At 09:16 PM 5/24/05 -0500, Williams, Jim wrote: >Would you please search your memory bank for the location of this soundfont...? >It's one of the best I've ever heard.
Jim, It isn't a single soundfont. There are about 30 different individual soundfonts in that rendering ... as I said, I mix & match, which is why I wanted to be able to break up the samples in GPO -- some sound good to me, some don't. In any case, none of the ones you're hearing in the Fields rendering are General Midi. Each one is separately assigned through a soundfont player. (I still use the discontinued LiveSynth Pro, but sfz+ and VSampler will do just as well.) That also gives me effectively unlimited instruments, as there's no 'voice packing' involved. The ensemble strings are "Cadenza" (from the Hammersound free soundfont pages), the solos are Langton, some of the woodwinds are Florestan, etc. The gong was made by a guy on the Sonar users group, and some of the others were glommed together by me from the Iowa samples (http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html). Many fonts came with various software, but these are largely pop samples I don't use, except for the drumkits, which sound lots better than the 'classical' sampled sets. Dennis > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dennis Bathory-Kitsz > At 07:04 PM 5/24/05 -0400, Christopher Smith wrote: > >Admittedly, the guy who did this used the best patches from several > >different libraries, and he had the ears, money, and the time to choose > >wisely and probably had a bunch of equipment besides, but Jim's point > >stands: that is, you will find nothing better than GPO for the price, > and > >it integrates reasonably well with Finale to make a reasonable demo > that > >beats the pants off Finale's internal sounds. > > Although $140 is pretty good, it would be better if the samples were > easily > extracted into more generic software. I wouldn't get caught up in the > GPO > hype, because you can do all this with free soundfonts -- and not be > tied > to the software GPO apparently requires. Judicious use of samples, > including the complete and brilliantly recorded free set from Indiana (I > think it's Indiana) allows you to mix & match what you want. You'll need > studio software that takes one of the many soundfont players, or > somethng > like VSampler as your Midi device, but I find that more comforting than > a > specific set requiring a specific player. Maybe the GPO system does > allow > mix & match with my own samples, but I don't see that option in their > website FAQs. > > I did this demo for Matt Fields using free soundfonts: > http://www.umich.edu/~fields/ > (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~fields/audio/hubble92a.mp3) > > Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
