On 02/14/2011 03:47 PM, Q wrote: > Hello everyone > > It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of the Taijiguy > GigaTron, a Mellotron sample set in Giga format. > > The set is very kindly being hosted by the Linuxsampler team and can be > found here: > > http://www.linuxsampler.org/instruments.html > > The samples were made by Bernie Kornowicz (aka taijiguy on the KVR Audio > forums). The samples were recorded over a number of years and are freely > available from taijiguy's site[1]. > > Some of these samples were packaged in SFZ format with his permission a > couple of years ago[2]. Other KVR members have packaged the samples in > Kontakt and other formats[3]. > > With Bernie's kind permission, I packaged the samples into Giga format > using Linuxsampler's Gigedit. As the samples are his copyright and I > have merely packaged them, the Giga file cannot be released under any > sort of free licence, but is (and must remain) free of charge. > > Each note of each sound is individually sampled, with no looping, in > order to preserve the essence of the Tron. A low-pass filter is mapped > to the modwheel to emulate the Mellotron's tone control. The Giga file > is keyswitched to allow fast selection of the different sounds: > > "M400 Violins" -- EQ'd Mk II Violins > "M400 Violins Yes EQ" -- EQ'd Mk II Violins > "M400 Violins Smooth Ryder EQ" -- EQ'd Mk II Violins > Cello > String Section > Mk II Violins > M300A (violins) > M300B (solo violin) > Mk II Brass > GC3 Brass > Mk II Flute > Woodwind2 > Combined Choir > > My thanks go to taijiguy for his wonderful samples, for sharing them and > for his kind permission to package them; to the Linuxsampler team for > the wonderful software, for fixing a libgig bug that was hindering > me, not to mention also for generously hosting the Giga file; to Ryder > Duncan for his perseverance in trying to replicate the fantastic sound > of the M400 Three Violins[4]; to the developers and maintainers of a > number of Linux audio apps which I've made use of in the production of > this sample set. > > Finally, for assistance with road testing, thanks go to my tame keyboard > player, Julien. There's technical demo of the sounds is on the LS > website, but Julien has done a very nice, musical demo using many (but > not all) of the sounds, which can be found here: > http://juliencoder.de/nama/dream_of_the_old_land.ogg > http://juliencoder.de/nama/dream_of_the_old_land.mp3 > > Enjoy. > > Q > > [1] www.leisureland.us/audio/MellotronSamples/MellotronSamples.htm > [2] http://realmusicmedia.net/Mellotron.html > [3] www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=304393 > [4] http://ryderduncan.com/themusicalbox/?p=33 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: > Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. > Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. > Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb > _______________________________________________ > Linuxsampler-devel mailing list > Linuxsampler-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel > Thank you very much! I was about to make .sfz mappings for these but I wont need to do that now :)
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