[LAU] [ANN] Taijiguy GigaTron

Hello everyone

It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of the Taijiguy
GigaTron, a Mellotron sample set in Giga format.

The set is very kindly being hosted by the Linuxsampler team and can be
found here:

http://www.linuxsampler.org/instruments.html

The samples were made by Bernie Kornowicz (aka taijiguy on the KVR Audio
forums). The samples were recorded over a number of years and are freely
available from taijiguy's site[1].

Some of these samples were packaged in SFZ format with his permission a
couple of years ago[2]. Other KVR members have packaged the samples in
Kontakt and other formats[3].

With Bernie's kind permission, I packaged the samples into Giga format
using Linuxsampler's Gigedit. As the samples are his copyright and I
have merely packaged them, the Giga file cannot be released under any
sort of free licence, but is (and must remain) free of charge.

Each note of each sound is individually sampled, with no looping, in
order to preserve the essence of the Tron. A low-pass filter is mapped
to the modwheel to emulate the Mellotron's tone control. The Giga file
is keyswitched to allow fast selection of the different sounds:

"M400 Violins" -- EQ'd Mk II Violins
"M400 Violins Yes EQ" -- EQ'd Mk II Violins
"M400 Violins Smooth Ryder EQ" -- EQ'd Mk II Violins
Cello
String Section
Mk II Violins
M300A (violins)
M300B (solo violin)
Mk II Brass
GC3 Brass
Mk II Flute
Woodwind2
Combined Choir

My thanks go to taijiguy for his wonderful samples, for sharing them and
for his kind permission to package them; to the Linuxsampler team for
the wonderful software, for fixing a libgig bug that was hindering
me, not to mention also for generously hosting the Giga file; to Ryder
Duncan for his perseverance in trying to replicate the fantastic sound
of the M400 Three Violins[4]; to the developers and maintainers of a
number of Linux audio apps which I've made use of in the production of
this sample set.

Finally, for assistance with road testing, thanks go to my tame keyboard
player: some say he gets violent when not surrounded on three sides by
synths and that he can transmit midi control changes using telepathy...
all I know is, he's called Julien ;-) A technical demo of the sounds is
on the LinuxSampler website, but a musical demo of many of the sounds
can be found here:
http://juliencoder.de/nama/dream_of_the_old_land.ogg
http://juliencoder.de/nama/dream_of_the_old_land.mp3

Enjoy.

Q

[1] www.leisureland.us/audio/MellotronSamples/MellotronSamples.htm
[2] http://realmusicmedia.net/Mellotron.html
[3] www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=304393
[4] http://ryderduncan.com/themusicalbox/?p=33

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Received on Mon Feb 14 16:15:02 2011