[Freepats] freepats for low resource computers

[Marcos Guglielmetti]

Just to say hello, how are you :D and to report that free culture is 
expanding somewhat

In Brazil, 52 millon of students will be educated using GNU/Linux (a 
custom debian) and KDE.

Venezuela and Ecuador are following these steps; also, switzerland, 
spain and rusia are adopting Free Software... so..... as free culture 
spreads, we could spect some more people to be interested in free 
pats.


By the way, this new site

http://redpanal.com/

will be launched in 3 days, and its goal is

* collaborative music creation

So, that includes free samples!

under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar/

Regards,


El Viernes, 9 de Mayo de 2008 04:43, Mark Constable escribió:
 | On 2008-05-09 08:25, ml at distasis.com wrote:
 | > I've been using some of the freepats soundfonts on my Windows
 | > machine with Timidity and am really impressed with the output of
 | > some of the high quality sf2 files.  However, I've recently been
 | > experimenting with one of my old laptops and running DeLi Linux.
 | >  It struck me that there's a need for a low resource, small but
 | > still somewhat decent sounding series of soundfonts to run on
 | > very old computer systems.  The Windows Timidity++ at Tim
 | > Brechbill's site comes with a small set of sound fonts (about
 | > 6MB) to get people started.  I'm not sure of the licensing on it
 | > though.  Was just thinking, it would be really nice to have a
 | > totally free and open source licensed version of a small midi
 | > soundfont set to run with programs like Timidity++ on low end
 | > computer systems.  Am wondering if anyone's run across anything
 | > like that with Open Source licensing or if something could be
 | > put together for small systems under an Open license and offered
 | > through the Freepats web site.
 |
 | I guess you mean a fairly complete 128 voice GM sf2 soundfont set?
 |
 | I totally agree and that is actually the main point of the
 | freepats site, to encourage that as one goal, if possible.
 |
 | > Just thought I'd mention it to others on the list.  I definitely
 | > think there's a need for a free but compact set of midi sounds. 
 | > It would also make the resources of the freepats group available
 | > to even more computer systems.  Anyone have any further ideas on
 | > this?
 |
 | The ideal would be as large a range of 24bit/96htz samples of all
 | types of instruments that could then be rendered into a number of
 | instrument sets at various quality levels. It would be even better
 | if some or most of the instruments could be dynamically generated
 | on the end users system, to save huge downloads, and also be
 | dynamically converted into whatever soundset in whatever format
 | at whatever quality, also on the end users computer... but that
 | is expecting way too much for now.
 |
 | The minimum goal is a "reasonable quality" but mostly complete
 | GM set of samples that could provide a usable soundfont set...
 | and then be able to re-render the components into a light 16bit
 | 32htz set for mobile or PDA devices with a license acceptable to
 | hardware makers (BSD-ish license perhaps).
 |
 | There is actually a business case here, to offer a set of GPL3
 | samples for free use but then also offer a commercial closed
 | source license for hardware manufacturers with custom sounds
 | available just for that manufacturer etc. I'm all for open and
 | free sounds but it's such a hard thing to pull together that
 | perhaps commercial incentive (ie; people getting paid to do the
 | work) would ironically generate more free sounds than being a
 | completely free range operation like the freepats project.
 |
 | I wish I had a spare lifetime to look into this angle.
 |
 | --markc
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Marcos Guglielmetti - www.musix.org.ar

Decile NO! a la privatización de la educación en Argentina

0. "Plan de alfabetización digital en base a Software Libre"

1.  Informate:
http://www.mastermagazine.info/articulo/12831.php
http://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php/Comunicado_de_prensa
http://wiki.gleducar.org.ar/wiki/Razones_para_usar_software_libre_en_educaci%C3%B3n

2. Te interesa?
Unite! http://groups.google.com/group/alfabetizaciondigital/

3. Conocés alguien a quien pueda interesarle?
Debemos llegar a los gremios docentes, no-docentes y centros de 
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