<div>I think the old Emu Emulator III sample bank CDROMs are excellent. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">A lot of work went into those sample-banks. Until I recently re-fired up my EIIIxp, I forgot just how nice they were (and how nice real hardware sounds and plays). The 2Mb samples of strings, pianos, instruments, percussion are very musical, responsive, w/ a lot of thought to modulation control for expressiveness. Ones I have:</span></div>
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#10. Elements of Sound 1mb collection</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
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#12. ESI-32 150MB Production Soundset</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
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#16. Twenty Six Studio Drum Kits and Percussion ESI-32</blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Many of these are now available for cheap: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: arial; "><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=+EIII+cdrom">http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=+EIII+cdrom</a></span></span></font></div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">The "NorthStar" collection </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><a href="http://www.northstarsamples.com/ProductIndex.html">http://www.northstarsamples.com/ProductIndex.html</a> is awesome if you can afford it....</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">I wish there was a way of loading these pre-existing sample banks into a linux softsampler or translating into soundfonts. Of course, you'd invariably lose a lot of the useful programming (filters, envelopes, multisamples) that went into engineering these "pro" samples, in conversion.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div>Are there any linux softsamplers that can access the massive library of pre-existing samples. Or Linux sample translators equivalent to "Translator Emulator X Convertor, by Chicken Systems" which will convert "Akai S-1000/3000, Akai MPC, Emu EIII/ESi/Emax, Tascam GigaStudio 1 + 2, SoundFont, Native Instruments Kontakt 1 + 2, Steinberg HALion I and I". <div>
<br></div><div>Or best of all, an open-source version of the "Emulator X3" <a href="http://www.emu.com/products/product.asp?category=501&subcategory=168&product=17681">http://www.emu.com/products/product.asp?category=501&subcategory=168&product=17681</a> :-)</div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><div><br></div>Niels<br><a href="http://nielsmayer.com">http://nielsmayer.com</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div>PS: or you can just sample frozen lakebeds, solar winds, and spaceweather: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><a href="http://silentlistening.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/dispersion-of-sound-waves-in-ice-sheets/" class="ot-anchor">http://silentlistening.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/dispersion-of-sound-waves-in-ice-sheets/</a> <a href="http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/stereo_solarwind/sounds_examples.html" class="ot-anchor">http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/stereo_solarwind/sounds_examples.html</a> , and <a href="http://spaceweatherradio.com/" class="ot-anchor">http://spaceweatherradio.com/</a> </span></div>