Re: [fluid-dev] Supported Wave/Flac format other than SF2

[David Henningsson]

On 2015-02-05 16:39, Element Green wrote:
> I've brought up the subject before of adding support for libInstPatch,
> which is an instrument loading/saving/editing library that is at the
> heart of Swami.  Swami itself, utilizes FluidSynth to load formats
> supported by libInstPatch (currently SoundFont of course, including 24
> bit, SLI, and to a limited extent DLS and Gigasampler).  Such a library
> would be perfect for adding additional formats such as SFZ and other
> applications which use libInstPatch could then benefit as well from this
> support.
>
> Such support would be optional, so that FluidSynth wouldn't have to
> depend on libInstPatch, but could utilize it for additional formats.

Hi and thanks for chiming in - as you very likely know, all formats have 
their own quirks and ways of transforming the sample according to 
various rules, so SFZ/DLS/Gigasampler/etc support would require certain 
additions and changes to the playback core. Simply adding a dependency 
to libInstPatch does not seem to be sufficient - as other formats 
wouldn't exactly map 1:1 to SF2, we would be something that plays SF2 
really well (like today) but other formats slightly wrong.

Could you clarify how you think about this?

// David