[Musix-usuarios] Re: [Freepats] Free Yamaha grand piano soundfont

[Marcos Guglielmetti]

WHAT THE HELL!!!??

incredible good news man!!! :)

i am at debconf 8 at mar del plata, argentina, and John Maddog Hall
did a talk about Player Pianos and Linux, very interesting i filmed
almot all the talk, so I will upload it in a few weeks... also he
talked about a church organ that costs 5.000.000 dolars on New York,
made by sound samples, using 10 gnulinux PCs!!. it-s the best organ in
the world, but it is not free

so, well, we can do it at last: with the expansion of free culture,
more and more samples and complete soundfonts will come here.\\

congrats roberto, the yamaha has a great sound and i want to try it no
bien llegue a mi casa en La Plata :)

2008/8/11 Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo en gmail.com>:
> Another free soundfont for the free sotfware community, this time
> resembling a Yamaha Disklavier Pro piano. Creative Commons
> Attribution 3.0 license. Enjoy!
>
> 52 samples at 44100Hz, 16bit. Size 45.5MiB.
>
> Example music rendered through the soundfont:
>
>  - Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 13, "Pathétique", 1st movement
>   (Ludwig van Beethoven)
http://zenvoid.org/audio/beethoven_sonata_op13_pathetique_m1_20080808.ogg
>
>  - Für Elise (Ludwig van Beethoven):
  http://zenvoid.org/audio/beethoven_fur_elise_20080808.ogg
>
> I've added a reverb to those music files in order to please to
> my friend Aaron ;-)
>
> The soundfont is here:
 http://zenvoid.org/i/audio.html
>
> There will be more releases, I will try to improve quality. I'm
> working in loops (currently there are no loops) and more layers.
>
> It is built from the Zenph Studios Yamaha Disklavier Pro Piano
> Multisamples for OLPC. The OLPC project recently released a
> collection of samples under CC-BY license; in particular, this
> multisampled piano is very good.
>
> According to Dr. Richard Boulanger, there will be a complete
> General MIDI soundfont released soon under CC-BY license! It
> will be probably a small soundfont, optimized for the OLPC
> project, and good for embeded or normal desktop usage (I think).
> I hope it could be used as the default General MIDI soundfont in
> most GNU/Linux distributions. Very good news. Of course, high
> quality samples will still be wanted for specialized
> distributions and professional audio composition.
>
> A few notes about the reverb:
>
> I've added a very nice convolution reverb to the example music
> with Jconv, using impulse responses from the Promenadikeskus
> concert hall in Pori, Finland. While doing it, I've noticed the
> lack of free impulse responses :-(  It has been discussed
> before in the LAU list; some publicly available IR files are
> restricted to non-commercial usage or come with very weird
> conditions. I couldn't found unrestricted, free IR files. AFAIK
> some of them (either made by individuals or organizations) are
> not being commercially exploited in any way, so maybe some
> authors will be willing to relicense under free licenses when
> contacted... sadly, it seems a common fact of our modern culture
> to forbid everything by default, without a good reason.
>
> If anyone knows about original and free impulse responses
> (really free, as freedom, and with a known free license or clear
> license terms attached) please let me know.
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