[Freepats] Completely free instrument samples for freepats

[Roberto Gordo Saez]

>From now, I will continue with the conversations using the mailing
list, since we are all talking about same things and it is much more
transparent in this way, IMHO.

This is the current state of all previous conversations:

Marcos Guglielmetti kindly offered his help in sampling some real
drums. He sent me two samples, and I am very happy because they sound
great! And when I listen to free (GPL) samples they sound even better
to my ears :-)

He also appears to have great experience making soundfonts, so he can
arrange the sf2 files as well. For now, I think priority is to get a
library of free samples to have some good material to start with; the
creation of soundfonts can always be made at a latter time.

Marcos says he can make other original sounds from real instruments
and analog synthesizers. For my part, I don't have equipment to record
anything, but I will continue searching for more original samples.

The musical instruments at the University of Iowa seems a good
starting point. They have recordings of different kinds of flute,
clarinet, violin... and a Steinway & Sons piano sampled at every note.
The piano is more than 1 GB in samples, a pretty nice soundfont could
be made from this (although my computer will be unable to handle it,
for sure).

I will email Lawrence Fritts (University of Iowa) for license
clarification, to be sure the instruments can be used with GPL. From
the note given on their homepage:

"Please feel free to use these samples in your research or music
projects without restriction."

I can't find any formal license nor copyright notices. In case samples
are public domain (not copyrighted), they can be repackaged as GPL
without problems, but the given text seems to exclude commercial
usage, which makes me think they are not PD...

Mark told me that very little progress has been made during the years.
I hope things will start to change from now.

Mark, please... tell me that you will get rid of all uncertain (or
"gray area") samples that are currently in freepats... please... :-)