View Full Version : "THE KITCHEN SINK" - a free percussion library for Aria!
rbowser-
07-09-2010, 06:31 PM
http://www.box.net/shared/static/ns0xbdaa57.bmp
MP3 DEMO (http://www.box.net/shared/static/424d1t4hgp.mp3)
Your free copy of "The Kitchen Sink" Aria percussion library (http://www.box.net/shared/n9onog6lle)
(http://www.box.net/shared/n9onog6lle)plus MIDI file of the demo
and Word Document of the instrument list posted below
It's easy to use. Unzip the folder wherever it's logical and handy for you on your hard drive.
With an instance of Aria open in your music app, choose "Import" and direct the browser to where you unzipped "The Kitchen Sink," and click on the SFZ file. That should be the first file at the top inside the folder, and its icon will be different from the .wav files.
There they'll all be, all these kitchen sounds I recorded, spread across the entire width of the Aria keyboard. Truth be told - this has just about everything But the kitchen sink.
Note that when you import an SFZ file, Aria's fader won't respond, but the files will play correctly. Use the volume faders in your music app to control the over-all volume.
NOTES ON THE DEMO - I used two instances of The Kitchen Sink opened in one instance of Aria. One was just for the kick drum, the second instance was for all the other sounds. That way I could have the kick drum dry and the other instruments wet.
The demo was produced using the Aria built-in reverb, Ambience, on the Jazz Club 2 room.
The MIDI file in the folder posted above has the three tracks heard on the demo - Kick, Kitchen Sink and Jug. Just import it into your app and assign the MIDI tracks to Aria which has The Kitchen Sink loaded into it. This could be a helpful way to see how it all works.
--I wanna hear some nutty, fun music made with this - Hey, it could fit into some not-so-nutty pop music too, like as a substitute for synth drums like the well known ones from Roland.
AND - here's what ya get!---(this list is in the folder so you can print a copy for reference).
SFZ percussion library for Aria, Sonar Dimension, all samplers supporting SFZ
THE INSTRUMENTS
NOTE: Longer sounds, i.e. "cymbals" continue after key off.
Lowest 2 octaves
Plastic 2 litre soda bottle toots
C1
Beer box "kick drum"
C#1
Wooden spoons "side stick"
D1
Beer box and wooden spoon "snare"
D#1
Cook book pages flip "hand claps"
E1
Frying pan and butter knife "snare2"
F1
Beer box and wooden spoon "low floor tom"
F#1
Pot lid and wooden spoon "closed hat"
G1
Beer box and wooden spoon "high floor tom"
G#1
Pot lids "pedal hat"
A1
Beer box and wooden spoon "low tom"
A#1
Pot lids "open hat"
B1 and C2
Beer box and wooden spoon "mid toms"
C#2
Large pot lids "crash cymbal 1"
D2
Protein powder container and wooden spoon "high tom"
D#2
Pot lid and butter knife "ride cymbal"
E2
Cookie sheet and butter knife "chinese cymbal"
F2
Large pot lid and butter knife "bell ride"
F#2
Potato dicer "tambourine"
G2
Large pot lids "splash cymbal"
G#2
Cocktail shaker and butter knife "cow bell"
A2
Large pot lids "crash 2"
A#2
Toy ray gun "vibraslap" (OK, so not found in every kitchen)
B2
Small pot lid and butter knife "ride 2"
C3 and C#3
Protein powder container and butter knife "high and low bongos"
D3, D#3 and E3
Protein powder container and fingers "mute, high open and low congas"
F3 and F#3
Tea kettle and butter knife "high and low timbale"
G3 and G#3
Frying pan and butter knife "high and low agogo"
A3
Dried beans in plastic mixing bowl "cabasa"
A#3
Dried in beans in smaller plastic mixing bowl "maracas"
B3 and C4
Small vanilla extract bottle "short and long whistle"
C#4 and D4
Cheese grater and wooden spoon "short and long guiro"
D#4
Wooden spoons "clave"
E4 and F4
Chopping block and wooden spoon "high and low wood block"
F#4 and G4
Wash board and plastic scrubber - short and long strokes
G#4
Silverware drop
A4
Coke can
A#4
Scissors
B4
Paperbag shake open
UPPER OCTAVE ALL LOOPING AS LONG AS KEYS HELD DOWN
C5 and C#5
Spray olive oil
D5 and D#5
Pepper mill
E5
Drinking straw
F5 and F#5
Shaken not stirred
G5 and G#5
Chips bag
A5
Stacking salad bowls
A#5
Sharpening knives
B5
Garlic press
BONUS INSTRUMENT
C6 through C7
Cheese slicer zither
HAVE FUN!
