-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Gordo Saez schrieb: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 08:29:44AM -0600, Stephen Doonan wrote: > > There are very, very few free samples out there. Really? - I was not aware of hat since I only use samples recorded by myself. > So my first and most important goal is to create a collection of free > samples for several instruments. I hear that as a wake up call. I was not completely asleep until now though: http://gnupc.de/~zettberlin/law/samples/free/ but I will upload more stuff to these folders now, hope it will help. All files here are made my me from scratch(analogue source, microphone, editors) and I release them under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. So all derivatives, including commercial ones are permitted. Drop me a line, if you would prefer a different (free) license. > Next, it is required to create > soundfonts from those samples. I must admit, that I basicly hate the concept of soundfonts. Most of them try to mimic a real instrument but the real thing is still the real thing. Much different I consider the usage of samples in real sampler-apps like Specimen, that allow to manipulate how each sample should sound like. So you can build new sounds using samples. Such sounds are something genuine then and not just a puny copy of a real instrument. Soundfonts are just too compact and closed. But of course thats my personal opinion and I know, that many people use soundfonts to produce cool music(and I fear I would not recognize if there is a real Rhodes in a song or a carefully made up soundfont of a Rhodes ;-)). So go on - use my samples in your soundfonts, if you have a use for them. But maybe we could collaborate in making banks for Specimen too. There is just one stupid obstacle: Specimen stores the path to the wav-files allways as an absolute path and it refuses to read them from a relative path. So the banks are not easily to be transported/distributed. I use to adjust the path by hand in the bankfiles if needed but of course thats not acceptable for the normal user.... Still Specimen is a great app to work with samples and I wish, it would have more attention... THis one is made within aprx. 15 minutes from scratch with Specimen(playing my guitarsamples see above) and Seq24: http://gnupc.de/~zettberlin/law/demos/specibasse.ogg best egs HZN -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIz3t/1Aecwva1SWMRAmQJAJ4vTpumbW5FxQLEjfox+8vqLU4FPwCfXQpI iaEqS5YHJ+2ASZcg3aNH3l0= =3H0Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
