[PD] Sample loop - start and end point (WAV files)

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

Ingo, did you have any luck on this throughout the year?

I'm also curious on this. Anyway, I had another thread here and someone
suggested http://loopauditioneer.sourceforge.net/ that seems to read loop
points - but I can't test it because it's linux

Em qua., 12 de fev. de 2020 às 05:39, Ingo <ingo at miamiwave.com> escreveu:

> There are softwares like AwaveStudio that do nothing else but format
> conversion between different sampler formats that can handle the loop
> points
> as well.
>
>
> > I have been working with hardware samplers since the 80ies and used
> > (mainly) softwares like SoundForge or Wavelab for looping.
> > There was no extra file. All hardware samplers could read the loops.
> Once a
> > file was looped with one sampler it would be looped with the next one.
> > Same thing with modern software Samplers like Kontakt.
> > I can use a sample that I looped in Wavelab and load it into SoundForge
> and
> > it
> > recognizes the loops.
> > (There are options for multiple loops, though that might not work with
> some
> > samplers.)
> >
> > It can't be such a secret since over 30 years that all manufacturers
> > (software
> > or hardware) know about it but noone else.
> > I have been looking around but couldn't find any information where the
> > loops are stored in the file but they definitely are.
> >
> > Ingo
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Pd-list [mailto:pd-list-bounces at lists.iem.at] On Behalf Of Roman
> > > Haefeli
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 8:48 AM
> > > To: pd-list at lists.iem.at
> > > Subject: Re: [PD] Sample loop - start and end point (WAV files)
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2020-02-11 at 21:22 -0800, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
> > > > Well, I was really really hoping to see information here on how to
> > > > get loop points from these files ;)
> > >
> > > I looked around for specifications of the .wav-format and I wasn't
> > > able to find one that looks canonical. The ones I found didn't mention
> > > any loop start- and endpoints. I wonder whether there is a convention
> > > about how to encode this into some sort of metadata stored with file.
> > > Some description of the format describe the ability to store anything
> > > as metdata. Personally, I never dealt with such files (at least not
> > > knowingly). Maybe a good start would be to provide such a file, so
> > > that people can a have a look at it. It might be not that difficult to
> > > retrieve such data with something like mrpeach's [binfile], once you
> know
> > how it is stored.
> > >
> > >
> > > Roman
>
>
>
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