I listen to a lot of 60’s light rock, and other “elevator music”.
I always enjoy reading the blog posts! I’m impressed you made a looped sample set for SFZ Player, even it if didn’t work out in the end. And for sure Polyphone is not always 100% intuitive, although it seems to work well for making SFZs.
If you ever felt like writing a paragraph or two on this I would for sure link to it from my manual, or incorporate it directly.
Oh, the music sounds good, too!
Oh, it worked very well. I just didn’t use the samples in that one piece. I will likely find use for them in another.
Perhaps I’ll have a go at writing a brief explanation of what I’ve learned of Polyphone, if only to aid my memory in the future.
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I’ve typed up some notes on Github here, if they would be of any use.
Outstanding. Great dark mood ! 
Thank you for saying so.
Thanks! I’ll add a link.
have you considered putting your SFZ in the main github for that? There are quite a few there - and you don’t have to pay for hosting them!
Also - is the mellotron someone else’s samples? If so, do they have rights to redistribute?
The Mellotron is the Leisureland Samples. I only made the SFZ files and moved them into folders. The person who put them online (named “Taijiguy”) posted on KVR:
Another update. I’ve added another 5 sample sets to my Mellotron sample library for a total of 23 sample sets. As always, they are free to use, but cannot be used in any commercial, for profit software.
I tried to put a zip file with the Mellotron samples and the SFZ files I created up on Github, but it told me that file was too big to upload, so I’m going to have to work out some reasonable way to upload the files loose. That may take a little while, as my boss called and reminded me that vacations are for a finite length of time, and mine ends Monday morning.
Well, you can always work day job all day, then VCV all night!
You might submit a github issue over there asking how they do it. I suspect that the individual wave files are all separate, and submitted as a folder to git, rather than one huge zip. Over there you also see people who post just the SFZ, with instructions on how to get the waves (esp for cases where the wave author says “do not redistribute”
It turns out I can upload directories so long as they contain fewer than 100 files. That shouldn’t take terribly long.
how do you do it? Do you need to give the “owners” a pull request? I would think you can’t just jam files into their repo, but maybe that’s how it works? anyway, doesn’t “git push” send things in small enough increments?
I guess I should go over there and learn more about this 
I’m uploading it to my own account. I’ll go poke around their directory in a while and see if there’s a way to give them the URL to it.
oh, I see! makes sense.
It looks like “over there” each instrument is in its own repo. sfzinstruments · GitHub
The main people over there seem to be “the usual suspects” - there are a handful of people who maintain the spec, and lurk in the discord. I have found they are quite helpful. I’ll go over there and ask how stuff gets there.
Just submitted: how does one submit a new instument? · Issue #4 · sfzinstruments/mappings · GitHub
It’s loaded to my github here.
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nice! I added an overly long comment on Facebook.
Soo nice… <3
Thank you for saying so.