22 Jan
2003
22 Jan
'03
5:08 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: linux-audio-user-admin(a)music.columbia.edu
[mailto:linux-audio-user-admin@music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Tobiah
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:06 AM
To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Is there interrest in a (near) perfect
piano for tiMIDIty for composing music ?
Actually, let's be complete about this! ;-)
My current favorite GSt piano (Bardstown Audio Bosendorfer Imperial Grand)
uses:
4 samples at different velocities, sustain pedal down, for each key
4 samples at different velocities, sustain pedal up, for each key
1 release sample for each key
This piano has an extra 8-10 keys on the bottom end, so I think the key
space is about 96 keys instead of 88.
The samples are unlooped and some go as many as 40 seconds, I believe.
This library is pretty large, approaching 2GB, but it sure does sound good.
Not perfect, but very, very good.
Bardstown has also delivered native 24-bit for Halion and EXS.
Some library guys are now doing 8 and 16 velocity layers. I've tried one,
but I didn't like it as much as the Bardstown. Cost - $199 U.S.
tiMIDIty version. So I'd like to know if
there interrest in the Linux
community for such a product ?
Yeah, but what is a tiMIDIty version, explicitly? If you want to
please the Linux community, just send us 88 (more?) samples, one for
each key, and chuck the looping. Just let them all ring out till
silence. Better yet, 4-5 samples for each key at different striking
pressures would be great. Don't worry about how or what software will
sort this all out, we'll figure out something.