The OLPCsound Sample Archive - available online now

This just in from the One Laptop Per Child project. Dr. Richard
Boulanger sent this to me, since I contributed some sound samples to
the project. There is more than samples being released, also new
versions of Csound and add ons.
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The Berklee College of Music, Berklee Music Synthesis Alumni,
The International Csound Community, Open Path Music and Avid
Technology have opened up their sound libraries to the children of the
world - and to YOU!!!

This 8.5 GB collection is donated under the Creative Commons
Attribution License which means you can freely create, compose, mix,
remix, share, distribute and redistribute these samples and use them
for any purpose as long as you clearly attribute the source.

At last... free - thanks to all those who contributed.

Spread the word. Share the sounds.....

-doctorB

Here are the links:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Sound_samples

Here's the *Official* OLPC Press Release:

http://csounds.com/OLPC_SoundSampleArchive.doc.zip

While you are checking out the links and downloading the samples, you
might want to check out all the cool CsoundXO stuff that has been
happening on the OLPC XO laptop:

Over these past two months the CsoundXO Developers - especially John
ffitch, Victor Lazzarini, Andres Cabrera, Jacob Joaquin, Cesare
Marilungo, and Greg Thompson have really pushed out some new and
important tools and activities for the XO. Links to some of these are
below.

A most important result of this development initiative is the fact
that John and Victor got the CsoundXO subset of Csound5 to be FULLY
SYNCHRONIZED and TOTALLY COMPATIBLE with the current release of
Public Csound (and automated the process so that they will ALWAYS be
in sync!) and Andres has a CsoundXO manual that is fully synchronized
as well!!!!!

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Csound
+ Links to the Csound Activities, the new RPM!, the developer tools
(by Victor), and the toots.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Csndsugui
+ Victor Lazzarini's AMAZING new GUI TOOLKIT for Csound Activity
Development on the XO
+ Victor has developed a wonderful small collection of tutorial
activities with sliders and buttons controlling CsoundXO
- waves - a simple additive synth
- synth - a subtractive synth with USB keyboard control
- playfiles - an 8 track remixer with record capability
- GMplayer - an iterface and instrument for loading and playing any GM
file with Csound - using the Avid/M-Audio donated Sample Set

http://www.thumbuki.com/20080317/step-and-funny-talk-for-the-olpc.html
+ Jacob Joaquin's new Activities developed with Victor's Toolkit and
his blog and tutorials about the process.

* coming soon (within the next two weeks) by Greg Thompson

- CsoundEditor/Launcher - with virtual MIDI piano keyboard and
CsoundXO manual integrations
+ including ALL the Boulanger Tutorials - TOOTS, Csound Book Chapter
1, Mastering Csound, Scanned Synthesis
+ including thousands of instruments and models from The Csound
Catalog plus dozens of compositions and MIDI instruments,

- CsoundRemixer - for jamming with the OLPCsound Sample Archive (and
adding Csound FX instruments)

- GMPlayAlong - for playing general MIDI files with Csound and
visualizing the tracks on the ascii keyboard, virtual piano keyboard
and pianoroll

- PlayAlong Keyboard - for playing Csound Instruments from a USB
and/or Virtual Keyboard: GMplayer, Sampler, SynthExplorer (all sorts
of synths)

* coming soon (within the next two weeks) by Cesare Marilungo

- Image2Sound - for the sonification of pictures and drawings from the
Journal and other OLPC Activities using his new image opcode collection.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:CSound - some thoughts on Csound for
press and others

Here are the links to the XO Bundled Sound Activities
(including especially the Csound Masterpiece by Jean Piché and Company
- TamTam Mini, TamTam Jam, TamTam Edit, and the SynthLab)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tamtam - all Csound - AMAZING - INTUITIVE -
POWERFUL - and for Children!

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pippy (Some Csound)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Memorize (Some Csound)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure (Making the Csound connection now)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Record (capturing audio for Csound and
Photos for Image2Csound conversion - thanks to Cesare Marilungo's new
Opcodes!)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Draw (paint program which with Image2Csound
and Cesare's opcodes - can now be transformed to audio.)
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Prent Rodgers

Prent Rodgers wrote:
> This just in from the One Laptop Per Child project. Dr. Richard
> Boulanger sent this to me, since I contributed some sound samples to
> the project. There is more than samples being released, also new
> versions of Csound and add ons. How well are they going to work microtonally? I heard they were based on Sound Fonts. Some ways to get them working in Csound bypass the natural free-pitch support.

Graham

oh.
my.
goodness.

thanks for posting this here. I'd probably not have seen it otherwise.

