[LAU] Soon to be released Grand Piano sample library

[Philipp]

Excerpts from alexander's message of 2010-04-01 00:43:20 +0200:
> On 04/01/2010 12:50 AM, Arnold Krille wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:42:58 alexander wrote:
> >    
> >> I'm currently making a rather big grand piano sample library. It is a
> >> Yamaha C5 recorded with 2 AKG C414 in an AB position about 10cm above
> >> the strings at 24bit48khz. It is downsampled to 16bit44.1khz because
> >> gigedit couldn't save files larger than 2gb. It's sampled in minor
> >> thirds with 17 velocity layers (some only 16 due to a nasty head ache
> >> when I recorded)
> >>      
> > I haven't actually listened to the demo yet, but:
> >
> >   - Can we convince you of going 48kHz/24bits? That is far more common in audio
> > production. Using 44.1kHz in a setup running at 48kHz includes possibly nasty
> > artefacts from up-sampling and a loss of precision and frequencies. Down-
> > sampling is far easier on the quality...
> >     Maybe its better to make do with one or two layers less. And maybe help to
> > fix gigedit. linuxsampler is said to be able to do more then 2GB files.
> >
> >   - When looking for compression for easier distribution: What about
> > distributing a "source" archive that contains the wavpack/flac compressed raw
> > samples, the gigedit file and a makefile for creation of the .gig-file?
> >
> > Have fun,
> >
> > Arnold
> >    
> Hmm, how's that for a version 2.0? :) I haven't noticed any up-sampling 
> problems yet. But I do agree, 24bit48khz would be much more fun. I would 
> have to cut 3 layers at least, we're talking about shaving 0.6gb's here :)
> 
> I think I'll just shove it down a bz2 archive..

Did you have contact with the gigedit authors? Maybe the fix is minor.
It would be a pity if the quality would suffer from something that could
be fixed easily.