Randy :hp:
Tim Perry
07-09-2010, 08:15 PM
Randy, this is absolutely fantastic!
It sounds like you really went all out on this. It reminds me a bit of a music concrete project in one of my courses a couple years ago. As a class we recorded random sounds (toilets, car engines, leaves crunching, traffic, wind, doorknobs, water bottles shaking, keys shaking, etc), and then we were each responsible for manipulating them however we wanted to create an odd sound calash type piece. But you've created an actual instrument along those lines. I'm sure that many of us will have great fun with this, and it might in fact inspire some music of its own.
Thank you so much for providing these great home brew instruments. Also, the sample song is great. I was not expecting such an enveloping kitchen sink experience.
Cheers,
Tim
englishgent
07-09-2010, 08:46 PM
Wow! What a hoot! Thanks Randy.
Now I'll have to think of how to incorporate Kitchen Sink into the piece for kalimba and recorder that I was planning.
reberclark
07-09-2010, 10:22 PM
This is the coolest thing. You are the greatest Randy. I'm curious - did you sample this stuff in the kitchen itself - or in your studio? A fine addition to our sound sources! Great work. Thanks.
rbowser-
07-09-2010, 10:47 PM
Ha! Great - People are starting to find this. Thanks for the posts, Tim, Owen and Chip.
I enjoy your posts so much, Tim - Your enthusiasm is so palpable. I'm glad you're getting a kick out of this little project of mine, and that you also enjoyed the demo I made from it.
Putting this together kept me busy the last 3 days. I wanted to delve into doing more with SFZ code. With the help of the online charts I posted on my SFZ thread, I did more with the coding on this than on the earlier Kalimba. The basic concept really is fairly self-evident when you look at an SFZ file.
An example of some of the simple things I did - Originally the "Jug" was in the upper octave, but that didn't seem intuitively right, to have a low instrument up there. I simply re-wrote what notes should play the sample, and what the sample's tone center was - easy fix.
VOLUME CHANGE - One of the things I kept fussing with was getting the samples in balance with each other. If you find any of the sounds too soft or too loud for what you want, it's easy to fix. Just double click on the SFZ file to edit it in Notepad - you'll see that some of the samples have been given a volume=X or volume=-X value. Change that to whatever you want to tailor the volumes, or add it to samples that don't already have a volume value added.
Fun that you brought up Musique concrète. When I was in Junior High, I was part of a small class of young composers chosen for a class taught at the University of Oregon. It turned out the professor was only interested in teaching us how to create Musique concrète with reel-to-reel tape. I remember the first thing he played for us was all constructed from clips of radio commercials. It was pretty wild stuff back then - the mid '60's. I haven't really thought about it for a long time though. You make me feel that whatever amount of taste I developed for the stuff back then is still with me. I have always enjoyed John Lennon's bit of Musique concrète on The White Album - "Revolution 9."---"number nine - number nine - number nine."
You cracked me Owen, picturing you using The Kitchen Sink, Marce's Recorder and the Kalimba all in one piece--hehehe---good luck with that.
Chip - your reply came in after I started writing this--I had the feeling you'd enjoy this, glad to see I was right.
Good question about where I recorded it - I did it all here in my little studio. I'd go into the kitchen, look around for something else to grab, never letting myself think too long - then I'd drag it back here and record it. - The Olive cooking spray was a bit tricky - I got worried when a bigger cloud of oil mist puffed off the plate that I was pointing the can at than I expected - Nothing seems sticky in here now though, so guess that worked out OK.
