Jake Johnson
12-12-2003, 12:25 AM
Are any of the other developers putting together piano VSTI\'s? Franky? Hans? Matt?
Lately, I\'ve been wishing that there was a way for the old soundfont format to support things like release samples and pedal down samples, so I could take my Giga instruments and use them in a soundfont player in Cubase. (Some of these soundfont players let you devote the player to an instrument, so you load the instrument with the player. Because the player doesn\'t consume a lot disk space, you can essentially have ten players on your hard drive, each devoted to an instrument.)
Of course, I can load Kontakt or VSampler and soon Giga as a VSTI, and play from there, but I\'ve come to hate the steps of loading the VSTI in Cubase and then loading samples into the VSTI. It may be a minor quibble that I\'m exaggerating, but it just seems much more clean to have an instrument immediately available from the VSTI list in Cubase.
Is it entirely impossible for the soundfont code to ever support these things, or has EMU just stopped revising the code? Or is there some other way of getting the sounds and features into a VSTI that avoids the intermediary--a Kompakt-like thing that, like Michiel\'s Bos VSTI, doesn\'t need a softsampler?
Lately, I\'ve been wishing that there was a way for the old soundfont format to support things like release samples and pedal down samples, so I could take my Giga instruments and use them in a soundfont player in Cubase. (Some of these soundfont players let you devote the player to an instrument, so you load the instrument with the player. Because the player doesn\'t consume a lot disk space, you can essentially have ten players on your hard drive, each devoted to an instrument.)
Of course, I can load Kontakt or VSampler and soon Giga as a VSTI, and play from there, but I\'ve come to hate the steps of loading the VSTI in Cubase and then loading samples into the VSTI. It may be a minor quibble that I\'m exaggerating, but it just seems much more clean to have an instrument immediately available from the VSTI list in Cubase.
Is it entirely impossible for the soundfont code to ever support these things, or has EMU just stopped revising the code? Or is there some other way of getting the sounds and features into a VSTI that avoids the intermediary--a Kompakt-like thing that, like Michiel\'s Bos VSTI, doesn\'t need a softsampler?