Link to U of IIllinois piano samples?

[P.T.]

Does anyone know the url?

[Krakatau]

So U too ?



I'm looking for it as well ...

[P.T.]

I googled for it and couldn't find it.

[smp]

You're not thinking of the University of Iowa instrument samples are you?

They can be found at http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html

-s

[Lunch Money]

They're not compiled into a soundfont, though, as someone indicated the "Illinois" ones were, in another thread. (I couldn't find the Illinois one, either).

However, pljones did a few sfz mappings of the Iowa samples, which can be found HERE.

Greg

[pljones]

Actually, having listened to the piano samples rather a lot now, I think there is a soundfont based on them. Can't remember which right now but it doesn't reflect the quality of the originals. Of course, it also doesn't take 1.3Gb of disk space...

[frootbat]

If you're looking at the Univ of Iowa samples, they will also need a lot of work to make them usable for this - they vary wildly in length (from a few milliseconds to more than a minute), most have a long silence at the start, and they're really noisy (lots of electrical noise). I played with them some and they're just not worth the effort to clean them up.

[Meffy]

Nothing to contribute here, sorry. Just wanted to mention that every time this thread comes up in the message list, I can't help hearing in my head piano performances of college football "fight songs." :-D

Meffy

[pljones]

I played with them some and they're just not worth the effort to clean them up.

Did you try the sfz piano map I did? I think it's the nicest piano I've heard... (I haven't actually checks how good the timings and levels are technically...)

But they're really, really hard work *nodnod*.

[Lunch Money]

pljones,

I tried your mappings! Quite sweet, indeed. It's a very balanced piano and a great mapping.

Greg