Some articulated SFZ files from Japanese maker Unreal Instruments. Made for the Sforzando player, they might make an interesting translation, conversion exercise. I could not find any licensing terms, they include nice professional grade English and Japanese. user manuals. (Originally found in this Plogue list of paid and free instruments.)
Anyone with a Keytar would definitely want to check out the guitar sounds, there is a Standard and Metal version. Works fine with the free Sforzando player. These instruments may require more hardware than a Pi can supply, perhaps a multi gig Pi 4 could do.
Standard Guitar Sample (more tricky to play than guitar hero) uses some 2400 flac samples
Here is the control panel you get (instead of a GUI) on the free player, note the 13 CC channel assignments to panel controls, that looks easy to adapt to a headless translation scheme for some future Sfizz ?, the other 7 controls might be more tricky to manage.
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Brief descriptions of the different Standard Guitar modes, articulation is done with designated non playing keyboard keys, except two modes where velocity changes the play style.
The manual describes the 25 different articulation keyboard keys (KSOP), VSOP represents velocity articulation, tables indicate 15 different styles are mapped to velocity.
Wow good job playing the ModSynth_R1.sf2, it must be like reliving your first synthesizer knob twiddling experience. I imagine one could drop in more complex waveforms into that framework (if you can live with bloating the current 9.18k file size)
DecentSampler has about 16 free SFZ files, mostly novelty and toy instruments.
As seen in sforzando player:
Interestingly the Box harp has only Volume and Pan Controls.
While the Korg littleBits Synth Kit has 6 additional controls for Filter and Amp EG envelope. (makes the simple Square or Sawtooth a bit more interesting)
(Mandolin_Guitarophone_SFZ is the fattest of the ones I looked at: 730Mb compressed)
The goalie is sighted and yells directions to his team, the referee bangs on the left and right goal supports for location. (I trust you can right-click save the .wav files)
I tried enabling zram ZRAM swap alternative and it lasted a little longer, but still oomed after a few minutes of playing. And It certainly wasn’t happy if my foot was on the sustain.
If you have insufficient memory then it will fail. What may be desirable is a way to limit the memory requirements, e.g. limit sample size based on available memory.
Sometimes buffering resolves temporary shortage of resource but if the system is persistently starved of resource it will fail. (Think of audio buffers in jack / alsa.)
I would expect swap to be rather detrimental to performance and defo bad for flash storage!
