[LAU] Soon to be released Grand Piano sample library

[James Stone]

alexander wrote:
> Hey Hey Hey!
> 
> 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'd like to have some feedback and have two questions answered. I've 
> posted the same question on the linuxsampler forum but that doesn't seem 
> to be the most active place in the world so I'll make a post here too.
> 
> The question: Can I make release samples to be played even if the 
> sustain pedal is pressed?
> 
> The other question: How should I distribute it? I was thinking something 
> like a torrent would be the most effective. I only got 512kbps up and 
> It's about 1.5gb worth of .gig file
> 
> The Demo: http://j.imagehost.org/download/0912/GrandPianoUpdatedDemo 
> Played by Alfonso Gugliucci, User PianistItaliano on youtube.
> 

Sounds really nice!

By the way, why do you want to have release samples with the sustain 
pedal pressed? Surely that's not very "realistic"?

James