Yes, so here I was shaking the cocktail mixer, twanging on the cheese slicer, tooting on the soda bottle et al. I have a mike sitting next to my laptop clamped in a table top goose neck mike stand, fairly permanently plugged into my interface which is easily within reach - It's just so convenient here, I didn't want to break everything down and go into the kitchen. So like the famous mountain coming to Mohammed, the kitchen came to me.
Thank you all, lads. I'm glad my silly little project is eliciting some fun and smiles.
Randy
rbowser-
07-10-2010, 01:45 AM
A TIP about using "The Kitchen Sink."
If you look at the list of instruments (and they're all listed again in the SFZ file), you'll see that they're all equivalents of the General MIDI drum map. That means that GM MIDI loops and clips will line up with the way KS was programmed.
In other words, the notes that trigger kick, snare, hats, cymbals, toms in a regular drum module are the same notes in KS that trigger the take-offs on those sounds. The kick is an empty 12 pack beer box being hit with a wooden spoon. Cymbals are pot lids being struck.
That means that if you go to where bongos are in the GM spec, you'll have high and low "bongos" to play in much the way you would samples of that drum. Congas are set up the same way, with a muted drum, and high and low. You could take loops intended for those instruments and see what they sound like in this whacky version of the GM drum set.
And there are plenty of other non-GM sounds added below and above the basic drum kit notes.
But of course you can also ignore all that, and just thump those notes randomly, without regarding the GM drum set at all.
The demo I recorded (posted on the thread starter) started with various drum loops from drum programs like Session Drummer. The way those clips sound with KS as compared to a good sampled drum set is very funny.
I know this off-the-wall percussion set isn't really the sort of thing Garritan users would normally gravitate to - That was the main reason it was an amusing idea to me to do it! ~|
Randy
Raymond62
07-10-2010, 02:57 AM
Now that you have transferred your kitchen sink into an instrument, where and who is doing the dishes? :D
Raymond
reberclark
07-10-2010, 12:14 PM
Chip - your reply came in after I started writing this--I had the feeling you'd enjoy this, glad to see I was right.
Good question about where I recorded it - I did it all here in my little studio. I'd go into the kitchen, look around for something else to grab, never letting myself think too long - then I'd drag it back here and record it. - The Olive cooking spray was a bit tricky - I got worried when a bigger cloud of oil mist puffed off the plate that I was pointing the can at than I expected - Nothing seems sticky in here now though, so guess that worked out OK.
Yes, so here I was shaking the cocktail mixer, twanging on the cheese slicer, tooting on the soda bottle et al. I have a mike sitting next to my laptop clamped in a table top goose neck mike stand, fairly permanently plugged into my interface which is easily within reach - It's just so convenient here, I didn't want to break everything down and go into the kitchen. So like the famous mountain coming to Mohammed, the kitchen came to me.
one more small thing...that bitmap of the sink...is it your sink? ;)
rbowser-
07-10-2010, 12:27 PM
Raymond sed: "...Now that you have transferred your kitchen sink into an instrument, where and who is doing the dishes? :D
HA! All items used in the project have gone back to their previous dreary existence of being mere utensils. Such is the fleeting nature of fame and glory.
Chip "Reberclark" sed: "...one more small thing...that bitmap of the sink...is it your sink? ;)..."
I wish I had a sink like that - so convenient with the two sides, one for washing, one for rinsing. Doesn't that picture look like a robot face though? I could have added a little mechanical body to it. ;)
Randy
Peter Jeffrey Gale
07-10-2010, 04:07 PM
Thanks Randy!
I love off-the-wall (or should I say off the shelf?) instruments such as these.
Oddly .. I just may have a use for it soon ...
Should anyone need it ... it might make a good companion for this freebie:
http://jeremiahpena.com/site/2010/05/bathroom-ensemble/
Do we have any members particularly interested in "house" music?
