16 Oct
2003
16 Oct
'03
7:34 a.m.
Mark I fully agree with what you said, and probably the MIS piano is not
that great compared to those
16 layers samples. But some probably would like to have decent quality
samples available for free.
And AFAIK there aren't that many around.
Perhaps a music research lab at an university or some private piano
owner/recording studio that owns the
required recording equipement could try to make such an 8-16 layer GIG
file and make it available for
free in order to support the musicians that want to make music with free
software/sample libraries/sounds.
Of course other instruments are welcome too ;-)
Yes I fully agree it takes lots of work to make a high quality sample
library but on the other hand
writing a complex audio application takes lots of man-months (of
talented software engineers which are
much more rare than musicians/sound designers) so if we follow your
reasoning one might ask about
why wasting all this time to create for example LinuxSampler when there
are dozen of sw-samplers
available on the market. Some powerful cost up to $800-$1000 while
others run as low as $50-$80
(the german Speedsoft V-Sampler for Windows).
I think the same ideals that induce people to write free audio software
for Linux should induce sound designers
that share our beliefs to produce samples and sounds that can be used
for free.
I think everyone should have the right of making music , and we all know
instruments (both traditional and electronic ones)
have always been expensive but thanks to PC technology and free
software (and hopefully some free samples/sounds)
we can significantly lower the barrier of entry for the not so wealthy.
Sound designers that make available some of their samples for free will
contribute to that cause.
I think like there exists the "Digital Divide" (the poor not having
access to computers/internet),
there exist a "Music Divide" too. (the creative person that would like
to make music but cannot afford to buy the required tools). Let's
contribute to remove that barrier too.
Benno
http://www.linuxsampler.org
Mark Knecht wrote:
exactly, if you
(or others) are experienced with GigaStudio you could
try to assemble a .GIG instrument.
Sure, but as I pointed out in the next email, I think there's not a good
reason to go through that effort just yet:
1) There are free piano libraries out there, or you can buy one starting at
probably $39 or so. East-West comes to mind.
2) Today's best GSt pianos are doing 16 (or more) layers pedal up, 16 (or
more) layers pedal down AND release samples. It does make a big difference
to have both pedal down and release samples.
If you hardware cannot handle that library, then these high end libraries
all ship stripped down versions that use just pieces, like only pedal up and
no release, to ease the burden on hardware. Even the high-end ones only run
about $200, so at 33 samples * 88 notes or about 2500 wave files, someone
has to really WANT to do this because it's only costing about 10 cents per
wave file and they have a better piano so sample.
This still comes back, in my mind as a GSt user for about 3 years, to having
some sounds that are worthwhile. Taking an existing synth, or piano, and
doing some processing to make something new will be more useful than just
another GSt piano library.
BTW - do you know about the Piano Shootout page?
http://www.purgatorycreek.com/pianocompare.html
There must be close to 100 piano libraries right now just on this site...
- Mark