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Instrument sounds

The piano, guitars, bass and the fifteen orchestral instruments you can play for free on this site use the recorded samples of tonejs-instruments by Nicholas Brosowsky (github.com/nbrosowsky/tonejs-instruments). The samples come from a variety of public domain sources and were edited for consistency by the author (trimming, fades, levels, noise reduction). They are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. GOONS Studio plays them as they are, pitched to the nearest key.

InstrumentSample folder
Pianopiano
Acoustic, electric and nylon guitarguitar-acoustic, guitar-electric, guitar-nylon
Electric bassbass-electric
Violinviolin
Cellocello
Double Basscontrabass
Fluteflute
Clarinetclarinet
Saxophonesaxophone
Bassoonbassoon
Trumpettrumpet
French Hornfrench-horn
Trombonetrombone
Tubatuba
Harpharp
Organorgan
Harmoniumharmonium
Xylophonexylophone

The online accordion uses thirteen of the harmonium samples above (harmonium), looped and layered to make its registers, under the same Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. The online ukulele plays eighteen of the nylon guitar samples (guitar-nylon) in the ukulele range, under the same licence.

The recorded instruments of the world music collection come from the Versilian Community Sample Library (VCSL) by Versilian Studios (github.com/sgossner/VCSL), released into the public domain under CC0 1.0. GOONS Studio trims them, sets their levels and packs each instrument into a single sound file.

InstrumentVCSL folders
Online CajónIdiophones/Struck Idiophones/Cajon, Shaker, Small, Claps, Cowbells, Vibraslap
Online CongasMembranophones/Struck Membranophones/Conga, Claves, Cowbells, Guiro
Online MbiraIdiophones/Plucked Idiophones/Mbira dzaVadzimu Nyamaropa, Zimbabwe, Low B, Shaker, Large
Online BongosMembranophones/Struck Membranophones/Bongos, Conga, Claves, Cowbells, Guiro
Online BendirMembranophones/Struck Membranophones/Frame Drum, Idiophones/Struck Idiophones/Claps
Online TaikoMembranophones/Struck Membranophones/Bass Drum 2, Tom 1, Snare Drum, Rope Tension, Idiophones/Struck Idiophones/Brake Drum

The ten hip-hop kits of the DrumPad (folder GOONS Hip-Hop Kits: Trap Sub, Drill Slide, Phonk Cowbell, Boom Bap Dust, Jazz Hop, Lo-Fi Tape, G-Funk Bounce, Electro 82, Cloud Rap, Memphis 90s) are made by GOONS Studio. Kicks, 808 basses, snares, claps, hats, cowbells, keys and effects are synthesized from scratch. The acoustic hits of Boom Bap Dust, Jazz Hop and Lo-Fi Tape start from the drum samples shipped with Sonic Pi, Freesound recordings released under CC0 1.0, run through a 12-bit sampler, tape or saturation chain.

Drum machines and acoustic drums

The Drum Machines collection holds four vintage drum machines (folders Funk Box 71, Preset Rhythm 78, Studio Drum 82, Digital Drum 86) published in the public domain by oramics/sampled, and Analog Mini, the uzu-drumkit by Mot4i, Switch Angel and Ludens, released into the public domain under the Unlicense. Sounds are unchanged; files are renamed.

The Acoustic Drums collection holds the AVL Drumkits by Glen MacArthur (bandshed.net/avldrumkits), CC BY-SA 3.0 with the author's exception for music made with them (the full notice ships in the folder), and the Pearl Master Studio Pack 1 by enoe on Freesound, CC BY 3.0. Samples are unmodified, renamed without drum and cymbal brand names (Black and Red kits, Session kit).

Thirteen DrumPad kits come with a one-bar groove played by a real drummer, taken from the Groove MIDI Dataset (Google Magenta, CC BY 4.0), quantized to 16 steps. Each kit names its source file.

Keys, bass, strings, synths and voices

The Keys & Mallets, Bass & Guitar, Strings & Brass and Synths & Voices collections (41 instruments, one note every minor third) are rendered note by note from the Fluid (R3) General MIDI SoundFont by Frank Wen and contributors, released under the MIT licence, without reverb or chorus.

Tracks

The tracks of the library, the Scratch app and DJ Master Pro are free music whose licence was checked on its source page. CC0 tracks are in the public domain; Creative Commons Attribution tracks are credited below. Files are re-encoded at 192 kbps when needed, with no other change.

Acapellas

Beat Scene

Funk & Soul

Hip-Hop Beats

Lo-Fi Hip-Hop

Sheet music

The classical pieces of the free piano sheet music are read from public domain editions, most of them typeset by the volunteers of the Mutopia Project; each song page names its source, the edition and the Mutopia number. Easy versions and arrangements are by GOONS Studio. Traditional songs use the tunes as they are sung today.

  • Chopin, Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2: read on the French first edition (Paris, M. Schlesinger) in First Editions of Fryderyk Chopin's Music, The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, CC BY 4.0.
  • Pachelbel, Canon in D: read on the Mutopia Project edition of the Canon per 3 Violini e Basso, typeset by Michael Fischer v. Mollard, CC BY 4.0.
  • Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata: read on the Durand edition of 1915 edited by Paul Dukas (public domain), in the digital edition encoded by Craig Stuart Sapp.

Software

Scores are drawn with abcjs (MIT licence) from ABC notation. Interface fonts: Inter and JetBrains Mono (SIL Open Font Licence). Illustrations of the sheet music pages are generated for GOONS Studio.

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