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On 13/10/11 11:47 PM, allcoms wrote:

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> Thanks for pointing out your guide Leigh - I'd not seen that. I think

> I'll have to have another go with LS to triple check it still irritates

> the hell out of me for at least the following reasons:

>

> 1 - Its not in the repos of most distros due to licensing probs

>

> 2 - Its a bitch to compile

Can't really disagree with either of those :) I do wish it was easier to

install -- I hope some good unofficial repositories show up once there's

a new stable release out.

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> 3 - I never got qsampler to work

I've never had much luck with it either, though apparently the version

in svn now works better, and has some SFZ support.

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> 4 - Fantasia is a horribly slow, bloated java app - yuck!

It is a bit slow, but I rarely have to run it these days. I used to have

to run it once a session, just to reload my saved sampler setup. Now I

don't even need to do that -- since I'm using the LinuxSampler LV2

plugin, my sampler settings are all stored as part of my Ardour session,

and automatically restored when I load that session.
> 5 - Like composite, iirc, it also lacks the ability to load simple wavs

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> if thats all you want otherwise you need to mess about converting stuff

> to .gig or .sfz first

It does, yes, but the SFZ format is really quite simple. For a simple

case of mapping a single sample across the keyboard, something like this

should suffice:
sample=sample.wav

pitch_keycenter=C3

lokey=C1

hikey=C5
You can add all sorts of options to that (envelopes, filters, etc.), but

that'll get you started.
> Linuxsampler would be good for some use cases if points 1 and 2 didn't

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> plague it but we still need a simple LV2 sampler that can be easily

> redistributed and packaged for people who just want to trigger wav drum

> sounds or whatever.

Yep, that would definitely still be handy. For now I'm still using

Hydrogen to host any drum sounds that I create (routing each Hydrogen

instrument's outputs separately to Ardour), but I may soon start making

SFZ files for them instead.
Thanks

Leigh

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