Free gig's

[Michiel Post]

Free gigs always seem to attract attention...

We\'ve uploaded a small free hammered dulcimer sample and a hobo on my site.

The original hammered dulcimer sample in Post Piano Suite vol. 1 never had loops, so it always cut the sound immediately at the sample end (after 4 sec). I made loops in the instrument, which can be downloaded at:
http://www.postaudiomedia.com/free/Dulcimer.exe (\"http://www.postaudiomedia.com/free/Dulcimer.exe\")

The hobo is at: http://www.postaudiomedia.com/free/hobo.gig (\"http://www.postaudiomedia.com/free/hobo.gig\")

Have fun!

[Michiel Post]

BTW the hobo is an organ patch from the Post Organ Toolkit, you\'ll have to add a large reverb to get the feeling of a church organ playing!

[PeterRoos]

Hi Michiel,

Thanks for sharing this with us! I like the Hobo program (no velocity, yep, that\'s the organ feel).

Is this Dulcimer Gig just an extracted version? I mean, it\'s based on only 3 waves...

Cheers,

Peter

[Michiel Post]

the Dulcimer sample dates back from the pre-giga days (you remember the previous century?)
It was an Akai (30kHz/mono) recording with clicks and pops. I updated this small file for a customer and decided to put it out for free.

Michiel

[KingIdiot]

Thanks Michiel,

Downloading. Will check them out later

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[Magpel]

Hey Michiel, thanks so much. free is always good, and the hammered dulcimer sounds excellent to boot. I iwll no doubt find use for this sample.

Question: I know very little about the hammered dulcimer. Do it\'s players have a ways of damping strings? I notice this sample has a long ringing sustain which makes a bit of a harmonic mess out of faster runs. Just curious. And again, thanks.

John

[Michiel Post]

The hammered dulcimer is mainly a pecrcussive instrument. Do the players have a ways of damping strings? When they have a hand free they might damp the strings. Normally they don\'t. The samples release stage is quite long, you may try to avoid problems by shortening the release a bit.
Michiel

[This message has been edited by Michiel Post (edited 03-01-2002).]