> This is quite good! Thank you, Liudas.
>Did you sample your own guitar? What is the process > involved? This was played directly off of a Finale score?! Finale's biggest contribution was in being able to assign instrument patches to notes using expressions programmed for playback. It makes the 'orchestration of the Here is the whole process from constructing the soundfont to producing the mp3: Nicely polished fingernail onto: Hannabach carbon strings attached to: Milburn spruce/brazilian guitar into: AKG C 1000S microphones into: Sony mini-disk deck through: Audiophile soundcard into: Creative Recorder and save as wav file. Cakewalk Express to edit the raw wav file into separate notes which are then imported into: Vienna Soundfont editor 2.3 to construct the soundfont which is then loaded into: SoundBlaster Live! soundcard and through which is played: Finale 2003 file with all of the 'orchestral' effects assigned as programmed note-attached expressions and then saved as a MIDI file which is imported into: Cakewalk Express to tweak the velocity (volume) and tempo and played into: Creative Recorder, saved as a wav file and then edited in: Cakewalk Express to add a little reverb and exported as a final wav file. Windows Media Player to convert the wav file to mp3. The samples are 44.1Hz three seconds each. I used 9 samples to span the range of the guitar. There are 9 'instruments': normal, tasto, ponticello, staccato, vibrato, ligato, soft, harmonics and gliss. The complete soundfont is rather large - 32MB. Richard > > I could not find a decent classical guitar soundfont so I made one a while > > ago. The plain version is free to download at: > > > > http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/Milburn-normal.SF2 (4.7MB) > > > > A demo that I made in Finale (and Sonar) using an expanded version is at: > > > > http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/Arabe-Demo.mp3 (2.3MB) > > > > > Soundfont quality, as with all sound issues, is in the ear of the > > > behearer (to borrow a phrase from Dewey Redman). > > > > I am interested to hear what the behearers here hear in the demo. > > > > Richard Yates _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
