On Monday 15 September 2008 19:33:59 Stephen Doonan wrote: > Roberto Gordo Saez wrote: > > [...] So why I'm > > strugling to make those soundfonts? Because nobody else does! > > > > [...] There are very few people willing to give their time > > to create free soundfonts [...] > > > > Just exactly like free software, free samples need to be unambiguously > > placed under a free license by *its author*. And of course the author > > *must* be identified. Thinking that they are free because the author > > is unkown is just too much optimistic. [...] > > > > So my first and most important goal is to create a collection of free > > samples for several instruments. Next, it is required to create > > soundfonts from those samples. With my "demo" soundfonts I just hope > > to get the attention of some people. We manage to get high quality, > > free software operating systems, thanks to the collaboration of many > > people, so I still hope that people start to join to the freepats > > project, stop using their pirated, "semi-free" or proprietary > > soundfonts and begin to think about actually working on creating > > really free, high quality soundfonts. > > Personally, I for one wholeheartedly agree with everything you stated > (abbreviated with ellipses in the quote above) > > >> Why Bigger Isn't Better -- by William Coakley > >> http://williamcoakley.com/articles.php?article=bigger.php > > > > This is a quote from the article: > > > > "[...] it takes LESS time and LESS work to develop a 3 gigabyte piano > > than it does a beautiful thirty two megabyte piano[...]" > > > > It's true. If only two layers are used, a lot of work is needed to > > create fake layers in the middle. It is needed to carefully filter > > higher harmonics and blend the result. It could easily take months of > > work. > > > > But I don't agree with some of the statments given in the article. > > It is certainly possible to create fake intermediate layers that sound > > as good as the real ones, but claiming that they can sound *better* > > than the real notes recorded from the piano is no more than a beatiful > > way to advertise his soundfonts. > > I think it is important to have plenty of samples for the frequency > range--the full range of a piano from bass notes to treble notes--but > not so important to have many samples of the dynamic range of each > sampled frequency/note. I'm speaking of the piano; other instruments are > probably different, of course. > > I think that one of the problems is that soundfonts do not allow > crossfading of layers (do they?). Instead, layers in soundfonts play at > their full volume for every MIDI note that is within their assigned > range of MIDI notes. Therefore you can't specify two layers, both > extending the full range of MIDI notes, but each attenuating by a fixed > amount from either the top or bottom of their assigned range of notes. > > Am I correct about this? This is the first day I have done any research > about soundfonts. However, after downloading and trying your very fine > Disklavier soundfont, I installed the soundfont editor swami and have > begun to "play" with the soundfont and to alter it in some ways to more > suit my own particular taste as a musician and piano player. It's fun. > When I am happy with the sound, I will be happy to upload a copy for > anyone to use. :-) > > > Producing a good soundfont with less layers and half the size would > > be desirable, but unfortunatelly I'm unable to do that myself alone. > > If someone is willing to donate his time to work in this area, > > please let me know, it would be great. > > I understand your sentiment. I have volunteered for many things in the > past, and have always arrived at the angry and frustrated conclusion > that just 10% of the people who benefit from any particular work do 90% > of the work. :-) That may be but take heart. We still have all of this wonderful Free software to use as a result of this imperfect process and it is starting to go well (gentle please) for other areas as well. > > Best wishes, > Steve all the best, drew http://zotz.kompoz.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
