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Re: Freesound: Repository of more than 500k CC licensed sounds and effects samples

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Post by MrLeap »

afandian wrote: post #2

I'm not sure if I'll find it here, but something I was looking for, and never found, is a selection of free instrument samples (i.e one for each note), enough to make a toy keyboard. Anyone got any recommendations? (edit - the tag seems to be 'multisample' https://freesound.org/browse/tags/multisample/ ) I found some good sets: https://freesound.org/people/Carlos_Vaquero/packs/9528/ https://freesound.org/people/tim.k…

I made this toy piano using a single sound effect, middle C. I pitch shift to get the others.

https://mobile.twitter.com/leapjosh/status/14230524867604111...

Re: Freesound: Repository of more than 500k CC licensed sounds and effects samples

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Post by afandian »

pcardoso wrote: post #10
afandian wrote: post #2

I'm not sure if I'll find it here, but something I was looking for, and never found, is a selection of free instrument samples (i.e one for each note), enough to make a toy keyboard. Anyone got any recommendations? (edit - the tag seems to be 'multisample' https://freesound.org/browse/tags/multisample/ ) I found some good sets: https://freesound.org/people/Carlos_Vaquero/packs/9528/ https://freesound.org/people/tim.k…

You can also use a single note sample (eg, C4) and tweak the playback frequency. This is how some keyboards do it. Also tracked music does it, simple and cheap.

Thanks! I played with trackers a lot in my youth! I mostly want different samples beecause I'm lazy, I'm trying to build something with an ESP32 and didn't want to put the effort into downsampling.

Re: Freesound: Repository of more than 500k CC licensed sounds and effects samples

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Post by afandian »

ronyeh wrote: post #7
afandian wrote: post #2

I'm not sure if I'll find it here, but something I was looking for, and never found, is a selection of free instrument samples (i.e one for each note), enough to make a toy keyboard. Anyone got any recommendations? (edit - the tag seems to be 'multisample' https://freesound.org/browse/tags/multisample/ ) I found some good sets: https://freesound.org/people/Carlos_Vaquero/packs/9528/ https://freesound.org/people/tim.k…

What kind of toy keyboard are you making? You can also consider Tone.js which is a synthesizer. Also, I like the sound of https://github.com/PencilCode/musical.js Those two above will allow you to make a simple website toy piano. If you are making a command line app, you can record the samples from GarageBand if you have a Mac. There are other cool command line options. If you're interested, let me know.

Thanks! I did something with a raspberry pi and PyGame a few years back and I wanted to make something with an ESP32.

Re: Freesound: Repository of more than 500k CC licensed sounds and effects samples

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Post by afandian »

moritonal wrote: post #4
afandian wrote: post #2

I'm not sure if I'll find it here, but something I was looking for, and never found, is a selection of free instrument samples (i.e one for each note), enough to make a toy keyboard. Anyone got any recommendations? (edit - the tag seems to be 'multisample' https://freesound.org/browse/tags/multisample/ ) I found some good sets: https://freesound.org/people/Carlos_Vaquero/packs/9528/ https://freesound.org/people/tim.k…

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't WebMidi[1] be a solution to your problem? Here is a piano example [2] 1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_MIDI_AP... 2. https://abbernie.github.io/tune/

Thanks! By toy I meant a physical thing, on an ESP32, for example.

Re: Freesound: Repository of more than 500k CC licensed sounds and effects samples

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Post by munificent »

pcardoso wrote: post #10
afandian wrote: post #2

I'm not sure if I'll find it here, but something I was looking for, and never found, is a selection of free instrument samples (i.e one for each note), enough to make a toy keyboard. Anyone got any recommendations? (edit - the tag seems to be 'multisample' https://freesound.org/browse/tags/multisample/ ) I found some good sets: https://freesound.org/people/Carlos_Vaquero/packs/9528/ https://freesound.org/people/tim.k…

You can also use a single note sample (eg, C4) and tweak the playback frequency. This is how some keyboards do it. Also tracked music does it, simple and cheap.

You can definitely do this, but at a very large cost in sound quality.

Most instruments that you're trying to emulate have timbre that varies widely across their frequency range. A piano key on the left side of the keyboard sounds very different from a piano key on the right side recorded and pitched down.

This is why sample-based instruments are generally multisampled. It's not to avoid resampling, which is generally efficient and sounds good. It's to accommodate timbre changes.

Re: Freesound: Repository of more than 500k CC licensed sounds and effects samples

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Post by beebeepka »

Thanks for this. Picking the right sounds for your chat application or game is important and not easy at all

For me, it was one of those things that I was clearly taking for granted until I had to do it myself. My first thought? "We need a sound guy"

Re: Freesound: Repository of more than 500k CC licensed sounds and effects samples

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Post by gardaani »

_qbjt wrote: post #9
afandian wrote: post #2

I'm not sure if I'll find it here, but something I was looking for, and never found, is a selection of free instrument samples (i.e one for each note), enough to make a toy keyboard. Anyone got any recommendations? (edit - the tag seems to be 'multisample' https://freesound.org/browse/tags/multisample/ ) I found some good sets: https://freesound.org/people/Carlos_Vaquero/packs/9528/ https://freesound.org/people/tim.k…

This collection of free SoundFonts might be of interest :) https://www.pistonsoft.com/soundfonts.html

Thanks, that's a very nice list! Although, their license texts aren't easy to find..

Re: Freesound: Repository of more than 500k CC licensed sounds and effects samples

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Post by dang »

Past related threads:

Freesound: Collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sounds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27260780 - May 2021 (1 comment)

Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27232297 - May 2021 (67 comments)

Freesound: A collaborative database of Creative Commons-licensed sounds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8858076 - Jan 2015 (6 comments)

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