On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Dominic Sacrà <dominic.sacre@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 02 January 2011 19:36:51 rosea.grammostola wrote: >> On 01/02/2011 06:46 PM, Paul Davis wrote: >> > the previous email mentioned a program that is an example of a >> > sample file format converter. what the program mentioned above >> > does is something to handle loading of instrument plugins by >> > programs that don't support a particular plugin API (in this case, >> > VSTi). VSTi is not a sample file format like GIG or SFZ - its a >> > plugin API. the two are not in any possible sense equivalent to >> > each other. >> >> Thanks for clarification. Of course I suspected that it would be very >> hard to convert VST1, but I dropped it anyways... You never know >> what's possible these days ;) > > Well, according to its manual, Extreme Sample Converter can "convert" > VSTi to GIG and other sample formats. But this works simply by recording > the plugin's audio output for a certain number of notes, velocities, > etc. > This kind of conversion works reasonably well for some instruments, but > many will suffer significantly from the limitations of sampled formats. > There's no way to change a synth's settings in a sampled instrument, and > a lot of detail and nuances of the original sound will be lost. > > That said, you can do basically the same thing on Linux using Synthclone > (http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/). > > > Dominic That's basically how all the Sampletekk sampled synth gig files worked in GigaStudio. I own about a dozen old synths sampled in this manner. True, I cannot program my 'Arp Soline' or my 'Mellotron', but the folks who recorded it recorded 30 or 40 different settings and I get the basic sounds without the electrical usage or space consumption. - Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
