Excerpts from Dan MacDonald's message of 2011-10-14 17:45:41 +0200: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Yes, I know what a front end and what LS does and I really don't think my > request/suggestion was out of place. Far as I know gigedit just does that - > edits gig files and has nothing to do with sfz. You need to realise I wasn't > requesting anything like a full gigedit clone but for sfz, all I wanted was > a most basic sfz creation feature that would simply let you pick files, > assign them to notes or ranges and create a matching .sfz - thats all! > > > you can now guess the answer is no ;) > > > > Yep! Well at least I tried. > > Mr Prokoudine: > > Ah! I didn't know about gsampler- thanks for highlighting that. It compiles > but I'm not sure it actually works yet. I think I may get in touch with its > author and see if he is willing to integrate a very simple sfz creation > function into his app. > > > Mr Dyer: > > Thanks for your example of a simple sfz but that doesn't work for me under > either qsampler or fantasia, specifying the full path to the sample or not, > putting all the commands on one line or separate lines like you did- I just > cannot get my basic sfz to load. I'm running very latest svn versions of all > the LS apps btw. > > > Everybody: > > Paul says that we can store samples in a random subdir of an A3 session and > I have successfully got LS to load and play soundfonts but it looks like A3 > has trouble loading such a session without moving anything atm so I've not > been able to test what happens when I move the session just yet. Recently a new release of synthclone was announced here, and as far as I understood it it's a tool to create soundfonts in sfz, gig, etc.. Have a look, maybe it works for you: https://code.google.com/p/synthclone/ Regards, Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
