On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Paul Coccoli wrote: > So are you going to release that sample set or what?! I suppose I could.. It's really nothing anyone couldn't do with some good mics and a sampler. Right now it's online at: http://www.keycorner.org/pub/midi/mpc/ It's not everything in that directory, just the files that end in .tar.bz2. They're about 50MB each. If you extract those, you end up with raw disk images that you can 'dd' onto zip disks, which can be read by an MPC2000 with a SCSI zip drive. Of course the sndfile-info and sndfile-convert commands offer the possibility of loopback-mounting them as FAT, and then renaming each file according to the real long filename stored in its metadata, too. After that you could convert to WAV and use however you like without an Akai. These files are in this crude format because all they're meant to do is provide backups for me when zip disks fail. I haven't done anything to make them particularly easy to use at this point. Also, I once had the Alesis HR16:A and HR16:B drum machine pair, and since those machines really offer nothing in the way of sound programming besides detuning, I sampled and sold them a long time ago. Those were the kind of drum machines that did not amount to more than the samples in their ROMs. As for the drums themselves, they're nothing special, other than their nostalgic value to me. The main reason I wanted them in the form of a sample set is because, looking at all the sample libraries that I'd ever seen, the market was filled with techno drums, studio drums, processed drums, hiphop drums, even country drums...but no drums drums. I got sick of all the processing and special EQ in these sample libraries, which may or may not actually go with the song you're working on. It seemed absurd that nobody ever seemed to simply offer a drumset, miced, unprocessed, and not EQ'ed, as a sample library. That kind of sound treatment is the kind of thing you probably want to do yourself on your own mixer for the song you happen to be working on. (And it's quite useful in an apartment!) So if you're interested, go ahead and download, and please try to remember, it's my residential cable connection. The things in my /pub directory are offered for whoever may find an interest in the non-private files I've got laying around anyway. -- + Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys + UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will + University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of + Physical Sciences Div. + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, + James Franck Institute + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
