by John Bowen » Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:51 pm
Those of you familiar with the plug-in know that sample playback was not a major feature of this synth! It is also not a main focus of the hardware, as there are plenty of other products on the market that can handle all the details of sample mapping and key range, velocity switching, etc. On-board RAM is going to be used for a number of things, not just sample storage.
We can consider some way to have expandable RAM, I suppose, but I'm really afraid this sidetracks the project into a whole other beast. Once you start down the path of trying to be a sampler, you have all sorts of issues, such as sample editing, looping and processing, etc., etc., etc., all of which will definitely add delays to finishing it up for a timely release.
That is not to say, however, that future versions of the OS could not contain such functions; just that, for now, we have to focus on getting the main body of functions working correctly.
regards,
john b.
Those of you familiar with the plug-in know that sample playback was not a major feature of this synth! It is also not a main focus of the hardware, as there are plenty of other products on the market that can handle all the details of sample mapping and key range, velocity switching, etc. On-board RAM is going to be used for a number of things, not just sample storage.
We can consider some way to have expandable RAM, I suppose, but I'm really afraid this sidetracks the project into a whole other beast. Once you start down the path of trying to be a sampler, you have all sorts of issues, such as sample editing, looping and processing, etc., etc., etc., all of which will definitely add delays to finishing it up for a timely release.
That is not to say, however, that future versions of the OS could not contain such functions; just that, for now, we have to focus on getting the main body of functions working correctly.
regards,
john b.