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IrionDaRonin · Post by **IrionDaRonin** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:23 pm

In Wav format, please.

Have a good day

3ee · Post by **3ee** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:01 pm

highkoo wrote:Imvho creating a sample or preset pack does not usually compare to the effort required to create the apps. Nor does the usefullness of the tool in the end, usually. So to have them be on similar stages feels perhaps shitty to hard working devs?

They are not in similar stages, even the prize is split like it... only 10% for soundware. ...and sample packs or patch banks take huge amounts of time to create! ..and reasonable amount of effort too.

IMO, sample packs / sound sets can be as important but can't be compared with plugins of course.

If you don't have sounds to work with, you can't put a plugin on top, simple as that... not to mention all the time and effort they save you for finding or creating or skill to play a certain something (loops or midi) ...

If you were also referring to the Reaktor stuff or similar, I think we can agree that they can't and shouldn't be considered soundware because they are clearly something else.

highkoo · Post by **highkoo** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:37 pm

Yes I was not implying at all that a good sample pack is easy to create. Its just the comparison between the two.
I put it this way; Even a really bad vsti is difficult to build. A good one is something special. Its the difference between being a racecar driver and building racecars. There are many drivers, many races, many cars. But, not so many people turning out new models of cars.

Yeah it is split up and thats good. I would just not like to see a situation where someones "regular old" 2 OSC synth is getting no attention at all, while something like a sample pack of randomized Synplant sounds gets +1s for being accessible and 'crazy'. Not that that would be bad for the community. It just doesnt feel like the right vibe for a "DC". I mean, I think we also do not want to see forty sound pack entries and five plugins...

3ee · Post by **3ee** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 12:56 am

highkoo wrote:... Even a really bad vsti is difficult to build.

It just doesnt feel like the right vibe for a "DC". I mean, I think we also do not want to see forty sound pack entries and five plugins...

Don't worry, I assume that would be the other way around.

Well, it's more like the KVR vibe.. but dunno.. I'm happy with the soundware idea and looking forward on what will ppl come up with... might be something totally new!

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:12 am

3ee wrote: If you were also referring to the Reaktor stuff or similar, I think we can agree that they can't and shouldn't be considered soundware because they are clearly something else.

Simply, Reaktor ensembles are plugins that work directly in only one host, but, that host itself is a VST plugin which works in many other hosts.

3ee · Post by **3ee** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:23 pm

So, how are the sample sets coming along?

rsmus7 · Post by **rsmus7** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 9:19 pm

anyone done a set yet?

I'm thinking of doing a mixed bank for some freeware synth plugins

I would like to do it for pc and mac

does someone know how I can convert the patches from pc to mac?
or can anyone help me in doing it?

and I don't have a mac

3ee · Post by **3ee** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:50 pm

rsmus7 wrote:anyone done a set yet?

I'm thinking of doing a mixed bank for some freeware synth plugins

I would like to do it for pc and mac

does someone know how I can convert the patches from pc to mac?
or can anyone help me in doing it?

and I don't have a mac

nothing so far.. but as soon as I'll have a "great" idea.. I'll be working non-stop I guess.

pc vs mac .. well, depending on what synth you'll use but in general, the patches should load just fine on whatever platform if the synth supports, no?

rsmus7 · Post by **rsmus7** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:52 am

3ee wrote:

pc vs mac .. well, depending on what synth you'll use but in general, the patches should load just fine on whatever platform if the synth supports, no?

no idea, as I don' t have a mac to test it

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:26 pm

sorry for the hassle, but i want to know what is the limitation in size for a sound library than can be uploaded for the contest ?

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:33 pm

ghettosynth wrote: Simply, Reaktor ensembles are plugins that work directly in only one host

bullshit; they're no more that than a sysex file is a synth that works directly in the hardware it gets sent to, or a .xls file does its own sums.

3ee · Post by **3ee** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:25 pm

Krakatau wrote:sorry for the hassle, but i want to know what is the limitation in size for a sound library than can be uploaded for the contest ?

I have no idea.. didn't saw anything about any size limit.
...in that case I suggest setting "limit" in order not to bore ppl with too much and also to have enough so that the pack feels chunky when held

rsmus7 · Post by **rsmus7** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 5:28 pm

I didn't see any limit for the size either,
but I think a ...gigabyte library might be a bit too much
when some thousend peeps wanna download it

but what do I know

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