[linux-audio-user] Make a .GIG out of the MIS piano Was: Re: Copyrights on samples

Atte André Jensen atte at ballbreaker.dk
Tue Oct 14 12:52:01 EDT 2003


On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:22:07 +0200
Benno Senoner <sbenno at gardena.net> wrote:

> So the advice to Atti and others is:

Hmmm, that should have been Atte, but ok :-)

> One of you should use a Windows app which allows you to create .GIG 
> files (with GigaStudio being the natural choice), download the MIS 
> samples, tune volume, velocity-splits, trim samples (some samples have
> a bit of silence at the beginning etc) and make a .GIG file out of it.

I do not have access to a windows partition, so... I would rather give
it the best shot at creating a (few) sf3(s) of the samples. This could
also prove useful to some people (for instance me, that always run
everything from csound anyways)...

> After the piano sounds good in GigaStudio you should post it online.
> That way as soon as LinuxSampler is ready (the piano sample does not 
> require filters, envelopes etc) we can release a truly free
> Grandpiano in software (samples + player).

I didn't know that the project was that mature, looking forward to
checking it out.

> To compare how well the MIS piano .GIG you will create ,sounds I
> suggest you to use this page:
> 
> http://www.af.lu.se/~fogwall/piano.html
> 
> On that page you find a classical music midi file
> Fantaisie-Impromptu (Chopin)
> 
> and the corresponding audio clips rendered with various
> digital pianos, hardware expanders and software samples
> (including VST The Grand, various multi-Gigabyte piano samples for
> Gigasampler etc).

Great idea. I'll give that a go with my sf2-version.

> Not sure about the quality we can achieve, for example the MIS piano
> does not include pedal down samples.
> IANAPP (I am not a piano player)  so I do not know if this is a big
> disadvantage that makes it sound unprofessional.

I personally don't think it's *that* important. Let's see...

-- 
peace, love & harmony
Atte



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