Re: Web Audio and Pro Sample Libraries

On the same subject, Noteflight's Web Audio based synth incorporates dozens of sampled acoustic instruments, many of which were adapted (fully licensed of course) from a pre-existing sample library hosted in a well-known commercial VST-based sampler. The important concepts mostly carry over quite well, even if the implementation is different.

…Joe

On Sep 27, 2013, at 5:09 AM, Chris Lowis <chris.lowis@gmail.com> wrote:

> This doesn't answer the question of whether VST plugins can be ported
> to Web Audio - but if you're interested mainly in massively-sampled
> acoustic instruments (which the Albion library appears to have) then
> this Web Audio based sampled piano might be interesting:
> 
> http://labs.plan8.se/cloudspiano/   (/via cwilso
> https://plus.google.com/+ChrisWilson/posts/bsfkAi4iHB9)
> 
> It shows a little of what is possible today, at least. If the license
> of the VST plugin you have purchases allows the re-use of the samples
> themselves, then it might be possible to use them in something like
> this?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 27 September 2013 09:53, Paul Adenot <padenot@mozilla.com> wrote:
>> On 27/09/2013 10:44, Marcus Geelnard wrote:
>>> Instead I hope for another scenario: Once Web Audio gets some mainstream
>>> traction, I hope that we'll see a growing community of developers
>>> providing "plugins" for Web Audio. These could be implemented entirely
>>> in JavaScript, or they could make use of the existing building blocks in
>>> the Web Audio API.
>> 
>> I've found [1] the other day, which seem to be exactly what you
>> describe. Their site seems to not be working too well at the moment, but
>> they seem to have a bunch of stuff already done.
>> 
>> I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, though.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Paul.
>> 
>> [1]: https://github.com/web-audio-components/
>> 
> 
> 

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