[Freepats] Re: New Hydrogen Drumkit and free sound samples

[Marcos Guglielmetti Gmail]

El Dom 09 Abr 2006 12:17, Roberto Gordo Saez escribió:
> On 4/8/06, Marcos Guglielmetti Gmail <marcospcmusica at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Download from:
> > ftp://ftp.musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/sound-samples/Colombo-Acus
> >tic-Drumkit/
> >
> > Last time notes: this multilayered Hydrogen's Drumkit only uses
> > some of these .flac samples, I will move the unused samples to
> > another path later...
>
> Great work Marcos. Thank you!

Well, I'm glad: i like to play my acustic drum with my keyboard and with 
Rosegarden or hydrogen: now I can do it, but I will improve it and make 
different type of sounds with it during this year, I think... for now 
my goal was just to have something out there, and that this Drumkit 
sounds acustic, as someone was playing it in almost and ordinary room

But the next step with the colombo drumkit samples is to make them sound 
like a more expensive drum.

> Although free software is now used in many different areas,
> sound/music production is one of this areas that is getting less
> attention. It is rare to find people using free software in a
> professional way for this tasks, and the lack of quality samples is
> the most prominent cause.


I dont know if I agree: some months ago, the lack was especially in 
bogus audio & MIDI sequencers: now Ardour is really professional and 
Rosegarden it's professional too (lesser)

>
> Many samples are still missing from freepats 

Do you people got the freepats drum samples from Musix GNU+Linux? We 
completed all the drum patches, Adrian Pardini did it, he told me some 
days ago that he found them into an ancient Mandrake CD!

> and many others need to 
> be improved. 

?

> Mark, since you have a better knowledge on what is 
> missing to produce a minimal (but usable) set of high quality
> instrument samples, can you please make a list of priority samples
> that are needed? 

Yes please!

> Also, a list of samples already included in freepats 
> that you think can be reused and are acceptable quality would be a
> good idea.

To convert them to .sf2?

> This way, focus can be given on most needed ones, in 
> orther to have something usable as soon as possible.

I agree: I think that it would be comfortable for anyone to have a full 
GM melodic bank into .sf2 format or .pat, but: there is no apps to make 
those .pat files!!!

And maybe they are worse than .sf2, maybe they dont support layers...

-- 
Marcos Guglielmetti  
Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux 
(www.musix.org.ar) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix)
(ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/)