MTEC-397 Status Report #1

Date: 9/27/2002

To: Steven Ward

From: Robert C. Radcliffe

RE: Early Patches

What is Early Patches?

Early Patches is a SoundFont collection (manually created and tweaked) that includes the original raw audio files. These are pre-Renaissance musical instruments, many still in use in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
You can use the HTML documentation on the CD-ROM for further information. You can also audition the various samples.
Initially, I am focusing on drum sounds:

Bendir (Frame Drum)
Davul (Bass Drum)
Kleine Trommel (Small Drum)
Pauke (Kettle Drum)
Riq (Tambourine)
Snare Drum (with and without snares)
Syrien (Frame Drum)
Tar (Frame Drum)
Tombak, Dumbek or Zarb (Tube Drum)
Udo or Darabouka (Ceramic Hand Drum)

Test Files

There are 0 or more .WAV files for each "hit type" at each "velocity" from fff down to ppp. For starters I will investigate the Bendir Slap, which has the widest dynamic range. # is the total number of samples per type and dif is the total number of different velocities per type.

Folder	FileName	Type	fff	ff	f	mf	p	pp	ppp	roll	#	dif

Bendir	Bass	Bass			1	2	1	2	3		9	5
Bendir	Rim	Rim		1	1	1	1	1	1		6	6
Bendir	RimL	RimLeft		2			2				4	2
Bendir	RimR	RimRight			2			2			4	2
Bendir	Slap	Slap	3	1	1	1	1	3	1		11	7
Bendir		Total									34	22

Davul	Center	Center		1	1	1	1	1			5	5
Davul	CenterLt	CenterLeft			1						1	1
Davul	CenterRt	CenterRight			1						1	1
Davul	CenterSt	CenterStereo			1						1	1
Davul	CenterSnare	CenterSnare		1	1	1					3	3
Davul	Excenter	Excenter			1	1	1				3	3
Davul	ExcenterLt	ExcenterLeft			1						1	1
Davul	ExcenterRt	ExcenterRight			1						1	1
Davul	ExcenterSt	ExcenterStereo			1						1	1
Davul	Rand	Rim		1	2	1	1	1			6	5
Davul	Zweig	Twig1			3	1	1	1			6	4
Davul	Zweig2	Twig2			3		1				4	2
Davul		Total									33	28

Kleine Trommel	Mitte	Center		1	3	1	1	1			7	5
Kleine Trommel	Rand	Rim			3	1	1	1			6	4
Kleine Trommel	Roll	Roll								3	3	1
Kleine Trommel		Total									16	10

Pauke	Medium	Medium			2						2	1
Pauke	Weich	Soft			2						2	1
Pauke		Total									4	2

Riq	Cent	Center						2	1		3	2
Riq	Drop	Drop				3	3				6	2
Riq	Rim	Rim			3	1	4	1			9	4
Riq	Roll	Roll								7	7	1
Riq	Slap	Slap		3	1	1	3				8	4
Riq	Zil	Jingle1			3	1	1	3	1		9	5
Riq	Zil2	Jingle2				5	1	3			9	3
Riq		Total									51	21

Snare	Snare	Snare		1	3	1	3	1			9	5
Snare	Nosnare	Nosnare		1	3	1	3	1			9	5
Snare	Roll	Roll								1	1	1
Snare		Total									19	11

Syrien	Bass	Bass		4	2	1	3	1	1		12	6
Syrien	RimL	RimLeft		3	1	3	1	1			9	5
Syrien	RimR	RimRight			3	1	3	1			8	4
Syrien	Slp1	Slap1		3	1	3	1	1			9	5
Syrien	Slp2	Slap2		3	1	1	3	1			9	5
Syrien		Total									47	25

Tar	Bab1	Bab			1	1	1	1			4	4
Tar	Bas1	Bass				2		2			4	2
Tar	Rim	Rim			1	1	1	1			4	4
Tar	RimL	RimLeft			2		2				4	2
Tar	RimR	RimRight					3	3	1		7	3
Tar	Slp1	Slap		3	1	1	1	1	3		10	6
Tar		Total									33	21

Tombak	Bass	Bass		1	3	1	3	1	1		10	6
Tombak	Rim	Rim			3	3	1	3	1		11	5
Tombak	Slap	Slap		1	3	1	3	1	1		10	6
Tombak		Total									31	17

Udo	Bab	Bab			3	1	3				7	3
Udo	RimL	RimLeft			3	1	3	1			8	4
Udo	RimR	RimRight		3	1	1	3	1			9	5
Udo	Slap	Slap		3	2	1	1	2			9	5
Udo	Slpdr	Slpdr		1	1		1	1			4	4
Udo		Total									37	21

Further Work

In my next report, I will describe how to use the SF2comp SoundFont 2 compiler/decompiler to decompile an .sf2 file into a .WAV sample file and a .TXT description file and vice versa.

Bibliography

CD-ROM:

Audio Tracks: 15 examples using the SoundFonts.
HTML Documentation: start.htm.

Web Site: http://www.sumerauer.de/ pretty much duplicates what’s on the CD-ROM.