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Originally posted by elle:
Domenik,
Sbenno,

I'm a bit worried over this soundfont focus.
I thought soundfonts were a dying business.

Everybody is now publishing sample libraries based on some included softsampler player engine (kontakt, ...), not sound fonts.

We're talking gigabytes of disk streaming samples, playable with 512-1Gb of ram instead of 16-128 Mb soundfonts;

goto http://www.garritan.com/mp3.html#GPO for some sound comparisons ($249!) and this business is just starting; (see http://www.zero-g.co.uk/index.cfm?articleid=803)

If one could add (soft)arrangers to it ...
Call it a hardware supported FLR2003

Or maybe ask Jos Maas' onemanband (http://home.zonnet.nl/josmaas/onemanband/index.htm) for a linux version??

I sincerely hope the linux world has an answer to these 'sonic' trends.

If the answer is yes, THEN you're hardware all-in-one concept would really shine.

Keep up the good work!



Hi Elle,

Reguarding Soundfonts as a dying business, thanks for the tip. I'm pretty out of touch. I think Benno and one of the other guys brought up the same point as you. It'll be simple enough to translate sample libraries to Soundfont libraries which is how we can view this. Make any sense?

Benno is the person who should reply to you but he's busy. He is developing the sampler that you're interested in and has reported excellent results. I'm under the impression that the sampler will be working when I recieve a MS prototype on November 27.

Reguarding sound libraries, Benno has been contacted by someone who I believe has asked us to not name them, yet. The person has sent Benno their library so it's very likely that everything will work out. Without naming the person I can only say that you already have. Is that vague and yet indicative enough? Ah, the beauty of vaporware.

Ron Parker