[linux-audio-user] Anyone interested in helping with melotron

[John Check]

On Saturday 12 March 2005 05:29 pm, Emiliano Grilli wrote:
> venerd?, 11 marzo 2005 alle 13:18:29, John Check ha scritto:
> > On Wednesday 09 March 2005 05:24 pm, Julien Claassen wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >   At http://freepats.opensrc.org there is a mellotron sample in the
> > > flac format. I'm very interested in this sound. I'd like to see it in a
> > > soundfont, so it can be used with fluidsynth. Unfortunately I only can
> > > convert this sample to the .wav or .raw format and split the different
> > > samples from one another. The actual soundfont creation (with swami) I
> > > can't do. Would anyone be interested in this kind of project?  As said
> > > I'd convert and split the flac file and do, what else I can, but
> > > for the final swami-touch, I'd need some help, because I'm blind.
> > > I'm looking forward to hear from someone!
> > >   Kindest regards Julien
> >
> > Here is a link to a draft SoundFont. No loop points were set,
> > but looping is engaged. Approximately 12.3Mb.
> >
> > http://65.125.227.61/mellotronia.SF2
> >
> >
> > I'll submit it to freepats when it's done.
>
> Hi !
>
> Thanks for that.
>
> As for looping, in the meanwhile a friendly guy from the italian
> newsgroup it.comp.musica has done a looped version of the reed:
>
> www.viandanze.com/materiale/mello.sf2 (~3.7 Mb)
>
> He said that the problem (Ryan point that out some time ago) is that
> those samples are too short, and that he had no luck either with normal

Yes. The sample taker didn't consider the idiosyncracies of the instrument 
either, but that's par for the course with sample patches not from a 
professional source.

> lopping or with ping pong. He used crossfade looping. the result isn't
> that bad.
>

I haven't seen any indication of crossfade looping capability in smurf. By 
"ping pong" do you mean play forward and then reverse? That has obvious
artifacts.

> In order to avoid duplication of the effort, I suggest to join our
> forces. I don't know if he can write in english, but I can eventually
> act as a (not-so-good) translation gateway ;-) I put him in Cc.
>
> Cheers,

That's the sensible thing to do. I'd be interested in knowing what his plan to 
proceed is.