Hello. Regarding the recent discussion, would anyone else be interested in creating a free sound library? Both the instrumental sounds and the sound effects. How to organize such a project? From my experience the most difficult part is in getting the equipment together. We need to match the people who have the equipment (or money) and the people who are willing to record the sounds. (I'm only in the second group, unfortunately.) We need -Microphone -Portable recorder and/or a sound-proof recording studio -Music instruments Microphone could be of any quality if that is only what we have. The portable recorder as well need not be a quality device if that is all we have. This is so because it is better to get the project started now. I have a cheap stereo microphone. Anyone could borrow me a portable MiniDisc recorder? Anything which has stereo microphone input? We need recording guides for how and what to record. I have already sound effect catalogs of Sound Ideas so the "what" should not be a problem. We archive the raw recordings even for the instrument sounds, because different group of people can then make proper synth sound files out of the raw recordings. For sound effects we take the modern approach by assuming that the effects can be postprocessed: for example, we don't arrange and mix "horses, men, swords, fighting" sound effects, but instead, we assume the end-users are cabable of arranging the fight scenes theirself. Similarly we assume the end-users have full environmental acoustics processing tools: for example, a passing car can be made with doppler and suitable acoustics. So, with the sound library we could provide a 3D geometry editing software with 3D acoustics: 3D scene + animation. Best regards, Juhana