Larry G. Alexander
07-10-2010, 05:02 PM
Ohhh-Mmmm-Geee! The boy has finally gone over the edge! Ell-Ohh-Ell ;)
No...this is a cool, wacky thing that you have sprung upon the world, Mister Random. I am looking forward to writing something with your new library that will frighten old ladies, little children and terrorists.
Thanks for your efforts. That had to be a lot of work.
This is going to be fun.
My Best,
rbowser-
07-10-2010, 07:59 PM
Ohhh-Mmmm-Geee! The boy has finally gone over the edge! Ell-Ohh-Ell ;)
No...this is a cool, wacky thing that you have sprung upon the world, Mister Random. I am looking forward to writing something with your new library that will frighten old ladies, little children and terrorists.
Thanks for your efforts. That had to be a lot of work.
This is going to be fun.
My Best,
hehehehe, fun post, Mr. Larry - thanks fort! yes, I probably have finally gone over the edge, but I'm glad to hear that you're still considering conjuring up one of your whiz-bang compositions using this. Would love to hear that. I'll listen to it from the loony bin to which I go.
A lot of work - well, what constitutes a lot of work is of course subjective. I did it in 3 days, but it was my primary pre-occupation during that time. Probably around 20 hours of work, and I consider that a very short project.
Have fun y'all!
Randy
marce
07-10-2010, 08:37 PM
Thanks! Very nice&fun sampling! I will try it when i have some spare time.
rbowser-
07-10-2010, 08:48 PM
Thanks! Very nice&fun sampling! I will try it when i have some spare time.
Thanks, Marce - It was fun to put together. And don't forget, you're the one who inspired me to do more with SFZ. I still have my limits, but learned more this time around.
Randy
rbowser-
07-11-2010, 10:36 PM
C'mon--don't be afraid. There's no reason every person on this Forum shouldn't have this percussion set. Super simple to use. As explained in the first post, just unzip it, put it where you can find it, and open up the SFZ file in Aria. There have been about 4 downloads so far - Get yer red hot Kitchen Sink now - it'll encourage me and other folks to do more free instruments for Aria.
If more instructions are needed, just ask, I'll be glad to reply.
Randy
marce
07-12-2010, 01:19 PM
Randy, your samples are very funny! And not only that, i believe that are very usefull, when you want some interesting fx sounds.
This mp3 is four notes from the Randy SFZ with some FX that DAWs offenly include. From your Kitchen to the suspense movie:
http://stashbox.org/951354/FXSamples.mp3
Wow, I don't know how I missed this thread on Friday. Downloading now, I'll have a chance to check these out later this evening.
Creative work Randy! I really like these home brewed instruments for ARIA popping up. You are quickly becoming an sfz warrior :samurai:
rbowser-
07-12-2010, 01:47 PM
MARCE! This is so great - I love the clip you posted---OOoooh, listen to that "jug" and the Cheese Slicer Zither sounds great in there--You win a prize, first person besides me to publicly unleash something done with The Kitchen Sink! Thanks so much for posting that.
hehe, thanks Chad. I don't know about becoming an SFZ warrior - but I'm having fun!
Randy
trimpe
07-13-2010, 12:57 AM
Wow. This is insane. I have absolutely no use for it... I NEED TO HAVE IT NOW!!! )(~
rbowser-
07-13-2010, 10:35 AM
Wow. This is insane. I have absolutely no use for it... I NEED TO HAVE IT NOW!!! )(~
HA! Wonderful response, Trimpe - Thanks. Go forth and make some insane noise with The Kitchen Sink!
Randy
DPDAN
07-13-2010, 12:44 PM
what a hoot Randy!
this is a cool thing you have done!
Sorry I didn't post sooner.
me
rbowser-
07-13-2010, 12:48 PM
what a hoot Randy!
this is a cool thing you have done!
