Free Sample Libraries that urgently need .SFZ mapping

[enroe]

It's in aria/sforzando format ...
Here it is :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uzj1yzse5rx5t ... z.rar?dl=0

Put it in the same place as the "samples" folder

edit (additional info) :
- rel on/off (cc67) for turning the release samples on/off
- legato (cc68) for activate the legato mode (monophonic)

The sfz-file for the "Gregjazz xmas bass" is incredibly
tidy and structured. Due to the "Includes" it is all nicely
arranged - and you can well go into the sfz code and
change things. So this sfz is really super felicitous!

Thanks Kinwie - and of course my thanks to the
sample-maker "Gregjazz"!

PS: Kinwie, did you consider to do a tutorial about
sfz on "sfzformat.com"? Your expertise could be
of great value!

[DSmolken]

More tutorials would be great, I've been documenting stuff as I'm using it in instruments, and we also have a few earlier tutorials that David made, but there are lots of areas I never get into. Also, a tutorial written by someone who can make working mappings for this many samples this quickly would be potentially very very useful to a lot of people. I can sometimes make things seem strange and scary with convoluted hi-hat muting rules, or separate humanization of unison voices, or whatever rabbit hole I happen to be going down at the moment.

[kinwie]

Here's the Sasje's Trumpet :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3s8kp8uzmr5f8 ... z.rar?dl=0

Since trumpet is monophonic, sustain pedal cc (64) is turned off and used as Legato on/off.
I also create defines macro for more user-friendly and flexible choosing desired Midi CC.
As example the AHDSR cc is not using standard cc but start from cc #80 so they are more well-arranged at sforzando panel (because we are using the generic panel )

sfztrump.jpg

Btw, some works are coming in but I'll post another mappings whenever I can.
Currently mapped but not finished yet is the David CP70, because a little issue for the 2 round robin that don't have the same velocity boundaries, where sforzando is strictly require same vel-boundary so I need to made additional overlap regions

[kinwie]

The sfz-file for the "Gregjazz xmas bass" is incredibly
tidy and structured. Due to the "Includes" it is all nicely
arranged - and you can well go into the sfz code and
change things. So this sfz is really super felicitous!

Thanks Kinwie - and of course my thanks to the
sample-maker "Gregjazz"!

PS: Kinwie, did you consider to do a tutorial about
sfz on "sfzformat.com"? Your expertise could be
of great value!

Thanks you for the comment,
Yeah because I just feel a well organized sfz codes seems to be parsed better in sforzando, but it just a feel...

Yes, Gregjazz's samples are very good, I also like his Jazzfunk Kit

To be honest, I never think about tutorial making cause I don't know what to cover.
There are great tutorials available at sfzformat.com. DSmolken done really great works at the site
Well, but who knows I find a good topic, possibly i can make one in the future. Can't promise...

[kinwie]

More tutorials would be great, I've been documenting stuff as I'm using it in instruments, and we also have a few earlier tutorials that David made, but there are lots of areas I never get into. Also, a tutorial written by someone who can make working mappings for this many samples this quickly would be potentially very very useful to a lot of people. I can sometimes make things seem strange and scary with convoluted hi-hat muting rules, or separate humanization of unison voices, or whatever rabbit hole I happen to be going down at the moment.

Thanks for the encouragement, definitely will consider it

[kinwie]

Here's David's CP70 :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i7c643k3pssjq ... z.rar?dl=0

I did a lot of fixes to the sample level, non-destructively inside the sfz file
The description at pianobook about the 2 round robin is actually different note samples, not a real round-robin samples. And it could be quite tedious to adapt the round-robin map into sfz, so instead, I create other feature using that round-robin key range. The 2 layers of the rr are set to left-right to become stereo presets. The stereo spread is controllable using cc 98 (or change the number as you like within the sfz)
While the mono preset combine those two layer into 1 key-range map, so less pitch-shifting.

The samples also been normalized within the sfz, and it result in "quite strange" velocity-splits. Will do more tweaks to it if any feedback comes in.

Well, I still in the lockdown period until next month...damnnn...
Normally, I have main day job and music/mixing side job which quite busy and not much spare time. So, I'll create more mappings while in lockdown

[kinwie]

mRhodes, here :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0lyzilvms7tav ... z.rar?dl=0

Nothing special on this one.
But as my knowledge is limited to how a real rhodes' response, I set the offset/sample-start, not too tight, near the viewable 'noise-in' before the transient.

[Obsolete462444]

I forwarded the SFZ mappings for those libraries hosted on Pianobook.co.uk to the Pianobook team. They should be available on the corresponding profile pages of the individual instruments in a few days (hopefully). I figured it's best to have these mappings hosted alongside their samples / instruments.

The non-Pianobook mappings should be available on the SFZinstruments GitHub soon.

[DSmolken]

Yeah... thinking about how to best make those available in a user-friendly way. I guess for instruments which contain samples, a separate repo for each instrument makes sense, but for these mappings, what do you think?

One mappings repo with a folder for each instrument kinda makes sense to me, but I haven't really thought through how it might work in practice for a user who wants to download just a few mappings and isn't familiar with Github. Do you maybe have a better suggestion?

[Obsolete462444]

(I just fiddled around with Github and created a branch of the mappings repository and uploaded the first mapping)

Here is what I think: guess one folder for each mapping is fine, since the individual folders should be immediately visible once a user visits https://github.com/sfzinstruments/mappings

So the user can click the individual folder for the instrument mapping of their choice.

Additionally, we could add a spreadsheet style listing of all the available mappings in the Readme.md of the sfzinstruments/mappings folder? Or, even better, we could present the mappings via a simple website using the Github Pages feature. I could do that (nothing fancy).

Currently, I don't have "writing rights" for that repository (even though I have member status), so I guess I just create the folders and upload the mappings in my own branch and then do a pull request once I'm finished? Is that the way to go? I'm not too familiar with GitHub, but I think I understand the general principle of how it works.

[DSmolken]

That sounds like a good idea, organizationally. Readme is a good easy place to list what's already there, and we could also have a Todo to track requested instruments, and we can "upgrade" to a more user-friendly page later.

I'd just sent you the invitation quickly earlier and hadn't set up the access, but I've done that now - created a Mappings team, added you to it, you should now be able to upload stuff directly to master, create folders etc... I think. Give it a try, if I need to upgrade you from write access to admin for that repository I can do that.

Any thoughts on what license makes sense for these?

[redtide]

About the website I thought to move the instruments section on sfzformat.com there.
EDIT: @Kazi7 what do you think about such solution, any idea? For me would be easy to replicate the site and move the files, and so adding the new ones.

About license I think it should be appropriated to use a CC-BY-4.0 at least for author's work attribution. Looking at the kinwie notes it seems he is using a public domain instead (CC0).

[kinwie]

The Kings upright, here :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f9x5pl6riudan ... z.rar?dl=0

Not sure how the added pad works exactly, no idea if it's crossfaded across key ranges or not, I just map the pad in regular way. If not good, just turn down the mod wheel

[kinwie]

Hey, thank you guys for taking care the upload!
I'm fine with any options.
For license also, I'll follow what you guys make

[Obsolete462444]

Okay, nice. Then I guess we use the CC-BY-4.0 attribution for the mappings. I will take care of the uploads later today.