Dear Josh, > and had VERY deep pockets, > Not that deep :)... Also I guess one would have to further invest in the samples/plugins. So to try and summarise (please take this as a completely 'neutral' consideration no 'linux, gnu extremist' etc simply trying to clear the situation): Software-wise the only sample technology supported 'natively' in Linux is SoundFont and Giga. The former offering many freebies of different quality and some commercial products, the latter possibly offering good better sound and performance (?) quality but hoard to find (albeit commercially) due to current 'executable plug-in' hype. Midi-driven hardware is of course 'supported' (be it dedicated sampler, windows/mac machine used asmidi 'hardware', keyboard sampl etc.) with all the costs and benefits of having an external dedicated piece of hardware of course. Does this depict the picture fairly enough? This brings to another question: What is the situazion of the SFZ standard (http://www.cakewalk.com/DevXchange/sfz.asp) and the alleged collaboration and will to work on this by Garritan (http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/04/01/garritan-rescues-giga-sampling-technology-talks-open-standards/)? Support for sfz in linuxsampler seems to be alive but slow: http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=186&start=30 And again what support will there be for the format? Hope I haven't bored anyone :) Lorenzo _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
