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by andy2i
Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:20 pm
Forum: Linux Music News
Topic: sfArk to sf2 converter
Replies: 6
Views: 9575

Re: sfArk to sf2 converter

I'm happy too :) Thanks for your great work.
by andy2i
Sat Jan 12, 2013 12:28 pm
Forum: Linux Distributions & Other Software
Topic: dssi-vst and "best" distribution for a DAW
Replies: 11
Views: 9859

Re: dssi-vst and "best" distribution for a DAW

Hexter sounds cool. I used to have a DX21 :)
by andy2i
Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:23 pm
Forum: Linux Distributions & Other Software
Topic: dssi-vst and "best" distribution for a DAW
Replies: 11
Views: 9859

Re: dssi-vst and "best" distribution for a DAW

You can't just put the words "stable" and "dssi-vst" in the same sentence... :lol: dssi-vst (and any other Windows based solution in Linux) is a potential crash on the host. :( I suppose some level of instability is hardly surprising, too much glue and duct tape I guess, albeit ...
by andy2i
Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:35 pm
Forum: Linux Distributions & Other Software
Topic: dssi-vst and "best" distribution for a DAW
Replies: 11
Views: 9859

Re: dssi-vst and "best" distribution for a DAW

I really have had some bad experiances with ubuntu studio. Every time I use it jack is bugged to where it just doesn't work and it seems like there are a ton of broken packages. I would just install the kxstudio ppas It has everything on there and falktx makes sure everything works. There is docume...
by andy2i
Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:11 pm
Forum: Linux Distributions & Other Software
Topic: dssi-vst and "best" distribution for a DAW
Replies: 11
Views: 9859

dssi-vst and "best" distribution for a DAW

I've searched but there seem to be no references to dssi-vst - http://breakfastquay.com/dssi-vst Is anybody using it and how well does it work? The limitations described on that homepage are pretty significant. Is there any other approach to using VSTi plugins under Linux? And with or without dssi-V...
by andy2i
Fri Jan 11, 2013 11:45 am
Forum: Linux Music News
Topic: New sfArk utility for Linux
Replies: 34
Views: 33425

Re: New sfArk utility for Linux

But since what is stored derives from this "predicted value", then if the decompressor's calculations differ from the compressor's, then you have what is for all practical purposes a lossy decompression because the resulting soundfont will be different from the original. What you are desc...
by andy2i
Wed Jan 09, 2013 11:38 am
Forum: Linux Music News
Topic: New sfArk utility for Linux
Replies: 34
Views: 33425

Re: New sfArk utility for Linux

... a programmer should do such conversions only if small rounding errors are irrelevant, which they are not in what is supposed to be a lossless compression algorithm. That would be true if the source data were converted between integer and floating point - it is not - only the prediction values. ...
by andy2i
Tue Jan 08, 2013 11:14 pm
Forum: Linux Music News
Topic: New sfArk utility for Linux
Replies: 34
Views: 33425

Re: New sfArk utility for Linux

What i *think* Jeff is seeing as 'rounding errors' here is that he appears to have taken a binary (possibly compiled with architecture-specific optimizations) and disassembled that. That'd easily produce code that doesn't work accurately on other architectures. Just guessing here though. I've alrea...
by andy2i
Tue Jan 08, 2013 6:29 pm
Forum: Linux Music News
Topic: New sfArk utility for Linux
Replies: 34
Views: 33425

Re: New sfArk utility for Linux

And now that that is over and done, and for anybody that might find it interesting, here are a few actual facts ... * The original version of sfArk was available in 1997 and generally released in 1998. It was intended as a fairly quick fix for a significant problem - large audio files and slow inter...