On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 02:09 pm, Pete Bessman wrote:
  ...
 2) Walk through your massive library of samples and try different
 sounds.
 ...
 [Chris]
 > > Of course, there are tons and tons of samples available; but then,
 > > in order to express the music you're hearing in your head, you're
 > > gonna be spending hours and hours trying to find samples that
 > > work. 
Where might all these samples be ?
A few of us are trying to put together a free and open General
MIDI compatible set of GUS pats, initially, in a way that the
raw samples can be built up into SoundFonts or even small light
weight gigasamples, or instrument patches of any kind.
Please excuse the blatant plug but I believe this is a good
cause and we _need_ (at first) free and open source samples
to suit GM/GS/XG instruments at 
http://freepats.opensrc.org
--markc