Re: [fluid-dev] hauptwerk

[John Dey]

Fons,

I responded to a email re aeolus.  I mentioned the capability that you 
provided to edit sound font files.  I was asked questions that are over 
my head and decided to pass the thread, listed below, along to you or 
others to see if any of you would be willing to respond.  Thanks.

John

John
On Jul 31, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Josh Green wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 14:24 -0400, John Dey wrote:
> > Josh,
> >
> > I would be interested in seeing a converter script if or when you code
> > it up.
>
> There is already a Python script for creating a SoundFont file from 
> wave
> files.  Its just a matter of adapting it to this special case.  Is 
> there
> any information that can be derived from the name of the files for
> Hauptwerk instruments?  How do you tell what notes they are for 
> example,
> is there a directory layout?  If I knew these details, it would really
> help ;)
>
> > Are you aware of Fons Adriaensen's Aeolus Pipe Organ synthesizer?  His
> > approach for sound generation is to create samples using additive
> > synthesis.  The samples are created a priori and can be saved to a 
> > file
> > for future use.  I know nothing about the formats that he uses.  He
> > does provide a sound font editor that is capable of changing the sound
> > parameters.
>
> No, I haven't heard of that.  Sounds interesting though.  Is it really 
> a
> SoundFont editor that he provides or do you just mean that its an 
> editor
> which allows you to change the parameters?
>
> > John
>
>
> Best regards,
>         Josh