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

[Mark Knecht]

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> From: linux-audio-user-admin at music.columbia.edu
> [mailto:linux-audio-user-admin at music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Tobiah
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:06 AM
> To: linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Is there interrest in a (near) perfect
> piano for tiMIDIty for composing music ?
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> > tiMIDIty version. So I'd like to know if there interrest in the Linux
> > community for such a product ?
> >
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> Yeah, but what is a tiMIDIty version, explicitly?  If you want to
> please the Linux community, just send us 88 (more?) samples, one for
> each key, and chuck the looping.  Just let them all ring out till
> silence.  Better yet, 4-5 samples for each key at different striking
> pressures would be great.  Don't worry about how or what software will
> sort this all out, we'll figure out something.
>

Actually, let's be complete about this! ;-)

My current favorite GSt piano (Bardstown Audio Bosendorfer Imperial Grand)
uses:

4 samples at different velocities, sustain pedal down, for each key
4 samples at different velocities, sustain pedal up, for each key
1 release sample for each key

This piano has an extra 8-10 keys on the bottom end, so I think the key
space is about 96 keys instead of 88.

The samples are unlooped and some go as many as 40 seconds, I believe.

This library is pretty large, approaching 2GB, but it sure does sound good.
Not perfect, but very, very good.

Bardstown has also delivered native 24-bit for Halion and EXS.

Some library guys are now doing 8 and 16 velocity layers. I've tried one,
but I didn't like it as much as the Bardstown. Cost - $199 U.S.