Benno, I am a GigaStudio user, but I;'ve never built a complicated .gig file. Are you looking for someone to do this? If so, I could check it out and see what I can come up with. If you are just looking for someone to test the gig file someone else here makes, I'd be very happy to do that. In either case I would certainly compare the sound of this gig file with the sounds I get for the 4 grand piano gig libraries I've purchased. Let me know how I might be able to help the most. Cheers, Mark On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 08:22, Benno Senoner wrote: > The free sampled piano is here: > http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html (click on the Piano link) > > It is quite large, abot 1.5GB (each note sampled individually in 3 > velocities: pp, mf, ff). > I do not know how good the quality of this piano is, Steve Harris > hacked together a small player and posted some mp3s that were rendered > from a MIDI file driving his application. > To me it does not sound that great, perhaps you need to tune > the velocity splits to make it sound well. > > Anyway this sampleset is really large and can hardly fit into RAM. > SF2 was not created to be streamed from disk thus I suggest the following. > > We of the linuxsampler team made significant progress in .GIG playback > thanks to the wonderful work done by Christian S. > He actually wrote libgig which is able to parse and load .GIG file > supporting all the articulation stuff (layering, key/velocity switching, > dimensions etc). > > see our new webpage (thanks Marek ;-) ) > http://www.linuxsampler.org > > (the new code is not online yet, because Christian and I are fixing bugs > and optimizing the streaming). > > I cannot make forecasts when full GIG playback will be done, but shortly > (1-2 weeks) we will release a version that can play back the samples > (without effects, and envelopes for now). > > This means we will soon be able to play the MIS piano directly streamed > from disk using LinuxSampler. > > So the advice to Atti and others is: > One of you should use a Windows app which allows you to create .GIG > files (with GigaStudio being the natural choice), download the MIS > samples, tune volume, velocity-splits, trim samples (some samples have a > bit of silence at the beginning etc) and make a .GIG file out of it. > > After the piano sounds good in GigaStudio you should post it online. > That way as soon as LinuxSampler is ready (the piano sample does not > require filters, envelopes etc) we can release a truly free > Grandpiano in software (samples + player). > > To compare how well the MIS piano .GIG you will create ,sounds I suggest > you to use this page: > > http://www.af.lu.se/~fogwall/piano.html > > On that page you find a classical music midi file > Fantaisie-Impromptu (Chopin) > > and the corresponding audio clips rendered with various > digital pianos, hardware expanders and software samples > (including VST The Grand, various multi-Gigabyte piano samples for > Gigasampler etc). > > Not sure about the quality we can achieve, for example the MIS piano > does not include pedal down samples. > IANAPP (I am not a piano player) so I do not know if this is a big > disadvantage that makes it sound unprofessional. > > Worth a try anyway. > > What do you think ? > > cheers, > Benno > > > >> * sample the grandpiano of the latest Roland/Korg/Yamaha electric >piano > >> * give the sample away > >> * package it (sf2) and put it on my web site > >> > > > if you are prepared to go through all the pain of trimming and looping > > zillions of samples, why not do the real thing ? > > there is a raw set of steinway grand samples floating around on the net > > somewhere (was even announced to this list iirc), and i think it's even > > an anechoic recording. > > the license was something along the lines of "free for the taking". > > >
