> There are many, many good, and completely free gig files. Look at > Worra's Place for the best overall set I know of: > > http://www.worrasplace.com > > Note the links to subsections are just below the ad at the top. (Not > everyone finds them) > > Take care, > Mark Thanks.. yes I had seen that page before and there _do_ seem to be a few more files now. It worries me that they are generally all so small in size though: smaller than soundfonts some of them. Also there does not seem to be much in the way of proper orchestral sounds.. the woodwind section is not up to much and there is no strings section. The sound files at the University of Iowa are massive: 40-60MB per instrument. Could build up some really nice files from them! I think perhaps the easiest way would be to write them as soundfonts and then get some program to convert them.. James