Hi Gabriel! On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield <gabrbedd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday, February 19, 2011 12:59:37 pm allcoms wrote: >> I'm wondering if a straight sf2 to h2kit would actually >> be possible now. I've not been able to find any docs on >> the h2kit format but through browsing the hydrogen >> forums I'm now concerned that h2kits are limited to 32 >> instruments/samples/notes? On top of this the minimum >> note number I seem to be able to trigger under composite >> is MIDI note 36 (C2) so it would be a bit confusing if I >> have to transpose notes in the conversion. So - Gabriel >> or any of the hydrogen devs - would it be possible to >> convert a piano sf2 (for example) to a h2kit without >> sacrificing a number of octaves? > > SF2 is a general purpose format for creating multi-sampled > instruments. > > H2's drumkits are a specialized and much more limited format > for creating simple playback triggers with 1 Note == 1 Drum. > > ...so, converting SF2 to H2 is not a straightforward > conversion... and would require some clever logic and > assumptions about what the SF2 "is" and how they "should be" > in H2. > > The drumkits in H2 are specified in an undocumented-but- > easy-to-grok XML file. (E.g. see > /usr/share/hydrogen/data/drumkits/GMkit/drumkit.xml) You > put all the audio data in WAV and FLAC files, and then use > the drumkit.xml to declare how they fit into the kit. It was all sounding like I could get away with using composite for my intended purpose but after looking at drumkit.xml I see that instrument id 0 (kick) is note 36 yet this isn't defined as a parameter so I presume I can't assign arbitrary note values to instruments at present? Is it true that h2kits are limited to 32 instruments? Thanks G! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
