On 15-Jul-07, at 10:30 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On Jul 15, 2007, at 14:40 , Jean Piché wrote: > >> A good sample set is not trivial to put together. The problem of >> licencing is also specially thorny in our case. Some of the public >> domain sounds used in TamTam may have slight restrictions and we will >> need to adress this before FRS. Whatever the situation and if >> resources are not readily available to develop a sampel set of our >> own, I strongly suggest that OLPC start looking at companies that >> would be wiling to licence one of their existing sample sets. Rick >> Boulanger did say last month that negociations were taking place with >> M-Audio to adapt one of their sample libraries. Are there >> developments in that direction? I would hazard that OLPC will not >> have the choice but negociate a deal with an existing sample company >> or, alternatively, record its own bank. GPL sounds do exist out there >> but the quality is spotty and not all categories of sounds are >> readily available. > > Does this sound useful? > > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Soundfont
From our fairly exensive tests, soundfonts are useful but soundfont players (in Csound in any case) are more CPU intensive and not useable for our purpose. > > There seems to be a free sound bank here: > > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/FreePats This may turn out to be just the ticket. Aparently free of all licencing issues. Many sounds are missing but it does offer a full GM Level 1 sample set. Thank you Bert! j > - Bert - > > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
