How much do you would pay for an "Old Casio Toy Synth" sample library?

[JJBiener]

Not interested. Sorry.

[ghettosynth]

Not interested. Sorry.

What if he sampled it being destroyed, and while playing built in rhythms, in one of these:



That's got to be worth something, eh?

[alvfaria]

The old toy keyboards in a modern DAW based setup could be the spice you have missed in a production to make it great.
We are selling some of the "toy legends", the "Retro Gadgets BUNDLE" most of the best once in a bundle for 55 USD
http://www.store.precisionsound.net/pro ... PSRGBUNDLE
Now we have a sale so its only 27,50 USD.

And this is for sure; the sampled versions is much better than the real thing, its in tune and accessible via MIDI and ready to play without any hassle and preparations...
So I guess if the samples are good you could make a commercial library out of the toy keyboard you have but more toys would be better i guess, in a collection that could have a higher price.
The Price for each instrument in the "Retro Gadgets" BUNDLE library is 3 USD! and each instruments has a lot of presets and sampled every half note in the whole register + different tweaked programs, HALion, NI Kontakt and SoundFont format.

Best regards,

Lars

Your collection seems to be really interesting. Unfortunately I spend all my money buying this old casio and a condenser mic.

But, thinking about my keyboard... 98 melodic sounds x 49 keys = 4802 samples!
And I'll need to hit all the keys, one by one! (no MIDI here)
Then edit, loop, adjuste envelopes... It' not so easy work.

And there are the drum loops...

[precisionsound]

If it's a sample based PCM unit (as you say) you can make one sample (C3) for each preset and give it away for free. Our Retro Gadgets libraries are mostly analogue or "retro digital", none sampled units and requires every note to be sampled, to be realistic. To put that amount of work into an unknown PCM keyboard seems like a waste of time so, make it simple and free, that's my suggestion.
Best,
Lars

[paul psilas]

If it's not Kontakt format, I wouldn't pay a single dime.

For a well crafted Kontakt library (including the beat presets as MIDI, not audio loop, mind you), I could be persuaded to pay between 5 and 10 bucks.

/Joachim

Funny,I wouldn't touch it with someone elses if it were in Kontakt format,can't stand that thing,clunky space filling sampler it is,tho I do see its appeal,I can't be doing with all that registration crap,not anymore.

Maize sampler as a dll or standalone for both PC and Mac,thats a big improvement over that outdated native instruments sloth.

[alvfaria]

If it's a sample based PCM unit (as you say) you can make one sample (C3) for each preset and give it away for free. Our Retro Gadgets libraries are mostly analogue or "retro digital", none sampled units and requires every note to be sampled, to be realistic. To put that amount of work into an unknown PCM keyboard seems like a waste of time so, make it simple and free, that's my suggestion.
Best,
Lars

You're right. I'll probably do something like that.

(My dreams of greatness are over.)

[zvon]

I have at least 25 of these PCM "toy" keyboards, Casio, Yamaha and Radio Shack/Concertmate (made by Casio) and also larger Casios, a Kawai and one of the first Technics model from the 80s. I will at some point sample some of them for my own use but I will not release any of them because they're all sample (PCM) based instruments.

But if you want to sample yours for yourself no need to sample every key, as Lars mentioned, because it's very unlikely that it has a different sample for every key. But I would sample more than one key because the processing, stretching or speeding of the samples made by modern software sampler is cleaner and will sound different than what those keyboards do.

So it probably would sound closer to the original with a few samples per octave IMO.