Where to find quality audio samples for looping

Question

I am working on a musical instrument app for iPhone and need sample sounds that I can use for the various wind instruments. I'll be using OpenAL with looping, so a 1 second sample that is spot-on in-tune and without vibrato or other variation is essential.

My question is: Where can I find audio samples that are, or can be converted to .CAF format for looping play? Need these to be "realistic" sounding, not electronic sounding. Not looking for freebie, looking for professional quality.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Here's the command for converting to CAF format:

/usr/bin/afconvert -f caff -d LEI16@44100 myaudiofile.wav myaudiofile.caf;

Regarding finding samples, there's a ton out there. Search Google with "free audio samples".

Magazines like Sound On Sound and Computer Music will often have deals. Although sometimes you'll need to buy the magazine, or be a subscriber. They do lots of reviews of commercial sample CDs. Often these are quite reasonably priced (e.g. $50).

As with everything, the key is to check the license carefully to make sure it's full use and that you can redistribute in your app. That also applies to samples that you can download for free.