Re: [LAU] Strange aiff files

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Paul Coccoli wrote:

> So are you going to release that sample set or what?!

I suppose I could.. It's really nothing anyone couldn't do with some
good mics and a sampler. Right now it's online at:

         http://www.keycorner.org/pub/midi/mpc/

It's not everything in that directory, just the files that end in
.tar.bz2. They're about 50MB each. If you extract those, you end up
with raw disk images that you can 'dd' onto zip disks, which can be read
by an MPC2000 with a SCSI zip drive. Of course the sndfile-info and
sndfile-convert commands offer the possibility of loopback-mounting them
as FAT, and then renaming each file according to the real long filename
stored in its metadata, too. After that you could convert to WAV and
use however you like without an Akai.

These files are in this crude format because all they're meant to do is
provide backups for me when zip disks fail. I haven't done anything to
make them particularly easy to use at this point. Also, I once had the
Alesis HR16:A and HR16:B drum machine pair, and since those machines
really offer nothing in the way of sound programming besides detuning, I
sampled and sold them a long time ago. Those were the kind of drum
machines that did not amount to more than the samples in their ROMs.

As for the drums themselves, they're nothing special, other than their
nostalgic value to me. The main reason I wanted them in the form of a
sample set is because, looking at all the sample libraries that I'd ever
seen, the market was filled with techno drums, studio drums, processed
drums, hiphop drums, even country drums...but no drums drums. I got
sick of all the processing and special EQ in these sample libraries,
which may or may not actually go with the song you're working on. It
seemed absurd that nobody ever seemed to simply offer a drumset, miced,
unprocessed, and not EQ'ed, as a sample library. That kind of sound
treatment is the kind of thing you probably want to do yourself on your
own mixer for the song you happen to be working on. (And it's quite
useful in an apartment!)

So if you're interested, go ahead and download, and please try to
remember, it's my residential cable connection. The things in my /pub
directory are offered for whoever may find an interest in the
non-private files I've got laying around anyway.

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