Excerpts from James Morris's message of 2011-06-10 00:37:15 +0200: > On 9 June 2011 23:30, Folderol <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:22:58 +0100 > > James Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Since working on Petri-Foo I keep returning to the idea that perhaps > >> it would be better to add a sampler-waveform to Yoshimi or another > >> soft-synth. Too bad I'm not that great a coder. > >> > >> Anyway, the idea seems so obvious now. Are there any good reasons for why > >> not? > >> > >> Just an idea I wanted to put out. > >> > >> James. > > > > Personally, I'd hate that. I'm very firmly in the school of 'Do just one > > thing, > > but do it well.' > > But are the two really so different? They both do exactly the same > thing except one does it with synthesised waveforms and the other does > it with sampled waveforms. From thinking about the fact that most soft > synths use wave-tables, it can't be that difficult to put a sample in > there? Aside from synthesised waveform and sampled waveform, I think > (but don't quote me on this :-) that it is perhaps only certain > conventions which distinguish the two. > > > James.
I too think that there's not that much difference between a wavetable synth and a sampler. I guess you could distinguish them if you like, use things like typical sample length, user control over samples and so on, but this rather artificial. I think samplers and synths have a lot in common, typically midi in, audio out, note logic, filters and more. There's no good reason not to marry those two things. Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
