Last time I checked, LS is Open Source, but just not completely GPL. Which isn't really much of an issue unless you want to sell embedded hardware that runs LS of course. Also, I had this discussion about SF2 and SFZ on the linuxsampler mailing list a while back. Long and short of it is that SF2 is an older, monolithic file format with limited modulation capabilities designed by EMU/Creative whereas SFZ is quite a recently (and open format, like SF2) developed format that seperates the .wav multisamples from the programming bits and is designed by Roland/Cakewalk (but bears no relation to the Soundfont format). Andrew. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> I don't know. Possibly not. GigaStudio is dead. A focus by the LAU >>> Sampler community to remain *.gig focused may cause problems longer >>> term. >>> >>> I own GigaStudio 3 & 4 but also other samplers as well, as dedicated >>> sample players. Over time I'm slowly migrating to other sample file >>> formats for that reason. >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> I'm curious, what formats currently dominate the Windows sampler worlds ? >> Are any of them open-source formats ? >> > > It's a guess on my part Dave but I think the two I suggested I'd buy: > EXS24 and Kontakt. I have no idea if either is Open Source. Different > vendors do support them so there must be some spec for it. Bardstown > supports lots of formats. How can a 1 guy company do that without open > specs? > >> Also, in your opinion is SFZ/SF2 a decent replacement for GIG ? >> > > No idea what those are? Some sort of Sound Font derivative? > >> >>> All my samplers are Windows-based so I don't face these issues. >>> >>> >> >> Until they die too. :) >> > > Yeah, and I'd happily go with an Open Source sampler if there was an > Open Source sampler. LS isn't and I don't know of an alternative. I > use what I use because it works and it's long since paid for and not > necessarily because I want to. > > Cheers, > Mark > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
