On 10/14/2011 12:40 PM, Dan MacDonald wrote:
I addressed the list yesterday regarding my dissatisfaction wrt the current state of soft samplers under Linux. Since then I have checked out the latest svn versions of Linuxsampler and qsampler just to make sure nothing had dramatically changed since I last tried them. I'd much rather we fix up LS and qsampler to be usable in all cases rather than anyone, such as myself, go starting a whole new project. I was thinking about posting this to the LS mailing list (if there is one) but the problems I've encountered today involves a wider range of Linux audio projects than just LS (such as LV2 and Ardour) so I thought it best to discuss these issues here. I have two goals I'd like to see achieved: 1 - You should be able to import wavs into qsampler and create/use simple .sfz files without opening/editing/manually creating any text (.sfz) files. This should be easily achieved by adding a new menu option to qsampler called something like 'Import audio files' or 'Create sfz'. In most cases you just need to specify the soundfile and the note or range that will trigger it. Comments Rui?
in case you didn't notice, qsampler is a _front-end_ to linuxsampler. that definition also applies to the other cases, like jsampler (aka. fantasia) and gsampler.
the actual sampler engine is linuxsampler which also acts like a server to any of its front-ends (clients) via lscp (linuxsampler control protocol) a simple line text protocol over plain tcp/ip.
linuxsampler front-ends like qsampler only "talks" lscp, they don't know nothing about jack, midi nor sound-files, whatsoever. it is linuxsampler that does all the dirty work, even if its being redirected via its plugin interface.
however, linuxsampler as an engine does not provide any interface to edit sample files be that .gig or .sfz . you edit those files through an appropriate stand-alone application (eg. gigedit) and then tell linuxsampler to load the product into its engine. that's it.
you can now guess the answer is no ;) cheers -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
