I think it would be a very good idea to write a csound sampler based on a
file format that is compatible (via conversion) with the commercial sample
collection file formats (gigasampler etc). I'm not familiar with the details
of such file formats, and can't say much about the choice of sfz.
Oeyvind

2007/12/7, Steven Yi <stevenyi@gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> I've had in mind for a while now to build a high-quality Csound-based
> sampler.  I was thinking originally that the sampler would be best to
> implement the same features as some other formats to allow conversion
> to from one format to the one the csound-based one could use.  The
> reason for building a sampler in csound and not just communicating to
> one via MIDI or through something like VST is that I want a format
> that is cross-platform, completely open, and one which can be flexible
> to use within the csound world (i.e. can take in frequency instead of
> MIDI key nums so that it is easier to do glissandi as well as
> microtonal work).
>
> The sampler code I had planned to do all in Csound itself and not as a
> separate binary opcode plugin.  This allows flexibility.
>
> The sample spec that csound would need to read would have to be a
> something one of the gen routines could read in; this should be fine
> as the spec that csound will read is expected  to be generated by a
> program.
>
> Now, until today I wasn't sure on what kind of features to implement
> nor what samplers to model after, but I came across a mention to the
> sfz file format on one of the microtonal mailing lists:
>
> http://www.cakewalk.com/DevXchange/sfz.asp
>
> The program extreme sample convertor (http://www.extranslator.com/)
> can translate to sfz.
>
> This format is open but I don't know that much of the history of this
> format and more importantly if it seems like it will stick around.
> One thing that seems a little strange is not finding much commercial
> support for this format which I assume is because it is extremely
> open.
>
> Anyone have thoughts on this format?  Perhaps it'll be worth using as
> the model and ultimately other formats could be added to convert from.
>
> steven
>
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