Stereo Rhodes Elec piano

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Stereo Rhodes Elec piano

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This one was a lot of work, but it turned out quite nice.
http://www.bandshed.net/sounds/sfz/stereo_rhodes.zip
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Re: Stereo Rhodes Elec piano

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Works fine with linuxsampler and sounds good - although not like a real Rhodes. More like a synthesized and soft clone.

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bluebell wrote:sounds good - although not like a real Rhodes. More like a synthesized and soft clone.
Um, those are samples from a genuine Mark V Fender rhodes. Having played one for several years, I can attest that the instrument really does have a rather mellow "bell-like" quality to it, which is why jazz musicians favored it over the more harshly percussive Wurlitzer and RMI (both of which I've also played. I favored the Wurly. The rhodes was too mellow for me, and rmi was more like a guitar than piano sound).

Younger musicians are much more familiar with the "DX-7 Rhodes" emulation, which is a lot more percussive than the real thing. But this sfz is what the real instrument sounds like.

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Ok, then my Mark II that I owned about 3 decades ago had probably a more percussive sound than the Mark V.

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Re: Stereo Rhodes Elec piano

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Can you please check the G#4? I get no sound when playing that note with velocity round about 50 to 60.
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noedig wrote:check the G#4
Good catch. Fixed.
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Re: Stereo Rhodes Elec piano

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This is ace.
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This is very beautiful. Under which license do you publish this soundfont and/or the other you share in http://www.bandshed.net/sounds/sfz/ ?
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Very beautiful. Under which license do you share this soundfont or the other soundfonts you put in http://www.bandshed.net/sounds/sfz/ ?
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Hi j_e_f_f_g
These small sfz soundsets are fantastic. I would love to make rhodes.zip and gmkit.zip available in a plugin with a download window giving you credit, however I couldn't find a particular license or credits in these sfz files. Would you give us permission? Thanks!
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Re: Stereo Rhodes Elec piano

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My GM drum kit should have had a CC0 license on it. You can do whatever with it.

The rhodes is gotten from a few sf2 soundfonts someone made nearly 20 years ago. None ever came with a license. I don't even know who made them. Back then, people who gave their work away for free didn't bother with licenses, nor fixate on "credit". It was all about "the work", and nothing to do with greed nor ego-stroking. It wasn't until years later that lawyers, self-appointed license police, bean-counters, accountants, and that ilk descended upon the (free) software world, decided everything needed to be licensed/signed/indemnified, and ruined everything. I remember freely giving away lots of software and samples I made, and never once did I even worry about a license. We didn't have to, because the capitalistic vultures hadn't yet been able to monetize software development to the degree that they destroyed all the freedom and altruism associated with it.

Anyway, it never came with a license because it was obviously produced by a person who values freedom and altruism. If you consider that good enough criteria to use it, then by all means use it. OTOH, if you need a license before you'll use it, then you're out of luck. I can't provide one, and I don't know who can.

A guy designing an "auto-accompaniment" hardware product asked me if he could use "Backup Band" in it. I told him that was fine because it was meant to be used freely. I said he should consider this an altruistic gesture, and somewhere down the road he should try to "pay it back" by doing something altruistic for others. That's the old-school way. And I'm old-school. My work is me paying back what altruistic gestures others did for me.

If I made something, use it. Don't bother wasting time with "permission to use". And don't bother giving me "credit". I don't care about that narcissistic crap. Instead of doing "lawyer nonsense" or flogging someone's ego, I'd rather your time/effort go toward paying it back to others at some point.

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On the other hand we have people like Stallman who predicted the current war on intellectual property and created copyleft back in the 80s so it can guarantee that free works stay free.

People who create proprietary stuff are criminals, they've lobbied such atrocious laws as copyright and patents so they can milk every penny out of other people. Real people die because they don't have the money to buy extremely expensive medicine that is very cheap to produce. Hell, my own life depends on such drugs.

Back in the day I was releasing my work under permissive licenses but after stumbling upon tons of proprietary stuff even on this forum such as LinuxSampler, Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra, No Budget Orchestra, Virtual Playing Orchestra, etc, I decided that I will never give anyone permission to use my works to make proprietary stuff.

We had unity in Free Software movement back in the 80s with our 4 fundamental freedoms, but then there was a mutiny called Open Source movement which greatly sabotaged our plans. Now there are such open source projects as Linux kernel, Ubuntu, Android and Coreboot that come loaded with proprietary blobs by default that don't respect our freedom, that are full with security vulnerabilities and backdoors.

I hope one day GNU folks will make Hurd usable in production so I can migrate away from Linux and proudly say that I use GNU operating system, not Linux or GNU/Linux.

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Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your answer. I was asking permission to use it and I was trying to figure out how we could give you back.
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Username0 wrote:figure out how we could give you back.
You don't need to do that (for stuff that's my own work). Just use the stuff (in accordance with the licenses). You don't need to ask permission, because that's already given to everyone when I distributed the stuff. And I don't care about credit (which is why, for my own work, I picked a CC license that doesn't require it).

But not everything in my collection of sfzs is my own work, which is why there are dozens of license.txt files there -- with varying terms of use. And there are even a few, like the Rhodes, where the author's intent was to not place any restrictions on it, but he didn't supply a license explicitly stating such.

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OK. Thanks!
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