On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 21:31 +0000, Andrew C wrote: > 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). SFZ is really going to be the future of LinuxSampler, I think, simply because of its non-monolithic design. Commercial samplers like EXS24 and Kontakt use much the same design, with a bunch of WAV files and a small mapping file, so all that's needed to make a Kontakt library playable in LinuxSampler is for someone to make a matching SFZ mapping. I can't see any reason why such a mapping wouldn't be freely distributable, so as a community we could build up a collection of downloadable SFZ mappings for popular commercial libraries. You can already find SFZ mappings for some libraries, eg: http://www.drealm.info/sfz/ Of course, building such mappings isn't an easy job, but if it can be done once and distributed widely, it greatly eases the burden. Thanks Leigh > 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