Sorry I didn't post sooner.
me
hehe---Thank ye, Dan - Glad you caught this wacky thing I put together. Don't you think this would just be beautiful in a Garritan Christmas track? ~|
Randy
What a blast Randy! Nice work, it sounds like you had a great time putting the lib together. Ok, so I'll take the challange and put together a piece using the lib. I just need a week or so since work is being a bit....well, work. :) I've got a few ideas, the question will be can I make them come alive. ;)
-Kevin
rbowser-
07-14-2010, 09:00 AM
What a blast Randy! Nice work, it sounds like you had a great time putting the lib together. Ok, so I'll take the challange and put together a piece using the lib...
-Kevin
Thanks, Kevin! - This is great, that you want to try using it in a piece--Looking forward!
Randy
fred Holmes
07-14-2010, 09:22 AM
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic - Great stuff
Thanks very much
Fred
rbowser-
07-14-2010, 09:55 AM
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic - Great stuff
Thanks very much
Fred
Nice, thank You, Fred, for letting me know you're getting a kick out of this thing.
I'm not quite sure what possessed me to make KS. It just popped in my head one day when I was looking at SFZ info, and I'd just gotten through cleaning up the kitchen, banging pots around - Do a "found sound" percussion thing for the GPO gang, this little voice said. Why the heck not, I replied to myself. A few days later, voila, finis. It was fun.
TIP - A good starting point for putting together something like this is to copy and paste the SFZ code from a fairly simple SFZ instrument, like this KS collection. You can just use Notepad to edit it. If you have file extensions invisible in your folders, you can change that on your computer to be like the older versions of Windows where you could always see the types of files you have in your folders. You can't edit file extension names otherwise. Once you "Save As," you'll need to be able to save your file as .sfz, not a .txt file which is Notepad's default file type.
Like I said on my long "SFZ - A Start" thread, the biggest job is recording the samples themselves. You need some kind of specialized audio editing program like Sound Forge for creating looping samples. But so many things can be one-shot samples, like most of the plinks, bonks and thwacks in this thing I put together. Start with one-shots.
If you record your samples in a program like Sonar or Cubase, be aware that editing you do in the main window of a program like that isn't actually destructive editing. So when you've recorded a sample and there's the inevitable gap at the start of the recording, once you've trimmed the recording so that it's the length you need, dead air cut out etc--you then need to Bounce the track down so you have a copy of that edited recording--That new recording would be the kind of sample you'd need in your SFZ instrument's folder.
Randy
FLWrd
07-14-2010, 12:49 PM
Fantastic stuff Randy. I'm on holidays and don't keep up with the forum, but I did download your kalimba and your kitchen sink, and yes, it's a hoot indeed, but a pretty well sampled hoot, I'd like to add!
I don't know how you'd feel about it, but I can suggest you make your samples also available on freesound.org.
Greetings from Spain...
rbowser-
07-14-2010, 07:56 PM
Fantastic stuff Randy. I'm on holidays and don't keep up with the forum, but I did download your kalimba and your kitchen sink, and yes, it's a hoot indeed, but a pretty well sampled hoot, I'd like to add!
I don't know how you'd feel about it, but I can suggest you make your samples also available on freesound.org.
Greetings from Spain...
Hi, Flwrd - Thanks for the post. A hoot!--I should've done a sample of an Owl! Or me pretending to be one!
That's a fine idea, to post these SFZ instruments elsewhere. Freesound - I don't know if I've ever been there. I'll go take a look around, maybe it'll look familiar to me. But I know for sure I've never posted there. That'd be fun - Thanks for the good idea.
EDIT: AH yes, of course - I Love that site. I'd forgotten the URL - But I go there all the time for sound effects. - I didn't know people posted sampled instruments also?--I'll go take a look.
Randy
rbowser-
07-14-2010, 11:26 PM
I...suggest you make your samples also available on freesound.org...
Hello again, Flwrd
I really admire what's being done at Freesound.org. I highly recommend that everybody in need of original sound effects and some instruments to go there. It's incredible what they're doing--Members upload sounds they've recorded and/or produced, and freely share them. It's a sound designer Co Op.
Sometimes you'll find a sound which is part of a package a user has put together, like multi samples of an instrument. I found some very interesting things tonight.
