[sugar] Audio sample bank on the XO.

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sun Jul 15 10:30:20 EDT 2007


On Jul 15, 2007, at 14:40 , Jean Piché wrote:

> A good sample set is not trivial to put together. The problem of
> licencing is also specially thorny in our case.  Some of the public
> domain sounds used in TamTam may have slight restrictions and we will
> need to adress this before FRS.  Whatever the situation and if
> resources are not readily available to develop a sampel set of our
> own, I strongly suggest that OLPC start looking at companies that
> would be wiling to licence one of their existing sample sets. Rick
> Boulanger did say last month that negociations were taking place with
> M-Audio to adapt one of their sample libraries.  Are there
> developments in that direction?  I would hazard that OLPC will not
> have the choice but negociate a deal with an existing sample company
> or, alternatively, record its own bank. GPL sounds do exist out there
> but the quality is spotty and not all categories of sounds are
> readily available.

Does this sound useful?

	http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Soundfont

There seems to be a free sound bank here:

	http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/FreePats

- Bert -




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