On 14/05/13 7:38 AM, James Stone wrote:
What I would be interested in is:
1) Decent collections of samples (soundfonts or whatever) that are
professional standard (i.e. up to the quality of Roland/Korg/Emu)
covering a variety of "bread and butter" type sounds - orchestral,
keyboard, piano, synth. I am happy to pay for them - but if the overall
price goes over 100GBP, I think I am probably better off with the
hardware option..
Julien mentioned some great options that I'd second the recommendation
for (the Salamander Grand Piano and Drumkit, Sonatina for orchestral
sounds, setBfree for organs); I'd add the jRhodes3 soundfont and (to a
lesser extent) the MDA ePiano plugin to the list for electric piano.
I recently wrote up some thoughts on Sonatina after writing a short
track with it here:
http://wootangent.net/2013/04/ludum-dare-26-anti-minimalist-music-and-sampled-orchestras/
If you're looking for synth samples, then I'd playfully suggest that
you're Doing It Wrong :) If you want a good workhorse for typical synth
sounds, TAL NoiseMaker is a great option -- it's easy to program, sounds
great, and comes with a bunch of presets.
2) Thoughts - soundfonts vs. gigs vs. ? and what software to play them
in Linux? Any samplers that also have synthesis options - resonant
filters/ envelopes etc? I guess I know about things like linuxsampler
and fluidsynth, but are there any other more complex options?
Definitely check out petri-foo (standalone app) and samplv1 (standalone
and LV2 plugin) -- they both combine simple sampling with a more
complete synthesis engine (envelopes, LFOs, resonant filters, etc.).
Neither will let you create an instrument that uses a bunch of different
samples, but they're very useful for turning a plain sample in to a more
expressive instrument.
Thanks
Leigh
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