You are right, .gig is superior to sf2.
But how/where should one record/edit gig-drums?
Hydrogen doesn't import gig's.
Rosegarden and Qtractor don't have dedicated drum editors (although rosegarden has its inner LinuxSampler plugin which is good for melodic instruments only)
The only midi sequencer that has a drum editor and can work with giga-files as far as I know is Muse. But I can't figure out how to create a separate channel for each of the instruments, with the option to control the vol/pan/fx.
Any ideas here?
vm
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Fred <f.rech@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Viktor Mastoridis wrote:Hi Viktor,
> I keep on getting Xruns when trying to work with soundfonts on
> rosegarden or muse, especially if I combine several sf2 banks with
> several audio tracks (on Ardour, prior to use plugins). So far, I was
> running them through Qsynth, but I read on the net that the
> combination of Qsynth, Rosegarden/Muse and Ardour is regarded as not
> so stable?
>
> Thus, if you don't mind sharing your experience, I will be thankful.
>
> What is the best way that you use Soundfont banks in Linux?
>
> By 'best', I mean the most stable way, without X-runs and
> listing/access to all the banks and instruments in a soundfont.
Do you try to run Fluidsynth directly from Rosegarden ? (you can find it
in "synth plugin" on the left pannel)
You can have several runs of it, one for each MIDI track, each one can
load his sound as you like.
On my old P4 + 1GbRAM can run 10 tracks with no problem (don't have test
more cause don't need yet)
Don't know ! But think that Fluid is just a GUI for Q (not sure of that)
> Is running fluidsynth from a command line a better alternative then
> qsynth and why?
> (fluidsynth command line: how does one create a midi input and audio
> output port for each sf2 bank?)
>I don't use yet... Maybe a good idea ? If you do so, could you please
>
> Can you please tell me your experience in buying professional .gig or
> .sf2 sounds?
> Strings, pianos, accordeons especially.
> Sites, prices, quality?
let me know ?
>Well, do you think a bank including 127 differents sounds and a complete
> What is better for profesional results: .sf2 or .gig?
drumset in less 100M can compete
with another one including only 1 instrument in more 1G ?? ;o))
>
> thanks in advance
> Viktor
Greets,
Fred
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