IIwusynth is really nice and performs well, its a soundfont software sampler, and swamii is a soundfont editor that uses it for its engine. I get good realtime playback on my laptop and have access to tons of soundfonts on cdrom.
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Steve Harris wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:00:58 +0200, Miha Tom¹ič wrote: > > This is what LAD HP has to say on the topic: > > "After a long thread on LAD about the need of a disk-based real-time > > sampler, Benno has hacked up a very alpha implementation of a Then > > Unnamed Sampler to summarize the state of discussion. Eventually, > > others joined the effort and thus the EVO Project was born. Current > > version 0.0.6 has experimental support for the .GIG file format." > > I spoke with Benno recently and he said he inteded to restart work on Evo > soonish (ie. when he recovers from exams etc.). > > Juan Linetski(sp?) was thinking of a jack based soft sampler too, but he > wanted to start with ram hosted samples. > > - Steve >