On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Lorenzo <lsutton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'de like to have some info/pointers on samples for classical music > (especially orchestra) in the situations when one has to provide a > 'virtual' performance. > > There are plenty of synths and stuff done with linux for linux, I myself > use puredata extensively for electionic music, but this is a different > dcenario. > > I've lately tried the linuxsampler stuff (qsanpler etc.), and was > impressed by the freebie gig piano on the website, but it looks the gig > format is quite dead at the moment, I wonder if there is a second hand > market for those, as it looks they were very popular before tascam > closed down the gigasampler thing. > For classical music, searching around it seems that currently SoundFonts > are the best supported form of samples on Linux. > I'm not necessarily talking of free stuff: quality sampling is a > laborious and skilful process and paying for good samples is fair enough > for a (digital) musician, so I'm talking about support: in fact it seems > that most packages are stand-alones for windows or mac. > > > Best regards, > Lorenzo. Yeah, it's disappointing for those of us that were long time GS users to see what happened Gst after it was bought by Tascam. Bad management along with a bad economy took its toll and the long time sampler died. Personally I would confuse the Gig format with the ability to use it. I expect that Kontakt will support it as long as that product or a successor survives. Kontakt is probably my next big purchase but I'm not active enough right now to warrant the cost. As for orchestral samples there are lots. Garritan makes a fairly low cost player that actually gets bundled with some other products. I got a copy with a recent Acid Pro update. In orchestral I don't think it makes sense to go cheap. If you have (very) deep pockets then look into the Vienna suites. Good luck, Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
