My sampled pianos

[sofia-m]

Hi!

I recently found this forum and thought that maybe some of you guys might be interested in checking out my sampled pianos at https://luciphercode.wixsite.com/sofia-mz

Cheers.

[Impostor]

Why not tell us some more about those pianos, the format, the sampling process? Justify our clicking on unknown weblinks, and prove you're not a bot in the process :)

[nils]

I'm downloading as I write.

[nils]

It would be really nice to have a license. I looked on the web page and in the files' README and did not find any.
If I may be so bold I'd like to request to read my article for the license choice:
https://hilbricht.net/foss-sampled-instruments.html

[sofia-m]

Hi,

the pianos are a Hamburg Steinway D, a Bösendorfer Imperial, and a fazioli F 308, all in .sfz format.
They were sampled at various locations in Italy at 24 bit 48kHz, 20 velocity layers in minor thirds.
License is Creative Commons Attribution.

[nils]

License is Creative Commons Attribution.

Does that mean if you record music with the samples you have to do the Attribution? ( I hope not). Or attribution only when you modify the sample libraries themselves, as sample libs?

[Largos]

License is Creative Commons Attribution.

Does that mean if you record music with the samples you have to do the Attribution? ( I hope not). Or attribution only when you modify the sample libraries themselves, as sample libs?

If you create an instrument for use in music, you don't have any rights to the music it is used in, nor can you ask for such conditions. To put it another way, noone who makes any sfz, sf2, lv2, vsti, sound module, keyboard or guitar has any copyright over any music they are used in, ever. If it was any other way then Fender, Gibson, Korg and Roland would have rights to most of popular music.

[nils]

If you create an instrument for use in music, you don't have any rights to the music it is used in, nor can you ask for such conditions. To put it another way, noone who makes any sfz, sf2, lv2, vsti, sound module, keyboard or guitar has any copyright over any music they are used in, ever. If it was any other way then Fender, Gibson, Korg and Roland would have rights to most of popular music.

Source?

That said, if that is the case it wouldn't hurt for sofia-m to confirm that at least for their instrument that was the intention.

[Largos]

Source? have you ever seen roland or korg on song credits?

[sofia-m]

This started out to provide my Dad with some piano libraries to play on his digital, then turned into a school project, and finally became an excuse to hop around Italy.
I must admit I'm not an expert on licenses but, as a free software advocate, I made these libraries available so that anyone interested can use them.
So, as far as I'm concerned, you can (and should) use them to play and record any music you like.

[nils]

In that case may I suggest to add to your README files:

This sample library is licensed under "Creative Commons Attribution", https://luciphercode.wixsite.com/sofia-mz
For the purpose of non-sample-library works such as music, sound effects etc. it is licensed under "Creative Commons Zero".

Using CC-0 instead of just writing "Do whatever you want" (or so) results in a well defined legal outcome.

[sofia-m]

In that case may I suggest to add to your README files:

This sample library is licensed under "Creative Commons Attribution", https://luciphercode.wixsite.com/sofia-mz
For the purpose of non-sample-library works such as music, sound effects etc. it is licensed under "Creative Commons Zero".

Using CC-0 instead of just writing "Do whatever you want" (or so) results in a well defined legal outcome.

Thanks, I will do that.

[AndersBiork]

Now go mature.

[LAM]

Thank you @sofia-m.

Would be nice to have a LICENSE file or at least mention in the README about what license these SFZ are released under.

Just in case the website will ever go down and one will wonder what license these SFZ have.

[Largos]

@LAM Read up, this has already been whined about.

Anyway, the Pianos sound great. Really nice job. They can layer on top of each other really nicely too.

I did add the ability to change the release in the sfz with a slight alteration

Code: Select all

<control>
default_path=Samples\
label_cc72=Release

<curve>curve_index=11
v000=0
v032=0
v042=.1
v064=.3
v072=.4
v073=1
v127=1

<global>
ampeg_release=0
ampeg_releasecc72=14

Also, I am not sure what you have the curve in there for as nothing seems to be using it.