On Sat, 02 Sep, 2006 at 11:20PM +0300, juuso.alasuutari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx spake thus: > Something's bothering me about making beats in Linux (without a dime to spare on > a hardware synth): The lack of high-quality hi-hat samples. > > I recently fell in love with a site called Freesound [0], but although I've > found great samples there I'm still missing those crisp, airy hats I hear when > listening to "real" music. (You may not share my taste for psychedelic trance, > but you will know what I mean if you listen to e.g. Infected Mushroom.) > > Of course much of the sound is achieved with EQ's and effects, but one must > still have a decent starting point. The only hi-hats I seem find sound muddy > and heavy (I don't mean the genre of music, I mean that the hat hits won't > "dance" in the air above the head, if you know what I mean). Usually they're > also ruined by static background noise. :( > > I'm considering trying to locate some FOAF who owns a wavetable synth with > digital I/O so I could sample clean hi-hats, but I would much rather have them > home-made. Can anyone please point me to a free sample repository with > high-quality hats, or recommend a GPL'd drum synth? (I haven't tried Smack yet, > and I'm keeping my hopes up high - I'm sure it can say "smack" very well, and > I'm hoping the "tschik" will also please me. :)) I don't know where in the world you are, but try and get a hold of the UK magazines Future Music or Computer Music. They always carry lots of samples on the cover DVD. They aren't CC/GPL but you are granted a license to use them as you see fit, as if you'd bought the sample CD that they are taken from. Of course, a really good collection of CC samples of high quality would be nice, but I don't have the equipment to start it. James > Thanks, > Juuso > > [0] http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/ > > > This mail sent through L-secure: http://www.l-secure.net/ > >
