[LAU] List of FOSS Sampled Instrument Libraries for musicians - Hand selected and curated

[Louigi Verona]

Hey Nils,

Thank you for this list. Amazing work and the attention to detail is
incredible!



Louigi Verona
https://louigiverona.com/


On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 1:35 AM Laborejo Software Suite <info at laborejo.org>
wrote:

> Hi Paul.
>
> thanks for the answer.  The following is not meant as "told you so!". But
> I also want to show, that I care about this subject and made my homework.
>
> > sorry, that reply may have sounded a bit grumpy. it's just a bit
> irritating
> > sometimes to see well-intentioned efforts that seem to miss so many of
> the
> > resources they need to cover in order to give people a full picture.
>
> And sometimes a well meaning reply is also wrong:
>
> That Aeolus and setBfree are sample-less software synthesizers was not
> only hinted at through
> " Guest appearances by Aeolus and setBFree :) "
> but it also mentioned three times on the website itself. Once under "All
> software synthesizers" and then in each individual description.
>
> The samples from pianobook.co.uk all do not fulfill my requirements. See
> also their terms and conditions:
> https://www.pianobook.co.uk/terms-conditions/
> Quote: " You may not sell sample(s), or give away any sample(s) for use by
> any other person(s)."
>
> And to anticipate one possible reply: My list is not a matter of what is
> fair and moral and possibly enough to make music. It has a 100% clear, law
> to the letter, no exceptions approach. I also wrote:
>
> "The strict constraints mean that this list will never be very large.
> Creating sampled instruments is a time-consuming and expensive task and is
> usually undertaken with the intention of making money from the result, thus
> not distributing the instrument as free and open source. This is by no
> means condemnable, but in this case it is simply not our topic. "
>
>
> And finally, from your .sf2 image I can tell at a first glance several
> well-known illegal rips, instances where the authors falsely claimed
> "public domain" and cases where the license simply do not meet my
> requirements, the requirements I prominently put in their own chapter.
>
> For example Florestan is well know copyright infringement, SC55 is already
> clear that these are just Roland samples, G-Town is not as free as people
> like to think, they are probably worth an entry on my "Other list" (that is
> linked on the page).
> Some of the .sf2 are synthesizer sounds, which I clearly declared "out of
> scope", even if they were CC0 sf2.
>
> And maybe they are just bad sounds. As I wrote: "They either have to be of
> decent quality, or at least be the only ones of their kind."
> For example balafon1.sf2, which I even created an .sfz version from in
> 2012. However, I would not recommend that to anyone because I dislike the
> sound.
>
> So, it is possible that a few of these .sf2 are indeed good fits for my
> list. And in this case I welcome any suggestion, as written on the page.
> However, I require a source that I can review.
>
>
> With the risk to sound grumpy as well:
> This time my efforts were already ahead. The "full picture" is sadly not
> as full as it should be. Not many people have the time, money and skills to
> produce samples, and that shows. People are desperate and want every
> sample-lib to be free and good. But most of the time they aren't, but yet
> another EMU Proteus rip, or something like this.
>
> I hope this example of the research-and-elimination process shows why I
> think I am the right person to create that list.
>
> Yours,
> Nils
>
>
> On Thu, 27 May 2021 16:48:25 -0600
> Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
>
> > sorry, that reply may have sounded a bit grumpy. it's just a bit
> irritating
> > sometimes to see well-intentioned efforts that seem to miss so many of
> the
> > resources they need to cover in order to give people a full picture.
> >
> > here's what i mean.
> >
> > first, a shot of the pianobook libs i have on my machine - more or less
> all
> > those available in DS format. Just two days, we got a beautiful full
> > orchestra lib there (NFO...)
> >
> > [image: image.png]
> >
> > next, here's a listing of all the SF2 libs i was able to find that were
> > gratis+libre during a big search a couple of years ago. I don't like most
> > of these - SF2 is an inadequate format for msot instruments, though it
> > works well for percussive sounds:
> >
> > [image: image.png]
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 4:03 PM Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 3:44 PM Laborejo Software Suite <
> info at laborejo.org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hello LAUs,
> > >>
> > >> Here is a list I am working on at the moment that I wanted to share
> with
> > >> you.
> > >> I feel like I've written this already in 2012, but some stuff is worth
> > >> repeating :)
> > >>
> > >> https://hilbricht.net/foss-sampled-instruments.html
> > >
> > >
> > > Aeolus and SetBFree are not sampled instruments. They are synthesizers
> > > that generate sound from scratch.
> > >
> > > You;ve also skipped all of the libraries on pianobook.co.uk that are
> in
> > > DecentSampler format, and can thus be played in either DecentSampler
> > > (gratis, non-libre) or sfizz (gratis & libre)
> > >
> > >
> > >
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