At 10:04 AM 7/12/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: >I'm no MIDI whiz, and have never worked with an expensive string >module, so I've never seen a synthesizer that had distinct violin, >viola and cello pizzicato patches. General MIDI doesn't have them, it >has only the one orchestral pizzicato patch.
There are many instrument-specific patches. I have solo, chamber, and orchestral pizzicati. If you want to see just some of what's available even as freeware, go to http://www.thesoundsite.net/ Soundfonts are a sample set with a body of use information built in, including envelopes and looping and range and velocity responses in order to create a realistic result. I use lots of soundfonts with LiveSynth Pro under Sonar. Here's a pretty good one, created in Finale, moved to Sonar, and using freeware soundfonts to create the output for a video: Stream (broadband): http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/mp3/stores-maintitle.m3u Download (3MB): http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/mp3/stores-maintitle.mp3 Score (94K): http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/pdf/stores-maintitle.pdf This isn't actually hard to do once you get the hang of it, especially if you need a good result for more than just demos. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
