ORIC Sample Batches
SAMPLE GROUP 1
Sound Effects
These samples contain Spoken clips (taken from many sources such as Monty Python and The Simpsons) and various other non-instrumental sounds.
SAMPLE GROUP 2
Instrumentals
Instruments such as Tuba, Violin and Pocks can be found here. Also many synthesised sounds exist, although taking up no less memory!
OFFSETS and General Information
It must be noted that, although all samples were originally recorded at 10Khtz, this does not then mean that they all play at the same Base frequency. They are different, and the differences are shown in the column marked OFFSET. This value refers to the number of semitones that the Sample is Out by and is relative to the closest C within an octave.
Also, since the work that I have done on setting the Offsets was done "By Ear", there may be variances that I haven't foreseen.
The offsets of Complex Sounds such as Voices and Percussion Instruments cannot so easily be determined. Drums and Snares are especially difficult but whilst this may be considered missed information, it is unlikely that such samples will sound out of sync if used with any track. Since by their very nature, they are not Pitch dependant.
This is one big reason why they consume very little memory or can be halved (See next paragraph) many times over to sound similar to the original without losing clarity.
Halving is a facility with SED of Sound Tracker (CTRL D) that simply re-samples the sound in steps of two. By doing so, the Pitch will be doubled (Octave higher) but the size will be halved. Some Clarity loss may be experienced since half the values will be lost.
SAMPLE
Is the Filename of the sample on Disc.
TYPE/ GENRE
Is what group or category, the Sample falls in to.
NAME/ CONTAINS
Describes the Sound, the words spoken ("") or (if their is one) the name of the sound.
SIZE
Issues the Size of the Sample in Hexadecimal Bytes.
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