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Sampled acoustic instruments at uiowa

Postby Mr_-G- » 01 Sep 2012, 13:30

I just came across this site which has a number of acoustic instruments sampled in an anechoic chamber and according to the information freely available to use.
http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/

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Re: Sampled acoustic instruments at uiowa

Postby mjbrands » 02 Sep 2012, 19:27

Ooh, that looks like a nice find :-)
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Re: Sampled acoustic instruments at uiowa

Postby GuiltD » 02 Sep 2012, 22:38

This is a cool site! But since its AIFF files, how do I patch them to the keyboard? I am a noob sorry
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Re: Sampled acoustic instruments at uiowa

Postby Mr_-G- » 03 Sep 2012, 21:43

Get a copy of Audacity (open source) and load the files
Then you can cut the bits you intend do use (those files have several notes played sequentially) and save them individually as WAV, sample rate 44100, 16 bit.
If you put the note name in the file name you save it with, then you can use the assign function directly after loading the files in the sample manager.
Maybe there is an easier way of doing this. If so, please share your "know how". ;-)
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Re: Sampled acoustic instruments at uiowa

Postby juholaatu » 03 Sep 2012, 23:36

Audacity would be also my choice. I think there is "an easier way". Nord Sample Editor can hande WAV files that contain multiple samples, so I believe you don't need to separate different sounds to different files (exporting each AIFF file as a WAV file should be enough).

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Re: Sampled acoustic instruments at uiowa

Postby Freak out » 04 Sep 2012, 00:04

Did anyone tryed one of these samples allready? :-)
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Re: Sampled acoustic instruments at uiowa

Postby Mr_-G- » 04 Sep 2012, 00:21

juholaatu wrote:Nord Sample Editor can hande WAV files that contain multiple samples.


Great. thanks. Something it is not clear to me. When using the Sample Editor, does the generated sample that goes into the NS2 contain extra silence that might be in the wav file? I mean, those uiowa samples have a lot of silence between them, would that inflate the size of the nsmp file? Or does it only use the playable limits?
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Re: Sampled acoustic instruments at uiowa

Postby mjbrands » 04 Sep 2012, 00:48

It includes the silence, but performs loss-less compression (no loss of quality). Likely periods of silence won't increase the size of nsmp files much. I haven't tried it myself, but try adding a large wav file containing just silence to a Nord 'sample' and compare the size of the original wav file with the resulting nsmp file.

Btw. I think you can set start and end points, so you could set it up to skip the silence.
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