Re: [linux-audio-user] Is there interrest in a (near) perfect piano for tiMIDIty for composing music ?

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. A good idea would be to double all of these samples, one recorded with the sustain pedal open, and one closed. This would allow the creation of the interactive effect between the strings which is so noticeably lost in most sample sets. This makes the set too large you say? Not even. I wouldn't sweat if it was a couple of GIG even. Hey, it's only one DVD. Lets start putting today's machines' capabilities to good use. In fact, these samples should be AIFF, WAV, or raw, 96k/24bit, mastered digitally with mics and equipment that can register frequencies approaching the nyquist. That way, when we lower notes an octave or two for effect, we will still have high end sizzle. Yeah, make that, and I would buy it. $20.00 - $30.00 say. As long as there were no restrictions through licensing, other than, of course, on the resale of the package as a sample set.