- Andy F.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Prent Rodgers"
<prentrodgers@...> wrote:
>
> This just in from the One Laptop Per Child project. Dr. Richard
> Boulanger sent this to me, since I contributed some sound samples to
> the project. There is more than samples being released, also new
> versions of Csound and add ons.
> ---------------------------------------------------
> The Berklee College of Music, Berklee Music Synthesis Alumni,
> The International Csound Community, Open Path Music and Avid
> Technology have opened up their sound libraries to the children of the
> world - and to YOU!!!
>
> This 8.5 GB collection is donated under the Creative Commons
> Attribution License which means you can freely create, compose, mix,
> remix, share, distribute and redistribute these samples and use them
> for any purpose as long as you clearly attribute the source.
>
> At last... free - thanks to all those who contributed.
>
> Spread the word. Share the sounds.....
>
>
> -doctorB
>
>
> Here are the links:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Sound_samples
>
> Here's the *Official* OLPC Press Release:
>
> http://csounds.com/OLPC_SoundSampleArchive.doc.zip
>
> While you are checking out the links and downloading the samples, you
> might want to check out all the cool CsoundXO stuff that has been
> happening on the OLPC XO laptop:
>
> Over these past two months the CsoundXO Developers - especially John
> ffitch, Victor Lazzarini, Andres Cabrera, Jacob Joaquin, Cesare
> Marilungo, and Greg Thompson have really pushed out some new and
> important tools and activities for the XO. Links to some of these are
> below.
>
> A most important result of this development initiative is the fact
> that John and Victor got the CsoundXO subset of Csound5 to be FULLY
> SYNCHRONIZED and TOTALLY COMPATIBLE with the current release of
> Public Csound (and automated the process so that they will ALWAYS be
> in sync!) and Andres has a CsoundXO manual that is fully synchronized
> as well!!!!!
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Csound
> + Links to the Csound Activities, the new RPM!, the developer tools
> (by Victor), and the toots.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Csndsugui
> + Victor Lazzarini's AMAZING new GUI TOOLKIT for Csound Activity
> Development on the XO
> + Victor has developed a wonderful small collection of tutorial
> activities with sliders and buttons controlling CsoundXO
> - waves - a simple additive synth
> - synth - a subtractive synth with USB keyboard control
> - playfiles - an 8 track remixer with record capability
> - GMplayer - an iterface and instrument for loading and playing any GM
> file with Csound - using the Avid/M-Audio donated Sample Set
>
> http://www.thumbuki.com/20080317/step-and-funny-talk-for-the-olpc.html
> + Jacob Joaquin's new Activities developed with Victor's Toolkit and
> his blog and tutorials about the process.
>
> * coming soon (within the next two weeks) by Greg Thompson
>
>
> - CsoundEditor/Launcher - with virtual MIDI piano keyboard and
> CsoundXO manual integrations
> + including ALL the Boulanger Tutorials - TOOTS, Csound Book Chapter
> 1, Mastering Csound, Scanned Synthesis
> + including thousands of instruments and models from The Csound
> Catalog plus dozens of compositions and MIDI instruments,
>
> - CsoundRemixer - for jamming with the OLPCsound Sample Archive (and
> adding Csound FX instruments)
>
> - GMPlayAlong - for playing general MIDI files with Csound and
> visualizing the tracks on the ascii keyboard, virtual piano keyboard
> and pianoroll
>
> - PlayAlong Keyboard - for playing Csound Instruments from a USB
> and/or Virtual Keyboard: GMplayer, Sampler, SynthExplorer (all sorts
> of synths)
>
> * coming soon (within the next two weeks) by Cesare Marilungo
>
> - Image2Sound - for the sonification of pictures and drawings from the
> Journal and other OLPC Activities using his new image opcode collection.
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:CSound - some thoughts on Csound for
> press and others
>
> Here are the links to the XO Bundled Sound Activities
> (including especially the Csound Masterpiece by Jean Piché and Company
> - TamTam Mini, TamTam Jam, TamTam Edit, and the SynthLab)
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tamtam - all Csound - AMAZING - INTUITIVE -
> POWERFUL - and for Children!
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pippy (Some Csound)
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Memorize (Some Csound)
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure (Making the Csound connection now)
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Record (capturing audio for Csound and
> Photos for Image2Csound conversion - thanks to Cesare Marilungo's new
> Opcodes!)
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Draw (paint program which with Image2Csound
> and Cesare's opcodes - can now be transformed to audio.)
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Prent Rodgers
>

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Graham Breed <gbreed@...> wrote:
>
> How well are they going to work microtonally? I heard they
> were based on Sound Fonts. Some ways to get them working in
> Csound bypass the natural free-pitch support.
>
>
> Graham
>

Graham,
The samples are usable by Csound in a number of ways. I gave up on
sound font support, and still use a more basic Csound opcode, loscil,
that permits setting the frequency more directly.

The following code uses the loscil opcode to load a two channel
waveform into a3 & a4. 1 is the amplitude, later altered with an
envelope; kcps2 is the frequency of the note; ifno is the number of
the function table containing the sample waveform from the score file;
ibascps is the frequency at which the sample was recorded.

a3,a4 loscil 1, kcps2, ifno, ibascps; stereo sample with looping

In the score file, I load all the samples required for the piece like
this:

f9 0 0 1 "McGill/Partition E/TUBA/TUBA C2.aif" 0 4 0

This loads a waveform file into a function table called 9. For every
sample there needs to be a function table. I have a set of table
lookup steps that ensure I use the right sample for each note (or the
wrong one for effect).

The samples have to be either .aif or .wav form to be loaded by
Csound. This makes everything I record available as a sample,
including all the waveforms in the OLPC library.

Prent Rodgers

Prent Rodgers wrote:

> The samples have to be either .aif or .wav form to be loaded by
> Csound. This makes everything I record available as a sample,
> including all the waveforms in the OLPC library.

In that case this is resoundingly good news! I was worried they'd use Fluid opcodes that are friendly to the non-microtonalist. If that isn't the case we have exactly the set of instruments people asked for to work with Csound. So anybody who wants Csound's tuning flexibility and is happy with text-based scores can go straight into making music.

Graham