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Es geschah am Freitag 18 März 2005 21:59 als Bluefuture schrieb:

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> Il giorno ven, 18-03-2005 alle 19:40 +0000, Daniel James ha scritto:

> > Hi Stefano,

> >

> > > I think that swami already support editing of gig file.

> >

> > According to the website, that feature is in the development version.

> >

> >From a mail of Josh Green 2005-01-03 in swami-devel mailiglist:

>

>  Nice to hear that linuxsampler is improving, I hope they provide an API

>  for it to be used generically for other than GigaSampler files (I must

>  admit I"m biased towards that proprietary format).

Yes, LS is designed to support different kinds of sampler engines. We just

concentrated on the Gig format, as we thought it to offer the most promising

instrument libraries. As we meanwhile support this format quite well, we hope

to start implementing other sampler engines (that is other formats) very

soon. Personally I'm especially keen to add support for Akai and a complete

new and free sampler format. Which brings me to another point:
Shouldn't we better design a new, free sampler format instead of using

proprietary formats for free instruments? Because it will take much longer to

develop (or adjust existing) instrument loaders & editors to be fully

compliant with proprietary formats (due to missing specs) than developing

editors for a free, well defined new format. And think about all the

drawbacks of exiting, proprietary formats. E.g. I would appreciate also to be

able to edit an instrument on the console in case (tar - XML).
>  There is still a bit

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>  of work to do to add GigaSampler support to libInstPatch/Swami.  I"m

I wonder if the Gigasampler format fully fits into the Swami environment.

Wouldn't it mean quite a (design) change in libinstpatch & Swami to be able

to cover the whole Gigasampler format (up to GSt 3.0) with write support?
> > > It could be posted a tutorial on oneshotsampler about creating good

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> > > Gigafile instead of simple wave file.

> >

> > If someone from the linuxsampler project has that information then it

> > would good to disseminate it - maybe as a 'quicktoot'. I personally

> > have some good microphones, and record plenty of real instruments

> > that could provide samples.

Well, do you have GSt editor? We could provide some documentation about the

Gigasampler format if somebody's really interested. Once you know the

possiblities of the format, I guess you won't have much problems to get into

any instrument editor that supports the Gig format. But learning to produce

*good* patches might still take you some time.
As libgig already supports (reading) the Gigasampler format up to GSt 3.0

quite well and libgig is not too big, we could also add write support to

libgig without too much work. But then still somebody would have to write an

instrument editor on top of libgig.

And at the end I still doubt if it's worth the effort and if it wouldn't be

better to build on a free, well designed sampler format.
>

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> Good idea.

>

> > > If linuxaudio consortuim could give the hardware infrastructure for

> > > hosting Gigafiles in oneshotsampler we could have an usable

> > > sampling free software/free sampler banks infrastructure

> >

> > I'm afraid linuxaudio.org does not currently own any hardware which it

> > could donate, but you could try asking member projects. AGNULA Libre

> > Music hosts complete works, but I don't think they are doing samples

> > as yet.

> > If you're talking about the really large samples, I think they might

> > exceed disc space and bandwidth limitations quite quickly on any

> > hosted machine. Perhaps a peer-to-peer infrastructure based around

> > BitTorrent would work.

We could offer quite some GB for patches and we have a large bandwith. But on

the long term I agree we might have to use a distributed solution like

bittorent.
CU

Christian
[http://www.linuxsampler.org]