Miao Beat audition samples — provenance checked 2026-10-22
These assets have not received human listening approval.

PIANO — Upright Piano KW small, FreePats, version 2019-07-03.
Recorded by Gonzalo and Roberto, January 2017, from a Kawai upright piano.
License: CC0 1.0 Universal (full text: ./CC0-1.0.txt).
Official source: https://freepats.zenvoid.org/Piano/acoustic-grand-piano.html
Five source anchors, compressed to MP3; -3 dB gain; one-shot playback.
The three low anchors were originally loop-prepared. Their 600 ms terminal
fade follows the source SFZ release setting; no infinite sustain is implied.

GUITAR — Spanish classical guitar, FreePats, version 2019-06-18.
Recorded in 2008, created by Roberto for FreePats.
License: CC0 1.0 Universal (full text: ./CC0-1.0.txt).
Official source: https://freepats.zenvoid.org/Guitar/acoustic-guitar.html
Seven anchors, compressed to MP3; -3 dB gain; original natural decay retained.

MARIMBA — University of Iowa Musical Instrument Samples, yarn mallets, mf.
Performed by Andrew Thierauf, recorded March 20, 2013; technicians Daniel
Frantz and Will Huff. MIS project created by Lawrence Fritts.
Official permission: "may be downloaded and used for any projects, without restrictions."
https://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html
Recording details: https://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/Mismarimba.html
This is the institution's own permission statement, not a CC0 license.
Thirteen notes cut from official chromatic-sequence recordings; beginning
noise removed with 5 ms attack padding; available tails retained; -3 dB gain;
44.1 kHz stereo MP3. No source room/recording claims are changed.

DRUM KIT — Virtuosity Drums, Versilian Studios and Karoryfer Samples.
Performed by Austin McMahon, recorded at Virtuosity Musical Instruments,
Boston. Commit 9f04cf9a734527edfbb0a4eee1f674e45bbf71bc.
License: CC0 1.0 Universal (full text: ./CC0-1.0.txt).
https://github.com/sfzinstruments/virtuosity_drums
Eight selected single hits: kick, snare, closed/open hi-hat, low/high tom,
crash, ride. One microphone signal per hit, leading padding removed,
-3 dB gain, original full available decay retained; 44.1 kHz MP3.

All groups use libmp3lame VBR quality 2 and retain source channel counts.
A 10 ms fade removes file-boundary discontinuities except the piano release
noted above. No whole-song loops, third-party CDN soundfonts, or synthesized
replacement sounds are included in these sample folders.