Re: [Freecycle-users] Re: [Swami-devel] Soundfont export

[Josh Green]

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 08:45 +0200, Predrag Viceic wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> 
> >So you could either have an instrument per sample or you could just have
> >one instrument with a sample assigned to each key, whatever seems to
> >make the most sense.  Having 1 per instrument would mean that you would
> >need to assign different instruments to different MIDI channels and then
> >you are often limited to 16 channels on many implementations.  It would
> >make it easier to use in other work though if you dedicated an
> >instrument per sample.
> 
> I had some spare time this WE and have implemented SF2 export, it rocks!
> I use one instrument and add a sample per zone (the sample root note being 
> equal to the zone (range-low == range-high == root-note). Now I'm looking 
> into DLS and GIG export. Are there any traps?
> 

Great to hear!  Yes, DLS and Gig support are rather beta at this point.
In particular GigaSampler.  That doesn't mean you shouldn't try it
though :)  Any problems you discover will help get things moving in this
area.  DLS has a different architecture than SoundFont files.  Instead
of the Preset/Instrument/Sample structure of SoundFont, its
Instrument/Sample for DLS files (Instruments can be thought of as
equivalent to SoundFont Presets, a little confusing).  GigaSampler is
similar to DLS (is based on the DLS format), but uses "dimensions"
instead of the standard zone list.

> > Should this be done only in libinstpatch.h or should this be done for
> > every header file? 
> 
> Well I have add it only around libinstpatch.h. One of Freecycle packagers 
> (address@hidden) has warned me that this add is removed by configure 
> script. I have to dig further on this.
> 

You need to make the change in libinstpatch.h.in which is a template
that gets re-written as libinstpatch.h by configure.

> Cheers,
> Predrag
> 

Cheers!
        Josh Green

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