D. Smolken's multi-sampled double bass (aka contrabass)
by DSmolkenUploaded on Aug 29, 2015 (and last updated on Dec 27, 2015)
DSmolken at the KVR Audio Forum posted about sampling his acoustic double bass (aka contrabass) and how to best use the samples. Two primary sets of samples are provided - arco (that's bowed) and pizz (plucked) - with the addition of various "noises". If you check out his performance video, on YouTube, you might see what these might be used for... also the start of the demos below.
Arco is 5 velocity layers with 2 round robins, pizz is 3 velocity layers with 3-4 round rob...
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I want it to be reusable including letting other people make better mappings, or an EQed and normalized version or whatever, and reuse it in other sample libraries.
Deep Bass (based on pasta bass)
by j_e_f_f_gUploaded on Oct 09, 2015 (and last updated on Dec 29, 2015)
This electric bass has a pronounced pick attack. This helps cut through a rock mix where you have lots of bass-heavy distorted guitar "power chords".
My version differs from the original source in that mine is stereo, looped, has some noise removed, and includes a "legato mode" mapping.
Tiny piano (ogg version)
by Signal ExperimentsUploaded on Jul 24, 2016 (and last updated on Jul 24, 2016)
An even tinier (2.8MB) ogg version of this: https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/402
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Attribution is not required when using this for music performance or production.
Tiny Piano 00 (SFZ)
by Signal ExperimentsUploaded on Jul 24, 2016 (and last updated on Jul 25, 2016)
A tiny experimental piano sample library!
Demo: https://soundcloud.com/sig-ex/sets/tiny-piano-00
More info: https://sig-ex.com/2016/07/24/experimental-piano-00-sfz/
Artificial stereo panning and looping of long notes makes the over all sample library just 10.8mb without sacrificing number of samples, thus avoiding overstretching pitches.
For an even tinier (2.8MB) ogg version see:
https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/403
Use with Plogue Sforzando, or other SFZ com...
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Slender Salamander Grand Piano (44 kHz 16 bit)
by Alexander Holm / Signal ExperimentsUploaded on Nov 11, 2017 (and last updated on Nov 11, 2017)
A phase aligned version of the famous Salamander Grand Piano. Using velocity crossfading to simulate intermediate velocity layers, the original gigabyte library has been reduced to 389 MB (238 for the 44.1kHz version). From the original 16 velocity layers, 3 were selected then phase aligned. Furthermore, the SFZ library has also been re-tuned using the Entropy Piano Tuner.
More info:
http://sig-ex.com/2017/11/11/slender-salmander-grand-piano/
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