Richard,
Your gigasampler clone idea is something I have been toying with in the
back of my mind. I think one the main successes of GigaSampler is the
willingness of sound designers to produce commercial sound libraries. More
than anything I would say the ease of working with Gigasampler is the key
factor here. I also think that a virtual sampler on Linux could be very
useful in moving pro musicians over the Linux platform. However musicians
are interested in the sound libraries available for a particular sampler. I
would propose a 3 tiered approach:
1. A well designed file format for the Keymaps/Programs (an open version of
the .Gig format)
2. An engine for midi based sample playback (i.e. the gigasampler clone)
3. A utility for laying out Keymaps/Programs & converting them to a variety
of formats (for hardware sampler & soft samplers)
Part 1 would have to be a group effort. We may even want to try to
include some commercial sound designers in the debate. Part 2 I would not
be much help on. Part 3 I would be interested in undertaking. I think a
well designed user interface for sound design would go a long way to making
the project a success and I believe I could provide that.
-Garth
PS - I am currently working on releasing a piano sample library.
-Garth
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard A. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 1:23 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Gigasampler Clone
>
>
> >need to be damn sure you can win that case... In the future, when
> >contemplating patent infringement, it would be wise to not
> mention it to
> >anyone, or keep any evidence that you knew the patent
> existed. Fscking
> >lawyers.
>
> Yeah.. I guess that was a little "high and mighty" of me to pronounce
> judgement on the patent. I must have been reading too much Richard
> Stallman stuff lately. Probally regret that remark later on.
>
> Anyway I am going to have a friend of mine who IS a patent
> lawyer read it
> tell me what he thinks rather than just speculation.
>
> If at all possible I would like to write things in such a way
> as to not
> infringe on the patent however after reading the patent it seems to me
> that anything remotely close to giga functionality will infringe
>
> --
> Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "I'd hang out with science kids - they can blow things up!
> I mean , what's cooler than that?"
> - Tori Amos
>
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