On 09/27/2011 06:48 PM, Brett McCoy wrote: >> If you could document your setup, you'll probably be able to convince >> quite a few future students! > > I surely will. BTW, Robin, I also used xjadeo extensively for these > classes, it served me very well for syncing music to image. I'm glad to hear that. Now that you've graduated and have lots of time (hehe) you may want to give http://gareus.org/wiki/a3vtl a shot. Basically it allows to control xjadeo from ardour3 and offers a video-timeline. BUT the usual alpha-software warnings apply. >> The problem is not so much the software; but time and equipment >> (instruments, musicians, studio) to record and create those libraries - >> especially orchestral sounds libraries for film scoring can be quite >> expensive. >> >> Most producers of these sample-libs do simply not have the means to >> support free-software: Publishing the samples in a proprietary format >> solves their issue of distribution retaining copy-protection. > > I wouldn't object to using commercial apps like Kontakt or PLAY on Linux... I would not object to commercial samples - if the sampler is free :) Though eventually I'd favor some kind of GPL or CC buyout model. DRM is evil but musicians still need to eat. I think the problem boils down to creating an open format for a commercial sample-library that prevents the user from sharing the samples while it can still be used (in realtime). The usual GNU/Linux approaches (e.g. gpg encrypted ramdisk) make it either too easy to circumvent copy protection or are not suitable for real-time usage. Tools like http://www.linuxsampler.org/nkitool/ are in constant need to be updated to new versions... >> AFAIK sonokinetic.net is or was looking into making their libs available >> for GNU/Linux applications; but I don't know any details. > > That would be awesome... I use a lot of Sonokinetic's libraries. They did sponsor the Linux Audio Conference this year. maybe we should start asking them repeatedly about Linux support... I just sent them an inquiry. I will let you know when they respond. >> Another Dutch effort: http://opensymphonia.sourceforge.net/ is an active >> project towards that goal. > > Wonder how that is coming along... not much there right now... It is still in planning phase.. it only started a few months back and - alas - there is not much information there how to help except for donating money. I am a bit reluctant to do so without knowing the way they'll go. So far they only outline the goals which IMHO seem a bit too too unrealistic. Even just the first point on: http://opensymphonia.sourceforge.net/?page_id=16 "Studio quality 192khz/24bit recording of a entire Orchestra per section and per instrument, dry and in a concert hall." would be an investment of >$1M in the commercial world. And the 2nd: "Multiple articulations" will take at least a year or two. let's hope Joey can pull this one off! robin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
