On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:00:58PM +0200, Roberto Gordo Saez wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:50 PM > Subject: Free Yamaha grand piano soundfont > To: freepats@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > Another free soundfont for the free sotfware community, this time > resembling a Yamaha Disklavier Pro piano. Creative Commons > Attribution 3.0 license. Enjoy! > > 52 samples at 44100Hz, 16bit. Size 45.5MiB. > > Example music rendered through the soundfont: > > - Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 13, "Pathétique", 1st movement > (Ludwig van Beethoven) > http://zenvoid.org/audio/beethoven_sonata_op13_pathetique_m1_20080808.ogg > > - Für Elise (Ludwig van Beethoven): > http://zenvoid.org/audio/beethoven_fur_elise_20080808.ogg > > I've added a reverb to those music files in order to please to > my friend Aaron ;-) > > The soundfont is here: > http://zenvoid.org/i/audio.html > > There will be more releases, I will try to improve quality. I'm > working in loops (currently there are no loops) and more layers. > > It is built from the Zenph Studios Yamaha Disklavier Pro Piano > Multisamples for OLPC. The OLPC project recently released a > collection of samples under CC-BY license; in particular, this > multisampled piano is very good. > > According to Dr. Richard Boulanger, there will be a complete > General MIDI soundfont released soon under CC-BY license! It > will be probably a small soundfont, optimized for the OLPC > project, and good for embeded or normal desktop usage (I think). > I hope it could be used as the default General MIDI soundfont in > most GNU/Linux distributions. Very good news. Of course, high > quality samples will still be wanted for specialized > distributions and professional audio composition. > Thanks! Sounds very nice. It seems like it's in mono, though. Either that or there's not very much stereo separation. I may use this font live when running in mono. I prefer the Steinway stereo soundfont but it tends to sound more like a celesta when summed into mono due to phasing issues. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
