Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Very Impressive

[Frank N. <bea...@we...>]

Hi list,
Mark Constable <ma...@re...> wrote:

> Just want to say that I tried CVS from about 48 hours ago,
> and also downloaded the the FreePiano.gig soundfont(?), and
> my running instance has been going ever since without any
> crashes. There's something not quite right about the attack
> of the notes but maybe I'm not used to hearing such basically
> good piano sounds (except for being stuck on the same volume).
> 
> I'd like to thank all the people involved, excellent work :)

I'd like to chime in on that here. I was not able to build current CVS versions for 
a while because I needed to update my Debian's automake, but now I could
just build it again, tried it, and it has worked very flawlessly so far. Oh, and yes -
that FreePiano is really nice! On a 1 GHz Athlon with both arms pressing as 
many keys as I could (around 38 voices),
I never managed to go beyond 9 % CPU consumption (according to gkrellm). 
Cool! :-) Putting some string sound from a synth below the piano already gives 
a very nice orchestra-like touch.

However, did anyone besides me notice that in that FreePiano gig file the C2
and C3 samples are having some "cracks" in them? That disturbed me
immediately when I began to play. I tried to locate the exact position in Sweep, 
but couldn't yet find it.. Maybe another sound editor gives better ways to
approximate and correct those bad spots. At first I thought that's bad pitch-shifting/
dithering code, but it appears in the original sample as well, when played at the
original pitch.

Now if the release part of the envelope would be a little softer.. :-)

Good work!
Frank