Horst
08-27-2000, 03:15 PM
Hi,
following up an earlier post about the quality of orchestral samples, we have decided to put our amateur vibrato flute onto the web as freeware for everybody.
See http://www.worrasplace.com. (\"http://www.worrasplace.com.\") I just uploaded the 7.4 Meg Gigafile, it might take Worra some time to put it into his directory.
The idea of this Amaflute was to try out, how difficult it is to produce a natural sounding expressive flute with very amateur equipment and efforts, as we were not too happy with commercial products.
It is now up to you to evaluate or just use this instrument, if you like it. It took us 2x1,5 hours to record it, 2,5hrs to cut the samples and build the instrument, 30 minutes to tune it and 3 hours to loop the samples.
We recorded with two old amateur sennheiser mics, an old Superscope-cassette-recorder as mic-preamp and a Soundblaster AWE64 Gold as A/D. We sampled C-Major with 16bit/44.1khz with Sample-Wrench in our living room.
Sorry if you find any noise or distortion problems due to our limited equipment.
Still we think, that some of the samples could be better as my girlfriend, the artist, remarked. But maybe we will work on that later...
Use this flute best for tender, expressive solos with vibrato in the pp to mf range.
You might improve its legato-response if you cut the natural attacks.
Iīd like to encourage everybody to produce amateur samples as freeware, like our Amaflute - it is simpler than you think!
What about a nice and tender Clarinet ?
Any comments are well appreciated and might be put here or onto our E-Mail (see File-Info). Also recordings that use Amaflute.
Please use it strictly as freeware, i.e. no commercial use, no reselling of either parts or the whole.
ENJOY!
Horst.
following up an earlier post about the quality of orchestral samples, we have decided to put our amateur vibrato flute onto the web as freeware for everybody.
See http://www.worrasplace.com. (\"http://www.worrasplace.com.\") I just uploaded the 7.4 Meg Gigafile, it might take Worra some time to put it into his directory.
The idea of this Amaflute was to try out, how difficult it is to produce a natural sounding expressive flute with very amateur equipment and efforts, as we were not too happy with commercial products.
It is now up to you to evaluate or just use this instrument, if you like it. It took us 2x1,5 hours to record it, 2,5hrs to cut the samples and build the instrument, 30 minutes to tune it and 3 hours to loop the samples.
We recorded with two old amateur sennheiser mics, an old Superscope-cassette-recorder as mic-preamp and a Soundblaster AWE64 Gold as A/D. We sampled C-Major with 16bit/44.1khz with Sample-Wrench in our living room.
Sorry if you find any noise or distortion problems due to our limited equipment.
Still we think, that some of the samples could be better as my girlfriend, the artist, remarked. But maybe we will work on that later...
Use this flute best for tender, expressive solos with vibrato in the pp to mf range.
You might improve its legato-response if you cut the natural attacks.
Iīd like to encourage everybody to produce amateur samples as freeware, like our Amaflute - it is simpler than you think!
What about a nice and tender Clarinet ?
Any comments are well appreciated and might be put here or onto our E-Mail (see File-Info). Also recordings that use Amaflute.
Please use it strictly as freeware, i.e. no commercial use, no reselling of either parts or the whole.
ENJOY!
Horst.