source file: m1494.txt Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 05:00:54 -0500 Subject: Free Sample Material? From: Gary Morrison Granted, this isn't strictly tuning-related, but it is potentially useful for at least some of us. I haven't checked this out yet, but it sounds intriguing, especially considering how much I've paid people for sampling material! For whatever it's worth, I learned the hard way a while back that to do good sampling, you need to have a LOT of sampling material to draw from. There are plenty of guidelines the sample material must meet, some of which are more or less specific to the particular instrument or family of instruments. Whether these have those qualities, or are sufficiently voluminous I don't know. > The University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios are creating a free online > database of musical instrument samples. Each instrument has been recorded > in an anechoic chamber at three dynamic levels for each chromatic note. > The files are in mono 16-bit, 44.1 aiff format. > > We currently have oboe, bassoon, and horn online. We expect to have other > winds and brass by the end of the summer, with strings to follow in the > fall. > > Future plans include having visiting artists record representative samples > from the repertoire. > > The samples are on the University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios at > http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/. > > Lawrence Fritts > Director, Electronic Music Studios > University of Iowa > ------------------------------ End of TUNING Digest 1494 *************************