Greg Wilder wrote: >>I'm quite sure that something like what you're describing already exists..... Might that be the FreeSound Project - http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/ Apparently, the samples are to be released under 'the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License'! ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/ ) Greg Wilder wrote: >>But what I'm talking about is a bit different. I'm talking about a community built and supported library of acoustic multi-sampled instruments. Various dynamics, articulations, mutes, etc. I can contribute the sound of a large concert grand piano - maybe someone has an interesting or rare guitar, bass, flute, or whatever. The high resolution factor might be optional, but it would certianly fill a major gap and give the commercial folks a run for their money. >>Not to go crazy here, but imagine a wiki-like interface that allows users to add their own instruments - there might eventually be dozens of different pianos, voices, harps, etc. If we created a set of agreed upon naming conventions (ie. .as2. for A sharp 2, .st. for staccato etc.) then we could also use simple scripts to do searches like: all muted strings sounding A4... >>Thoughts? Alternatively - rather than specifying the characteristics in the name of the file itself - you could use a database to keep record of it's characteristics. Specifying duration, dynamic, articulation, pitch and perhaps other things (e.g. sample rate, and mono/stereo) all in the name of the file might become somewhat unwieldy? Instead, you could use the same parameters as fields in a database, and be under less constraints with the naming convention. On the downside, this would only be of use to people who actually _had_ access to the database. Just thinking out loud! Your idea's really good though. In the meantime, there is a list of 'Sounds for Free' on Han's Frugal's mirror of the 'Sound and MIDI software for Linux' page - http://hans.fugal.net:2500/linuxaudio/show/HomePage --- http://83.141.72.40/~david/ --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
