[linux-audio-user] Is there interrest in a (near) perfect piano for tiMIDIty for composing music ?

[Paul Winkler]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:19:33PM +0100, Roel de Wit wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently we are working on a cross-platform and multi format commercial
> GM/GS soundset named Project Portability (code-name).. We're also going to
> release an extremly realistic grand piano soundfont for Audigy (2)
> soundcards.. Currently we are determining whether or not to make a special
> tiMIDIty version. So I'd like to know if there interrest in the Linux
> community for such a product ?
>
> 
> Details of the soon to be ready v0.2 beta version (Audigy (2) only under
> Windows at the moment):
> - Between 180 and 220 MB of 48 Khz 16 bit stereo samples sampled from a real
> piano. These are samples of 5 velocity layers of the piano.
> - 127 velocity layers.
> - Perfectly natural piano behaviour and sound.
> 
> Some MP3 recordings of the v0.1 release can be found at
> http://project-portability.foad.nl .. These are dry (no reverb) recordings
> without any post-processing applied to them.. Any comments would be
> appreciated.

They're pretty nice recordings.
What do you anticipate the price to be?

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