Malaclypse the Younger's SFZ instruments now easier to find via Github (and still free)

[DSmolken]

Some of these very interesting instruments have been around for years, and keep getting updates. The Kalimbass is new, an experiment with hairpins and electric guitar pickups. Malaclypse the Younger is also one of the regular demo authors and beta testers for Karoryfer.

All at https://github.com/Mal2-ksc but here are the direct download links:

Kalimbass https://github.com/Mal2-ksc/Kalimbass/r ... 23.06a.rar
BJAM https://github.com/Mal2-ksc/Blue-Jeans- ... .23.04.rar
Party Pipes https://github.com/Mal2-ksc/Party-Pipes ... .23.05.rar
The Clap https://github.com/Mal2-ksc/The-Clap/re ... .22.07.rar
Tofurkey https://github.com/Mal2-ksc/Tofurkey/re ... .20.12.rar
Breezy Day https://github.com/Mal2-ksc/Breezy-Day/ ... .21.08.rar

[enroe]

Oh, that's great. Here's a talented musician making
some really awesome sampled instruments available to
the whole community. He calls himself "Malacypse the
Younger".

Especially gorgeous: If you take a closer look, you can
see that Mala really put a lot of effort into it:

• The guitar sample package, for example, named
  "BJAM", consists of ogg samples and is therefore
  particularly compact on the hard disk.

• You can select many different articulations
  via keyswitch. Really superb job!

So all in all I can say: Somebody put a lot of effort into
putting together fantastic sfz libraries with a lot of love.
Malacypse the Younger: Thank you very much!

[DSmolken]

Party Pipes (which is mostly wind instruments) updated with a slapophone, which is like a sewer pipe marimba but basically just one note sampled with velocity layers and round robins, then stretched across several octaves. https://github.com/Mal2-ksc/Party-Pipes ... .23.06.rar

[enroe]

I used to have BJAM = "Blue Jeans and Moonbeams",
downloaded and tried. I can only recommend these guitars,
they can compare with the best guitar libraries:

1. 4-5 times velocity switch
2. 11 articulations: sustain, solo, legato, chugs ...
3. complex control by various controllers
4. pitch-bend per guitar string
5. all as SFZ

The developer has taken a lot of effort and time to create a
real guitar with all its peculiarities as a multisample. My big
thanks to the developer, "Malaclypse the Younger"!

[Mal2-ksc]

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BJAM has been updated, adding a capability that I should have added long ago: now you can access harmonics 4 and 6 by pressing the Sostenuto pedal (CC66) -- the same pedal used for Legato mode since there is no Legato mode for harmonics -- and using Harmonic 2 and Harmonic 3 keyswitches. This provides the ability to select any harmonic from 2 to 7 with the correct Fundamental bleed-through (should you dial any in).

https://github.com/Mal2-ksc/Blue-Jeans-and-Moonbeams/releases/download/v4.23.07/BJAM.4.23.07.rar (https://github.com/Mal2-ksc/Blue-Jeans-and-Moonbeams/releases/download/v4.23.07/BJAM.4.23.07.rar) Oh well, since I'm new and the system doesn't trust me, I guess you'll have to copypaste the link it won't allow me to make.

I would say "it's pretty much done" but I would have said that three months ago too. As for the decisions to use OGG and a lower sampling rate: both methods of decreasing the data set acknowledge that first, nothing over about 10k makes it out of a guitar cabinet, and second, that the signal chain you apply is going to overwhelm any differences between FLAC and OGG. It's an electric guitar, you're expected to apply your own tone shaping and saturation and such. None of that applies to the acoustic guitar which was also decreased in sample rate -- but in that case it's because it's just not a very good guitar and nothing pleasant was left over 8kHz or so.

I apologize for the weird, hacky nature of the control scheme, but much like IPv4, I didn't put enough room for growth in the original design without using such hacks. It was initially designed around the needs of a single song, but has gradually accreted features like a katamari over the course of five years. These features get bolted on as best I can without breaking backward compatibility.

If I can borrow a nice instrument to sample (maybe a nylon string classical, or even gut strings if you can trust me) then maybe there will be a BJAM 5, and I can realign the control system to seem a bit more like it was thought out in advance, and toss out the backward compatibility since you can have both versions of the instrument installed and loaded, even within the same project.

Any suggestions for a saner keyswitch interface? If I turn hand position into a MIDI CC (which would be much easier to process also) then I can still fit everything in one octave of keyswitches... I think.

[enroe]

BJAM has been updated, adding a capability that I should have added long ago: now you can access harmonics 4 and 6 by pressing the Sostenuto pedal (CC66), the same pedal used for Legato mode since there is no Legato mode for harmonics) and using Harmonic 2 and Harmonic 3 keyswitches. This provides the ability to select any harmonic from 2 to 7 with the correct Fundamental bleed-through (should you dial any in).

Thank you, Mal2!

[Mal2-ksc]

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My entire GitHub account has been removed, and I will return to self-hosting on Google Drive because I'm being forced to turn on 2FA, which is incredibly annoying because they assume I have a phone. I don't even have a mobile phone contract and don't want one, and that makes things like this very inconvenient. I also can't sign up to use the latest Stable Diffusion because they only accept mobile numbers. I refuse to pay for the privilege of being tracked everywhere 24/7, and if this is the cost of being part of the New Digital Age, I guess I'm choosing to stay behind.

The list of all Malaclypse the Younger instruments, including those that were never on Github, is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/15XB ... 8O8PDTnS3o (https://docs.google.com/document/d/15XBK9LqTsNRG14JD23bidiAvaEaj8UXcT8O8PDTnS3o)

[spigmu]

Mal2-ksc, thank you for your generosity putting these up for download.

[Mal2-ksc]

Mal2-ksc, thank you for your generosity putting these up for download.

It helped that I never took them off Google Drive, even when I posted them to Github, so all I had to do was change the links back in my master document.

Almost all of my instruments are MIT-licensed unless they're CC0 to match the terms of third-party samples. Either way, that means you may host mirrors of them if you like. The licenses also clearly state there are NO license terms applied to the sounds you create, only to redistribution of the software itself or portions of.

I built them all to suit my own requirements, but I figure the needs of at least some other people will be similar to mine, and sharing the instruments helps them while costing me nothing but cloud storage allocation.

[enroe]

Almost all of my instruments are MIT-licensed unless they're CC0 to match the terms of third-party samples. Either way, that means you may host mirrors of them if you like. The licenses also clearly state there are NO license terms applied to the sounds you create, only to redistribution of the software itself or portions of.

Thank you, Malaclypse!