But the drawback is that if I posted the Kalimba or Kitchen Sink there, it would be only the raw samples I could post. The SFZ files which lay those samples across a keyboard, and especially in the case of KS, have so much other programming info - the loops, volumes, start times - none of that can be shared at Freesound, as far as I can see. The samples are one thing, but it's the SFZ files that make them come alive.--So I don't see how I could share these things there in a way I'd be happy with. I wouldn't want the users to only have access to the raw samples.
Am I wrong--? Is there a way to share the whole SFZ folder at Freesound?
Randy
FLWrd
07-15-2010, 05:46 AM
I really admire what's being done at Freesound.org. ... But the drawback is that if I posted the Kalimba or Kitchen Sink there, it would be only the raw samples I could post.
I was reminded of freesound because of the sound packs and the high quality and good work there. But I haven't been able to find out if you could upload your sfz files there too.
I know there are sites that publish sfz packs, but usually the quality varies so much. I'll take a look again when I get home.
rbowser-
07-15-2010, 10:27 AM
I was reminded of freesound because of the sound packs and the high quality and good work there. But I haven't been able to find out if you could upload your sfz files there too.
I know there are sites that publish sfz packs, but usually the quality varies so much. I'll take a look again when I get home.
Freesound really is a great site, but as far as I can see, when people post multi-samples of a sound or instrument, it's the raw data. That would be something at least, but really makes the samples much less practical to use.
If there are sites with SFZs posted, I'd go for that. As with any user-generated data, I'm sure the quality varies a lot. Fine with me! It'd be fun for a broader audience to find this stuff I've put together. Thanks for the idea, FLWrd.
Randy
marce
07-15-2010, 12:40 PM
Freesound really is a great site, but as far as I can see, when people post multi-samples of a sound or instrument, it's the raw data. That would be something at least, but really makes the samples much less practical to use.
If there are sites with SFZs posted, I'd go for that. As with any user-generated data, I'm sure the quality varies a lot. Fine with me! It'd be fun for a broader audience to find this stuff I've put together. Thanks for the idea, FLWrd.
Randy
It would be cool be able to store them in some place as a .zip file. But, the interesting thing is that being sfz a text file, even you can attach it to the comments the wav files in freesounds.org
Denzel Parker
07-19-2010, 07:33 AM
Great work Randy. It's really interesting. Thanks for posting such an interesting article in this forum. Keep working on this nice kitchen sink.
Denzel Parker
rbowser-
07-19-2010, 08:46 AM
Thanks, Denzel! - Glad you're enjoying my little home-made percussion set. It would be fun to do some more work like this.
Randy
FLWrd
07-19-2010, 11:45 AM
If there are sites with SFZs posted, I'd go for that. As with any user-generated data, I'm sure the quality varies a lot. Fine with me! It'd be fun for a broader audience to find this stuff I've put together.
This is a good site for SF2 files (or: soundfonts, as they are widely known): http://www.sf2midi.com/soundfonts/, and it allows uploading; www.hammersound.net (http://www.hammersound.net) and www.soundfonts.it (http://www.soundfonts.it), also seem to allow it. However, everything seems focussed on sf2 files, and I don't really understand the relation between sf2 and sfz. I get the idea that sfz players can play sf2 files, but not vice versa. Hmm, further research required...
marce
07-19-2010, 12:20 PM
This is a good site for SF2 files (or: soundfonts, as they are widely known): http://www.sf2midi.com/soundfonts/, and it allows uploading; www.hammersound.net (http://www.hammersound.net) and www.soundfonts.it (http://www.soundfonts.it), also seem to allow it. However, everything seems focussed on sf2 files, and I don't really understand the relation between sf2 and sfz. I get the idea that sfz players can play sf2 files, but not vice versa. Hmm, further research required...
Sampling is really fun, and i enjoy seeing when someone evolves his own project and share when others. I like the way Randy documented what he did, and the info he give us about the real "instrument".
