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Hi.  Thanks very much for your reply.
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:27:50 +0000

tim hall  wrote:

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>> One of the most obvious uses I can see for a sampler would be to

>> use it to provide instrumentation that the user doesn't know how

>> to play.  For instance, if I wanted to record myself on guitar

>> with a piano accompaniment, I could use a sequencer to write the

>> piano line and generate it through a sampler.  But that brings my

>> first question -- if you don't own/play the instruments in question,

>> where do you get the samples?  I've done a lot of web searching,

>> and found tons of drum loops and bass lines that are two measures

>> long and so forth, but don't find much in the way of e.g. individual

>> notes on basses.

>

> http://www.hammersound.net/

Yeah, I'd encountered this one before in the process of looking up

soundfonts.  One of the reasons I was looking at using a sampler

with individual note .wav (or whatever) samples, rather than a

soundfont, was to avoid running up against hardware limitations on

soundfont sizes (and thus sample quality and/or completeness of

font).  I hadn't thought of using something like fluidsynth.  I

guess I was reflexively thinking that the cpu overhead (as opposed

to using dedicated hardware for the synthesis) might slow things

down or eventually cause synchronization issues; but I guess it's

not obvious that it'd be any worse than using a software sampler.
> http://www.findsounds.com/
Heh.  I knew about this site, and had used it to look for sound

effects in the past.  But for some reason, using it to look for

instrument samples just never occurred to me.  Thanks.
> It's a time consuming business to make them from scratch, yes.
Oh, I wouldn't even mind the time consuming part.  It's the "not

owning the instruments in question, and (for passages beyond one

note) not being able to play them smoothly if I did" part that

stops me!  Heh.
Thanks.
-c
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