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>>>>> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:49:57 +1000, Mark Constable  said:
    Mark> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 02:09 pm, Pete Bessman wrote:

    >> ...  2) Walk through your massive library of samples and try

    >> different sounds.  ...  [Chris] > > Of course, there are tons

    >> and tons of samples available; but then, > > in order to

    >> express the music you're hearing in your head, you're > > gonna

    >> be spending hours and hours trying to find samples that > >

    >> work.
    Mark> Where might all these samples be ?
    Mark> A few of us are trying to put together a free and open

    Mark> General MIDI compatible set of GUS pats, initially, in a way

    Mark> that the raw samples can be built up into SoundFonts or even

    Mark> small light weight gigasamples, or instrument patches of any

    Mark> kind.
    Mark> Please excuse the blatant plug but I believe this is a good

    Mark> cause and we _need_ (at first) free and open source samples

    Mark> to suit GM/GS/XG instruments at http://freepats.opensrc.org
Mark, I didn't know about this project.  It's  really useful. I gave a

short try to the patch  set and made up a  draft Debian package out of

it.
You can apt-get it at:
deb http://apt.agnula.org/buildd/autorelease/ ./
If   you find them interesting  here  there  are  some sound fonts for

Fender Rhodes:
http://www.yeeking.net/index.php?location=Sound%20Fonts
It seems they are GPL.
bye,
free