Quote:
Originally posted by Clif Anderson:
I would like to second Starkeeper's suggestion of making a software arranger that is also a VST host. This would greatly simply things from a user's standpoint. A VST host would have soundfont capability because it could host rgcaudio's free sfz soundfount player.


Well if you are only going to use sfz as
your sound source, then a VST host is not
needed, as all you would need is the
standalone free version of sfz linked with
Midi-yoke. The problem with sfz and all
current SF players(as Frank has pointed out
many times)is XG drum kit change recognition. It would be great if some SF player would actually do this correctly.
But as for the free sfz doing this, it
probably will never happen, being that the
company was purchased recently by Cakewalk.
As far as VST hosting in general, it can
be quite a can of worms, and I would suggest making the user friendly arranger portion as good as possible, and leave hosting to such experts as Forte and Console.
Your other alternative is to require a
Creative SF compatible soundcard to use
with your program, as I think Frank has
used this and ,I think, said handles XG well.



[This message has been edited by Vquestor (edited 02-22-2005).]