As far as I know linuxsampler doesn't support yet akai discs... :-/ > More widely, how are you open sourced people managing transfers of > samples between formats (Akai and Giga to SF2 or DLS and such)? Few > applications I remember in the past for Windows were not only closed > source but also commercial and pretty expensive. > > Any answer very welcome. HTH Ciao -- Emiliano Grilli Linux user #209089 http://www.emillo.net
