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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 t

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/ https://freesound.org/browse/tags/multisample/ ) I found some good sets: https://freesound.org/people/Carlos_Vaquero/packs/9528/ https://freesound.org/people/Carlos_Vaquero/packs/9528/ https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/packs/2680/ https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/packs/2680/

tekstar 5y ago
You can also look for "sound fonts".
- IndySun 5y ago
  "You can also look for "sound fonts"" Good suggestion. Though, searching soundfont, would be more efficient perhaps?
moritonal 5y ago
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_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_MIDI_AP... 2. https://abbernie.github.io/tune/ https://abbernie.github.io/tune/
- validuser 5y ago
  There's no audio in MIDI - midi is like a machine readable sheet of notes.
- afandian 5y ago
  Thanks! By toy I meant a physical thing, on an ESP32, for example.
rb2e 5y ago
Try https://www.pianobook.co.uk/ https://www.pianobook.co.uk/ Tons of free sample libraries
ronyeh 5y ago
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 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.
- afandian 5y ago
  Thanks! I did something with a raspberry pi and PyGame a few years back and I wanted to make something with an ESP32.
_qbjt 5y ago
This collection of free SoundFonts might be of interest :) https://www.pistonsoft.com/soundfonts.html https://www.pistonsoft.com/soundfonts.html
- gardaani 5y ago
  Thanks, that's a very nice list! Although, their license texts aren't easy to find..
pcardoso 5y ago
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.
- afandian 5y ago
  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.
- munificent 5y ago
  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.
MrLeap 5y ago
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/1423052486760411136?lang=bg https://mobile.twitter.com/leapjosh/status/14230524867604111...
fijix 5y ago
Check outhe FreePats Project https://freepats.zenvoid.org/index.html https://freepats.zenvoid.org/index.html https://github.com/freepats/documentation/wiki https://github.com/freepats/documentation/wiki

tekstar 5y ago

You can also look for "sound fonts".

IndySun 5y ago
"You can also look for "sound fonts"" Good suggestion. Though, searching soundfont, would be more efficient perhaps?

moritonal 5y ago

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_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_MIDI_AP... 2. https://abbernie.github.io/tune/ https://abbernie.github.io/tune/

validuser 5y ago
There's no audio in MIDI - midi is like a machine readable sheet of notes.
afandian 5y ago
Thanks! By toy I meant a physical thing, on an ESP32, for example.

rb2e 5y ago

Try https://www.pianobook.co.uk/ https://www.pianobook.co.uk/ Tons of free sample libraries

ronyeh 5y ago

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 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.

afandian 5y ago
Thanks! I did something with a raspberry pi and PyGame a few years back and I wanted to make something with an ESP32.

_qbjt 5y ago

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

gardaani 5y ago
Thanks, that's a very nice list! Although, their license texts aren't easy to find..

pcardoso 5y ago

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.

afandian 5y ago
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.
munificent 5y ago
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.

MrLeap 5y ago

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/1423052486760411136?lang=bg https://mobile.twitter.com/leapjosh/status/14230524867604111...

fijix 5y ago

Check outhe FreePats Project https://freepats.zenvoid.org/index.html https://freepats.zenvoid.org/index.html https://github.com/freepats/documentation/wiki https://github.com/freepats/documentation/wiki