Petri-Foo is a fork of the Specimen sampler project. Specimen was originally developed by Pete Bessman[1]. Petri-Foo was forked from Specimen SVN revision 89 by James Morris in February of 2011.
The current release is petri-foo-0.1.87.tar.bz2 released on 6th August 2012. This is a bug-fix release and is the recommended version for most users.
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Petri-Foo
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Petri-Foo is a fork of the Specimen Sampler project. Specimen was
originally developed by Pete Bessman. See the AUTHORS file for
the list of other authors who've made contributions.
Petri-Foo is forked and developed by James Morris (Feb 2011 +),
with recent code contributions by Brendan Jones (July 2011 +).
Differences, additions and improvements over Specimen
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* Default patch with saw-wave sample.
* Raw/Headerless sample file loading.
* JACK session support.
* Non Session Manager support with switch functionality.
* 'Full Save' for archiving patch banks and the samples each patch uses.
* Auto-Preview samples within the file selector.
* User-interface updated to contemporary GTK2 standards.
* Improved waveform rendering.
* Improved visual indication of play and loop selections.
* Play and loop point navigation.
* Improved waveform zooming, and addition of mouse-wheel zooming.
* Fading and X-Fading of sample.
* Improved MIDI CC handling.
* User-configurable modulation routing of ADSR, LFO, and MIDI CC.
* Keyboard tracking, and inverted keyboard tracking.
* Overall ADSR time scalable by keyboard tracking.
* Per-patch velocity range.
* Invertible velocity sensing.
* Amplitude modulation of LFO output.
* Removal of deprecated code, and customized PHAT library
for an improved life-span.
* Last-used directory recall.
* Shift/Control + Left-Mouse-Click for increased slider precision.
* JACK Audio output only, ALSA audio output removed[2].
* Removed LASH support.
[1] See the AUTHORS file for the list of other authors who've made contributions to Specimen.
[2] Although ALSA audio output has been removed, ALSA MIDI support is still in place.