The linuxsampler stuff is, if i'm not mistaken, the only native linux app capable of streaming samples from disk.
Also, FWIW, the gig format isn't really dead, because you still have linuxsampler that can read and write to native giga format. On top of that, linuxsampler is available for both linux AND Windows, so you can still play any .gig files even if you don't have gigastudio/gigasampler.
Also, there are a handful of free orchestral soundfonts out there, no commercial stuff, and to be fair, there's hardly anything in commercial out there that's in soundfont format..
Andrew Coughlan.
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Lorenzo <lsutton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'de like to have some info/pointers on samples for classical music
(especially orchestra) in the situations when one has to provide a
'virtual' performance.
There are plenty of synths and stuff done with linux for linux, I myself
use puredata extensively for electionic music, but this is a different
dcenario.
I've lately tried the linuxsampler stuff (qsanpler etc.), and was
impressed by the freebie gig piano on the website, but it looks the gig
format is quite dead at the moment, I wonder if there is a second hand
market for those, as it looks they were very popular before tascam
closed down the gigasampler thing.
For classical music, searching around it seems that currently SoundFonts
are the best supported form of samples on Linux.
I'm not necessarily talking of free stuff: quality sampling is a
laborious and skilful process and paying for good samples is fair enough
for a (digital) musician, so I'm talking about support: in fact it seems
that most packages are stand-alones for windows or mac.
Best regards,
Lorenzo.
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