Them wrote: > tim hall wrote: > >> Over half of the soundfonts I've downloaded either don't work, sound >> plain awful or consist of just one halfway decent sound, the palette >> I'm looking for is quite limited, basically a decent fake orchestra >> that will run comfortably in 192M RAM, with possibly some classic >> keyboards (hammond, farfisa, vox, rhodes, wurly, mellotron type >> stuff). i.e. the stuff that's hard to synthesise. > > > If you find some decent Mellotron sounds, I'd be interested in hearing > about it. I've got a VST plugin with samples from a real Mellotron, but > I've yet to get it working using libfst or vstserver. I may just end up > making my own samples of the samples (which are, after all, early analog > samples of real instruments) and using them as soundfonts or something > along those lines. Of course, I can't redistribute them, since the > samples from GMedia are copyrighted. > If you're up for trying something new (I'm not a sound Font fan) you can get a free Mellotron gig file at http:www.worrasplace.com (Look under 'Oldies'.) and run it under QSampler, the GUI for LinuxSampler. http://www.rncbc.org/ls/ (Build everything on Rui's LS page if you're interested in trying any of this out.) LS is all very much development software, and there are a lot of changes going on right now so it may be broken, but maybe you'll get lucky. LS is a Jack application and gerneally runs very well for me on most gig files. There are still a few it really dies on but I cannot get the developers to pay attention to those yet. I use a different, for money, Mellotron gig file under QSampler and GSt, but this free one is certain OK when buried in the right mix. Good luck! - Mark
