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

[Benno Senoner]

Mark I fully agree with what you said, and probably the MIS piano is not 
that great compared to those
16 layers samples. But some probably would like to have decent quality 
samples available for free.
And AFAIK there aren't that many around.
Perhaps a music research lab at an university or some private piano 
owner/recording studio that owns the
 required recording equipement could try to make such an 8-16 layer GIG 
file and make it available for
free in order to support the musicians that want to make music with free 
software/sample libraries/sounds.
Of course other instruments are welcome too ;-)
Yes I fully agree it takes lots of work to make a high quality sample 
library but on the other hand
writing a complex audio application takes lots of man-months (of 
talented software engineers which are
 much more rare than musicians/sound designers) so if we follow your 
reasoning one might ask about
why wasting all this time to create for example LinuxSampler when there 
are dozen of sw-samplers
 available on the market. Some powerful cost up to $800-$1000 while 
others run as low as $50-$80
(the german Speedsoft V-Sampler for Windows).
I think the same ideals that induce people to write free audio software 
for Linux should induce sound designers
 that share our beliefs to produce samples and sounds that can be used 
for free.
I think everyone should have the right of making music , and we all know 
instruments (both traditional and electronic ones)
 have always been expensive but thanks to PC technology and free 
software (and hopefully some free samples/sounds)
 we can significantly lower the barrier of entry for the not so wealthy.
Sound designers that make available some of their samples for free will 
contribute to that cause.

I think like there exists the "Digital Divide" (the poor not having 
access to computers/internet),
there exist a "Music Divide" too. (the creative person that would like
to make music but cannot afford to buy the required tools). Let's 
contribute to remove that barrier too.

Benno
http://www.linuxsampler.org


Mark Knecht wrote:

>>exactly, if you (or others) are experienced with GigaStudio you could
>>try to assemble a .GIG instrument.
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>Sure, but as I pointed out in the next email, I think there's not a good
>reason to go through that effort just yet:
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>1) There are free piano libraries out there, or you can buy one starting at
>probably $39 or so. East-West comes to mind.
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>2) Today's best GSt pianos are doing 16 (or more) layers pedal up, 16 (or
>more) layers pedal down AND release samples. It does make a big difference
>to have both pedal down and release samples.
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>If you hardware cannot handle that library, then these high end libraries
>all ship stripped down versions that use just pieces, like only pedal up and
>no release, to ease the burden on hardware. Even the high-end ones only run
>about $200, so at 33 samples * 88 notes or about 2500 wave files, someone
>has to really WANT to do this because it's only costing about 10 cents per
>wave file and they have a better piano so sample.
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>This still comes back, in my mind as a GSt user for about 3 years, to having
>some sounds that are worthwhile. Taking an existing synth, or piano, and
>doing some processing to make something new will be more useful than just
>another GSt piano library.
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>BTW - do you know about the Piano Shootout page?
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>http://www.purgatorycreek.com/pianocompare.html
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>There must be close to 100 piano libraries right now just on this site...
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