Excerpts from alexander's message of 2010-04-01 00:43:20 +0200: > On 04/01/2010 12:50 AM, Arnold Krille wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:42:58 alexander wrote: > > > >> I'm currently making a rather big grand piano sample library. It is a > >> Yamaha C5 recorded with 2 AKG C414 in an AB position about 10cm above > >> the strings at 24bit48khz. It is downsampled to 16bit44.1khz because > >> gigedit couldn't save files larger than 2gb. It's sampled in minor > >> thirds with 17 velocity layers (some only 16 due to a nasty head ache > >> when I recorded) > >> > > I haven't actually listened to the demo yet, but: > > > > - Can we convince you of going 48kHz/24bits? That is far more common in audio > > production. Using 44.1kHz in a setup running at 48kHz includes possibly nasty > > artefacts from up-sampling and a loss of precision and frequencies. Down- > > sampling is far easier on the quality... > > Maybe its better to make do with one or two layers less. And maybe help to > > fix gigedit. linuxsampler is said to be able to do more then 2GB files. > > > > - When looking for compression for easier distribution: What about > > distributing a "source" archive that contains the wavpack/flac compressed raw > > samples, the gigedit file and a makefile for creation of the .gig-file? > > > > Have fun, > > > > Arnold > > > Hmm, how's that for a version 2.0? :) I haven't noticed any up-sampling > problems yet. But I do agree, 24bit48khz would be much more fun. I would > have to cut 3 layers at least, we're talking about shaving 0.6gb's here :) > > I think I'll just shove it down a bz2 archive.. Did you have contact with the gigedit authors? Maybe the fix is minor. It would be a pity if the quality would suffer from something that could be fixed easily. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
