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Or the same question from another angle, if there was home brew dp software on Linux, would it ever gather enough steam from the miniscule user-base to be worth the time invested?
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What do you mean exactly by "home brew dp software"?
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Most likely anything that works under linux would be recompiled and used played under windows as well. The question you probably mean to ask is about free-as-in-freedom dp software.
Vid's question is still valid. A software piano consists of a whole bunch of parts: samples, scripts, a player, possibly a VST host, etc.
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Do you mean a SW framework for making your own samples, perhaps? Or, on the contrary, facilities to completely customise existing professional samples from Yamaha, Native Instruments et al. Though I assume you mean the former, since extensive tweakability already exists in current SW pianos.
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There have been a couple of attempts at virtual organs which allow you to produce your own samplesets, they might be a useable base to produce home-brew piano software.
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What do you mean exactly by "home brew dp software"? I mean, you plug your DP / VPC1 into a Linux box, and a custom program there pumps out the audio either by pre-recorded samples, or synthesis. Seems like everything is Windows-based. I wrote a bit of Linux software, but not sure it's worth the time to continue.
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Or the same question from another angle, if there was home brew dp software on Linux, would it ever gather enough steam from the miniscule user-base to be worth the time invested? Your own choice of words answers the question. . Charles PS -- this has nothing to do with the question: . . . Would Linux be a good base for a complete hardware+software DP ?
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PS -- this has nothing to do with the question:
. . . Would Linux be a good base for a complete hardware+software DP ?
No reason why not. The Korg Kronos, for example, is linux based.
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Well, could the physical sound module be a linux system, while the editing software on the user's computer was Windows based? The editing software could create a table (in text form? comma delimited?) indicating the velocity layer and amplitude and envelope of each sample, etc, and sending the data to the box would mainly be a matter of the linux software reading the table?
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would it ever gather enough steam from the miniscule user-base to be worth the time invested? Well, if you are writing it for Linux I assume you are intending it to be freeware, so the number of people who use it may not be a major factor, right? Actually the bigger problem, I'd say, is the same one linux gaming runs into: there's no technical issue with gaming on linux or software pianos on linux, but those endeavors include a lot of work that isn't fun and people won't do for free. In the case of the software piano, getting a top-shelf piano and recording equipment, recording all the samples (ad nauseum) and then spending a ton of time post-processing them to make sure they all work well together. Then there is programming up all the sympathetic resonance, repedalling, and other features. In other words, it's not really the player that's missing, is the samples and scripting. But until there are samples and scripting, it's not worth it to make a player. And with software pianos, as in games, people aren't ok with just one that works. They always want the BEST or nothing. What would work would be a UVI or Kontakt compatible player, for example, that could play some existing software piano. People would love that. But since software piano makers have been moving more and more toward DRMing their products, it might be technically hard. There might also be legal issues, but IANAL. I'm a full-time linux user and programmer, both at work and at home, and not one to discourage a new linux project, but I do think there's a reason we don't see a lot of software pianos on linux. Easier would be to persuade UVI or Kontakt to make a linux version of their players. PianoTeq did it with very little effort and apparently 5% or so of their buyers are on linux. Of course, there would have to be linux support by iLok as well.
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