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hey guys, I am wondering if I can get some opinions on a project I'm considering.

I sampled an old wurlitzer EP on every key, with vibrato both on and off, at about 10 velocities per key. I have the samples, but they're just sitting on my hard-drive because I haven't really had time to organize them, clean 'em up, and lay them out into a kontakt patch.

I am wondering if there is any kind of market for this type of thing any more. Are there too many free EP sample sets? Synths?

I would give them away for free, but I can't afford to spend the time laying out a huge patch with no hope of making a few bucks back - money is tight (what else is new) and I can make more doing graphics or something. :roll:

The samples are good but they're not going to compete in quality with the big guys. I'd be willing to sell it, when it was done, for something like $20.

Do people think that this would work, or would I be better off just releasing the samples into the world in a raw state, and then let some person with more free time organize them into a usable patch?

Right now, what's done:
samples are arranged into vibrato / no vibrato folders
the samples are labeled with the correct key

What still needs to be done:
-Noise reduction/cleaning
-Slicing multi-strike samples into single-hits
-adding correct velocity labels to samples
-arranging samples into a multi-sample patch (prob. kontakt)

slicing and noise reduction (yes, the need noise reduction... sue me) should be fast and easy, the rest should be hard and tedious, I think. Any advice or thoughts?

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Well, LearJeff has already sampled his Rhodes and is giving it away: http://www.learjeff.com/sf/sf.html
Plenty of others available, such as the excellent MrRay plugin (not sampled-based)

Your project contains more velocity layers and more keys, so it's bigger and requires more work. You're the best judge on weather it can withstand the competition and justifies a price tag.
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Right, I'm aware of those, which is why I question whether it's a good idea to proceed. I suppose a good strategy would be to complete the project, then if it turns out to have legs, keep selling it, if not, give it away for free and use it to generate traffic for other stuff.

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I believe a gentleman named Greg Sullivan has a nice free Wurlitzer sample set but it is not exactly the 200A model. Which model Wurlitzer do you have? The Wurlitzer sample set which I think is Sullivan's is quite nice and I use it a lot, mainly because I cannot justify the expense of the more-pricey sample sets for my hobby. From my perspective, it would be nice to have another less-expensive option for Wurlitzer samples but I am not sure how profitable it would be for you.

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Well, it would be pure profit, since I made the sample set without spending any money, but then again it depends on the estimation of the value of my time ;)

Anyway, the model is some cheap, obscure wurlitzer, I think it is just labeled "wurlitzer student piano" or something like that. Maybe rare and old but certainly not famous or prestigious.

On the plus side, it's probably a bit unique, on the down side, it's probably not as nice-sounding. Is anyone out there in the market for $15-$25 Wurly samplesets?

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