Peter Eastman wrote > I'm not sure which approach is better. That depends on how the > synthesizers are implemented, and I'm not at all familiar with the > MuseScore source code. (I've skimmed it a bit, but that's all.)
Well I can tell you that at synthesiser level both Zerberus and FluidSynth are using MIDI as the bottom level communication protocol, but I am not familiar with the higher level source code either. SFZ synths currently fall into 3 types - SFZ 1.0, SFZ 2.0 and Plogue - and then there is Zerberus which currently only recognises a subset of SFZ 2.0 opcodes, although I think we have a GSOC student working on inmproving that. The problem you are going to find is that an SFZ 1.0 synth will not recognise many of the SFZ 2.0 opcodes, and vice versa. Plogue SFZ is mainly 2.0 compliant, but it has its own series of opcodes which aren't recognised by either 1.0 or 2.0 synths. Really the best thing to do is let the user manage their SFZ player (apart from Zerberus of course which has its own UI within MuseScore). I am currently using 3 different SFZ players, depending on the nature of the SFZ file being loaded. The problem being that the SFZ format is so open that it is easy to add customised opcodes to work with your particular player implementation, which is why, of course, many VST instruments have SFZ at their core. SF2 is well defined and standard. The soundfont will either be 2.01 (with 16 bit samples) or 2.04 (with 24 bit samples), and FluidSynth is a mature and well established player (although MuseScore's version of it is currently quite a long way behind the mainstream version.) Hope This Helps Michael ----- Regards Michael -- View this message in context: http://dev-list.musescore.org/Playback-abstraction-layer-tp7579762p7579768.html Sent from the MuseScore Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mscore-developer mailing list Mscore-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mscore-developer
