On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Leigh Dyer <lsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 20:47 -0600, Josh Lawrence wrote: >> hey everybody! >> >> I'm very happy to report that I have linuxsampler running on my laptop >> now, and I can't wait to try it out. Âas was mentioned in leigh's post >> about drums, I've downloaded analogue drums and the salamander grand >> piano, but I really would like a rhodes patch. Âcan anyone point me to >> a good rhodes that would work well in linuxsampler? >> >> (I'm familiar with the learjeff rhodes out there on the 'net; I wonder >> if it would load up ok? Âcan't hurt to try...) > > In theory, LinuxSampler CVS should load the jRhodes3 soundfont, but I > had trouble doing so here -- LinuxSampler crashed when I tried. It might > just be a problem with the build of LinuxSampler I have here, but I get > the impression that the SF2 backend for LinuxSampler isn't as mature as > the GIG and SFZ backends. > > However, this tool (it's a free-as-in-beer, closed-source, Windows app, > but it worked just fine under Wine for me) can convert SF2 to SFZ: > > http://audio.clockbeat.com/sfZed.html > > I gave it a shot on the jRhodes3 SF2 file, and the resulting SFZ works > well in my LinuxSampler CVS build. If anyone wants a copy of this, email > me off-list and I'll send you a link. If there's enough interest, I'll > email the author and see if he's happy for me to release it publicly. > Interesting, but (I'm not being sarcastic here) what's the point? Why not use fluidsynth to play soundfonts, seeing as that is what it was designed for?? James _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
