FS#38331 - [linuxsampler] please add sf2 and sfz support

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Uli (Army) - Tuesday, 31 December 2013, 10:04 GMT
Last edited by Ray Rashif (schivmeister) - Wednesday, 01 January 2014, 15:44 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Ray Rashif (schivmeister)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

Starting linuxsampler, I get this output

$ linuxsampler
LinuxSampler 1.0.0
Copyright (C) 2003,2004 by Benno Senoner and Christian Schoenebeck
Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Christian Schoenebeck
Detected features: MMX SSE SSE2
Automatic Stacktrace: Off
Creating Sampler...OK
Registered sampler engines: 'GIG'
Registered MIDI input drivers: ALSA,JACK
Registered audio output drivers: ALSA,JACK
Loading instrument editor plugins...OK
Registered instrument editors:
Starting LSCP network server (0.0.0.0:8888)...OK
LinuxSampler initialization completed. :-)

The important line is

Registered sampler engines: 'GIG'

which tells me, that sf2 and sfz soundfonts aren't supported. But linuxsampler clearly supports those formats.

I tried to build it myself and add this, but I couldn't find out how. Are there special dependencies missing?
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Closed by  Ray Rashif (schivmeister)
Wednesday, 01 January 2014, 15:44 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  Features only available in development version - will look into packaging that instead.
Comment by Uli (Army) - Tuesday, 31 December 2013, 10:10 GMT
I'm sorry, just realized, that those formats are only supported in the development version. Looks like this software is very out of date :(
Comment by Ray Rashif (schivmeister) - Wednesday, 01 January 2014, 07:50 GMT
  • Field changed: Severity (Medium → Low)
Yes, it is. At the time (a long time ago), releases did happen. The project is not dead and it's the only one of its kind. I'll see if packaging the development version is feasible at this point. Have you been using the development version for long?
Comment by Uli (Army) - Wednesday, 01 January 2014, 14:09 GMT
Actually I've just started to look into it, search for free soundfonts etc. Right now I'm looking into carla (it's in the AUR), which supports sfz. I'm not sure where's the exact difference between those two projects...

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