A Prepared Piano with Sustain

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Kurt James Werner sampled a prepared piano on the CCRMA stage at Stanford and kindly shared them. I smushed them into a Kontakt 5 instrument. If some folks could take a listen and see if everything sounds more or less correct I would appreciate it.
Note this is a fairly lightly sampled piano with about 44 notes sampled in one velocity layer.
I've attempted to add a Sustain layer that should trigger when the sustain pedal is more than halfway down. I've never tried this before, so any feedback is appreciated.

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https://soundcloud.com/bigcat1969/a-prepared-piano

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A Prepared Piano with Sustain Pedal

Kontakt 5
A Prepared Piano

No Interface Version
A Prepared Piano - No Interface

Samples from https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kwerner/samples_such.html
Samples and Such by Kurt James Werner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Picture from http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/vie ... o-keynotes

Bonus Find: You can get another free prepared piano at http://www.areyouprepared.dk/

Also if you want weird Crotbow and Glockbow . There are based on samples from the One Laptop per Child sample project.
Last edited by bigcat1969 on Mon Mar 03, 2014 6:08 am, edited 4 times in total.
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what a great way to demo areyouprepared. thanks for that! downloading.

I'll check yours and get back with you here tomorrow.

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thanks! sounds good to me.

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Isn't that areyouprepared clever? I'm not sure who the chap is who did it, but I admire his talent.

Thanks to both of you for taking a listen.

I'm going to change the interface picture, I thought using a really old picture would be sort of avant garde, but instead it was just ugly. Also I'll put up a no interface version for those that prefer small footprints in Kontakt.
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I like that skin

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Does the creative commons license allow the instruments/samples to be used for commercial ($$) music?

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Musical Gym wrote:Does the creative commons license allow the instruments/samples to be used for commercial ($$) music?
Yes, the licence says explicitly "even commercial", but the library has to be attributed and provide some sort of link to the licence (although simply naming it is more or less the same thing).

Link to licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Thank you for sharing this. Downloading now...
Incomplete list of my gear: 1/8" audio input jack.

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You should credit Kurt James Werner for the samples, you do not need to mention me or the Kontakt instrument. After all using the instrument is really just a simpler way of the using the samples.

Thanks to folks for trying it out.
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Gamma-UT wrote:
Musical Gym wrote:Does the creative commons license allow the instruments/samples to be used for commercial ($$) music?
Yes, the licence says explicitly "even commercial", but the library has to be attributed and provide some sort of link to the licence (although simply naming it is more or less the same thing).

Link to licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Thanks for letting me know.

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I haven't found any problems on any key. All the knobs seem to do what they oughta.

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Thanks for giving it a test. In messing about I've attempted to add a sustain layer based on some further samples. I've not tried tying layers directly to sustain, so hopefully it works. I don't actually have a sustain pedal so am unable to test it.
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If you record a midi track with it and adjust (or add) the CC#64 to either above or below your threshold, you should be able to test it yourself (I don't have a pedal connected to this system either) but I edit the midi files all the time.

Hope this helps...

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Thanks I forgot about that! Also thanks jancivil for mentioning prepared pianos on another thread an getting me running down this interesting rabbit trail. Now back to saxophones.
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