On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 08:46:42AM -0400, Forest Bond wrote: > > The issue here is that Mr Bond wants a sampler like Kontakt that works > > with Linux audio systems and saves its state. The best way to achieve > > that is to work on a free alternative, eg, Linux Sampler. >
> In any case, Linux Sampler and Kontakt are > different sorts of samplers at this point. Linux Sampler is more in the spirit > of Gigasampler, and Kontakt is more like an emulation of a hardware sampler > (but > vastly more flexible). The key words there are "at this point." As noted, the *long-term* potential of Linux Sampler is probably still much greater than Kontakt-in-wine. > > Forest, you might reconsider your decision that fst has the most > > long-term potential and check out Linux Sampler instead; specifically > > QSampler. > > Noted. However, I remain unconvinced that Linux Sampler is intended to be a > drop-in replacement for something like Kontakt. I don't think it's intended to be a drop-in replacement for Kontakt; I think it's just intended to be cool. Bob