The bad thing about some soundfonts sites is that you cant really know the source of the samples. Hammersound and soundfonts.it are nice ones but not active anymore, afaik. The only working is SF2midi.com. It has lots of samples ripped from differents commercial libraryes. So, when a legit project is put there, well, you really dont know.
Sonare Coeli
07-19-2010, 04:33 PM
I don't really understand the relation between sf2 and sfz. I get the idea that sfz players can play sf2 files, but not vice versa. Hmm, further research required...
Here's the difference:
SFZ files are files that accompany a set of samples, or waveforms. A Sampler will open the SFZ file, which tells it how to use the the waveform samples. So, for example, let's say we have a very basic piano sample set that uses SFZ. You'll have a folder with 88 waveforms (one is a recording of each piano key), and an SFZ file. In your sampler, instead of you having to load in each waveform, map them to the keys, etc, you open the SFZ file, which includes all the information that the sampler needs to load all of the waveforms to the right keys, change their volume levels, define key switches for more complex instruments, etc.
You can think of Soundfonts as simplified Sample Sets - They're meant to be somewhat of a middle ground between samples and MIDI banks. Soundfonts include all of the sample files (they use waveforms as opposed to synthesized sounds) and the header (the part that tells the sampler what to do) all in the same package - a single file. The way the format works is supposed to be lightweight, so this does reduce quality. They're great for use in notation programs as a nice way to upgrade from the basic MIDI bank, and for lightweight computers if true sample sets are beyond system specs.
fred Holmes
07-19-2010, 05:04 PM
I am in AWE with all this stuff. Have to admit I had trouble getting "Hello World" to work in Basic so when I see all this stuff about sfz etc my head just goes into a tailspin.
Anyway - CONTRATULATIONS to all of you for this effort!
Fred
rbowser-
07-21-2010, 10:50 PM
I am in AWE with all this stuff. Have to admit I had trouble getting "Hello World" to work in Basic so when I see all this stuff about sfz etc my head just goes into a tailspin.
Anyway - CONTRATULATIONS to all of you for this effort!
Fred
Hiya, Fred - You really gotta trust me on this - I am not a techno kind of guy at all. I learn what I need in order to do what I want to do with a computer. But the ins and outs of programming of most any sort leaves me cross-eyed, bored, and grumpy.
So, imagine my surprise when I took a deep breath, had a look at the SFZ thing, and discovered that in essence it's a very uncomplicated thing. It's great that the Aria Player and Sonar's Dimension and Rapture synths are using SFZ - it's a real break through in making things powerful yet simple enough for end-users to dig in and do something with the technology.
Sound Fonts, very ably explained by Sonare on this thread, are much more complicated since the end result is a single file with all the programming hidden - But SFZ is a step back in simplicity of interface. There's a folder of samples and a text file that controls how they're played. Both can be accessed by the user.
So if there's something bothering you about something in GPO, for instance - with a bit of patience, you can figure out how to re-do the programming.
It's fun stuff - That's the bottom line.
Randy B.
Aubrey8100
04-27-2012, 12:58 PM
Kitchen is now an important part of every home.Kitchen should be clean and there should be useful things in the kitchen for the work.As we all know,there'r many useful kitchen appliances like refrigerator,mixer and oven etc.
I read out your interesting and informative description about kitchen sink.This is a very useful thread that will be referenced long into the future.
Keep it up!
Regards,
Aubrey
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Martygras
04-27-2012, 02:57 PM
This could be a sticky eh?
Great info, and a sound library to put on my drum pads. Nice.
:hp:
rbowser-
04-28-2012, 03:38 PM
Hey, now this is fun to have this thread revived. I had a great time putting this "whomp and thunk" group of sounds together for ARIA.
And then later on, I posted a Kalimba for ARIA, sampled from a very nice Kalimba I've had for decades. Then, most recently, I posted a Kazoo set. There are some other SFZs I done, like a nice sounding Banjo, using samples from the great free set of Philharmonia files - I posted that one this past November.
I haven't done any of this for quite awhile - I should get in gear and do more!
Randy
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