I'm currently working on new SFZ mappings of all the kits I have (everything but the two new ones) for use in players like Garritan's ARIA and LinuxSampler. It's coming along well (I've done most of the Close samples for RockStock). As the new players have streaming, it's a lot faster loading the kits than in sfz itself. I'm now also following the Analogue Drums mapping, rather than the ndk mapping.

Is it still okay to post these on my site? http://www.drealm.info/sfz/AnalogueDrums/

Right, it's all done.

Analogue Drums layout mappings for SFZ/ARIA Player for:

• Big Mono
• PopSticks
• RockStock
• SplitSticks
• and the Snare City add-on pack

are now available, include ARIA Player "*.ariax" files for the kits, from my site, link above.

I'm currently using Kontakt 4 and I've never used SFZ or any soundfont player. Is there any advantage to SFZ over Kontak?

Kontakt costs money or only gives you 15 minutes in the "Player" demo. SFZ-supporting samplers like LinuxSampler are free (ARIA Player only comes bundled with a pay-for product). That's pretty much it. Oh, and it's a factor of several thousand times easier editing a plain text file than it is trying to create a Kontakt mapping (but that doesn't affect end users ).

Oops, just realised I'd got the mappings out by an octave vs the Kontakt ones. I've uploaded corrected versions. If you downloaded before the time of this post, please pull the archive again. Link still as in first message.

Sorry, just realised what was still wrong: I'd omitted to turn off velocity tracking, so the kits sounded rather muted! I've updated the archive with the corrected version. Apologies to anyone who'd already downloaded but please get another copy.

Fantastic work, I was hoping someone would do mappings for Kontakt but they haven't appeared so far.

So these mappings you've done will give the user control over the volumes of the individual components of the kit, along with independent control over the room mic volumes?

Also, I've tried downloading the linux sampler but the files looked like jibberish to me so I hadn't a clue how to install it and finding info on how to correctly install it has been sparse.


Thanks for the good work!

Mark.

All you need is one file for Windows: http://download.linuxsampler.org/packag ... _setup.exe
No idea on the other platforms. There's disk image for MacOSX and a HOWTO...

I'm not sure how well it will work in LinuxSampler, really -- I didn't spend much time on it, to be honest. Now there's a new build out (yesterday!), I'll try again.

I've not set the kit mappings up to allow individual control of piece volumes. I tend not to work that way and it's easy enough to open the kits up in a text editor and do the changes. (I don't like wasting MIDI CCs...)

Both LinuxSampler and ARIA Player support SFZ2, which I need to spend more time learning - it has some handy features I've not really explored, particularly around host integration I believe. That might make the volume thing easier.

Right, I've managed to get BigMono loaded and working in LinuxSampler now. Not made easier by the lack of support for "end=-1" and no real way to create a muted region. So I had to fake one for the hihat mutes.

I'll get the other kits done before putting a link up to an archive with the whole lot in.

OK, the LinuxSampler-compatible mappings are all up on the page linked above now.