Re: [Mscore-developer] Playback abstraction layer

2016-04-04 Thread Peter Eastman
I realize I may have been unclear on one point. In all of the above, when I talk about "MIDI" I'm really talking about "external MIDI devices". Ones where you just specify a port and channel, and messages get sent there, and what happens then is completely out of MuseScore's control. Both Fluid

Re: [Mscore-developer] Playback abstraction layer

2016-04-04 Thread Peter Eastman
lasconic wrote > So a big part of your proposal revolves around VSTi and so currently, > external synth and the use of Jack MIDI, correct? VSTi would be a nice feature to have some day, but not at all essential for this. Jack MIDI is fine for my purposes. Peter -- View this message in context

Re: [Mscore-developer] Playback abstraction layer

2016-04-04 Thread Lasconic
I will try to comment further later. Just trying to wrap my head around the complete picture. go to commercial packages Which are not usable in Zerberus because the samples are encrypted right? So a big part of your proposal revolves around VSTi and so currently, external synth and the use of Jack

Re: [Mscore-developer] Playback abstraction layer

2016-04-04 Thread Peter Eastman
I often use Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra, which also includes a staccato version of many instruments. But for really large sets of articulations, you need to go to commercial packages. See, for example, http://www.garritan.com/UserManuals/GPO5/Content/directory.htm or http://www.soundsonline.c

Re: [Mscore-developer] Playback abstraction layer

2016-04-04 Thread Marc Sabatella
Are there any freely available soundfonts (SF2 or SFZ) that actually do any of this (provide multiple samples for all these different articulations)? If so, can you point to some documentation on how they are set up? Or maybe there are standards for this? On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:37 AM Peter Eas

Re: [Mscore-developer] Playback abstraction layer

2016-04-04 Thread Peter Eastman
Yeah, that's about what I figured. And really, it shouldn't matter to MuseScore what file format a particular synth uses, or even what synthesis method it uses. What matters is how to control that synth. What interface should it use, and what sequence of commands should it send with that interfa

Re: [Mscore-developer] Playback abstraction layer

2016-04-04 Thread ChurchOrganist
Peter Eastman wrote > I'm not sure which approach is better. That depends on how the > synthesizers are implemented, and I'm not at all familiar with the > MuseScore source code. (I've skimmed it a bit, but that's all.) Well I can tell you that at synthesiser level both Zerberus and FluidSynth a