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For 150 GBP? No thank you.khz wrote:Great! Is this your website https://librewave.com/?d.healey wrote:I've just setup a website where I'll be releasing GNU/Linux compatible instruments and effects.
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Yeskhz wrote:Great! Is this your website https://librewave.com/?d.healey wrote:I've just setup a website where I'll be releasing GNU/Linux compatible instruments and effects.
It's lower cost than a lot of similar products, and probably the only one that is released under the GNU GPL.khz wrote:For 150 GBP? No thank you.
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How else is he supposed to recoup the cost of contracting real orchestral players to record high quality samples? In this forum we've repeatedly had people grinding their gears about how doing virtual orchestration on Linux is nothing but an exercise in frustration.Linuxmusician01 wrote:For 150 GBP? No thank you.
Finally somebody is actually doing something about it: brand new recording and processing of orchestral instruments with multiple consistent velocity layers, round robin, release samples, and three mixable mic distances.
This is no hack job of scouring the internet for free samples, this is the real thing. Maybe I don't understand the value of GBP, but I know that people spend hundreds to thousands of USD on orchestral samples in proprietary formats.
I for one am going to support this project monetarily, even though I was already more or less content with a free woodwind collection that I was using. David is working on similar plugins for brass and strings, the latter really has me excited; David can correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that his current plan involves divisi sections and many more articulations than the typical limited staccato, legato, tremolo, pizzicato that I have found in the free collections.
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Thanks for your support Michael.Michael Willis wrote:my understanding is that his current plan involves divisi sections and many more articulations than the typical limited staccato, legato, tremolo, pizzicato that I have found in the free collections.
My goal with all of my sample libraries is to make them playable in real-time, for this reason I avoid articulation switching through key switching or CCs and prefer to be able to create articulations through performance like a musician.
The strings pose a unique challenge in this regard as there are some elements that will definitely have to be key/cc switched or available as separate patches as there is no way to recreate them through clever scripting (at least not realistically). These include pizzicato, col legno, tremolo, bow changes, and divisi.
I haven't finalized my plan for recording yet but will do early next year before I begin but those elements I listed above will all be separate recorded "articulations".
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That's a very cool project if the Hise format allows quality playing, disk streaming and what we can expect from a modern sampler. Price is another question. In my view you should make a modest teaser in order to test the interface and behaviour of your plugins. Something like a recorder (flute), a toy piano, an ukulele. And give more content on the opening page of you site.
d.healey wrote:Thanks for your support Michael.Michael Willis wrote:my understanding is that his current plan involves divisi sections and many more articulations than the typical limited staccato, legato, tremolo, pizzicato that I have found in the free collections.
My goal with all of my sample libraries is to make them playable in real-time, for this reason I avoid articulation switching through key switching or CCs and prefer to be able to create articulations through performance like a musician.
The strings pose a unique challenge in this regard as there are some elements that will definitely have to be key/cc switched or available as separate patches as there is no way to recreate them through clever scripting (at least not realistically). These include pizzicato, col legno, tremolo, bow changes, and divisi.
I haven't finalized my plan for recording yet but will do early next year before I begin but those elements I listed above will all be separate recorded "articulations".
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HISE does almost everything except time stretching (which should be included at some point).stanlea wrote:That's a very cool project if the Hise format allows quality playing, disk streaming and what we can expect from a modern sampler.
Thanks for the feedback. What else do you think I should include? I have some videos and more demos on the way already.And give more content on the opening page of you site.
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You're the owner of Xtant Audio, right? Maybe port some of the free/inexpensive offerings you have there.d.healey wrote:What else do you think I should include?
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I'll be transferring them all over to HISE at some point. In fact the celtic harp is almost complete.Michael Willis wrote:You're the owner of Xtant Audio, right? Maybe port some of the free/inexpensive offerings you have there.d.healey wrote:What else do you think I should include?
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Just a disclaimer : "home of Librewave, a new set of sound libraries for music production for Win, Mac and Linux .... blah blah"Michael Willis wrote:You're the owner of Xtant Audio, right? Maybe port some of the free/inexpensive offerings you have there.d.healey wrote:What else do you think I should include?
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Do their soundfonts contain multiple velocities for instruments & orhestras? Do they have pizzicato, stacato, etc?glowrak guy wrote:https://www.digitalsoundfactory.com/
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I just don't like commercial advertisements in a forum, that's all.Michael Willis wrote:How else is he supposed to recoup the cost of contracting real orchestral players to record high quality samples? In this forum we've repeatedly had people grinding their gears about how doing virtual orchestration on Linux is nothing but an exercise in frustration.Linuxmusician01 wrote:For 150 GBP? No thank you.
Finally somebody is actually doing something about it: brand new recording and processing of orchestral instruments with multiple consistent velocity layers, round robin, release samples, and three mixable mic distances.
This is no hack job of scouring the internet for free samples, this is the real thing. Maybe I don't understand the value of GBP, but I know that people spend hundreds to thousands of USD on orchestral samples in proprietary formats.
I for one am going to support this project monetarily, even though I was already more or less content with a free woodwind collection that I was using. David is working on similar plugins for brass and strings, the latter really has me excited; David can correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that his current plan involves divisi sections and many more articulations than the typical limited staccato, legato, tremolo, pizzicato that I have found in the free collections.
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FWIW, personally I'm happy that there is work being done on an opensource modern sampler, and that there are samples appearing be they commercial or free.
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Kidding apart, I'm all for libre but don't really mind when it's not gratis... And audio on Linux is in dire need of good orchestral samples...
Don't know if you've noticed, but at the bottom of every page of the forum there is nowdays a "hosting sponsored by MOD Devices GmbH"
Kidding apart, I'm all for libre but don't really mind when it's not gratis... And audio on Linux is in dire need of good orchestral samples...
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Now tried it again:tavasti wrote:Have you managed to get their UI's working on linux? Sforzando runs with wine, but drag'n'drop karoryfer xml did not work.
- Opening menu from 'instrument' can load sfz files or also Karoryfer provided xml files on their instruments.
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Did not yet got it to Mixbus, but I suppose with carla/linvst/airwave it works.
Tried Karoryfer Scary Piano, Bigcat Cello and String Cyborgs, all seem to work ok.
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