Sounds impressive!
Now, here is my problem: I am on a Mac. Therefor I have no means to open
soundfonts compressed in the V1 format of sfArk (V2 is fine).
Furthermore there is to my knowledge no tool on the Mac to open a
soundfont and replace certain patches, nor is it possible to use several
soundfonts at the same time (correct me if I am wrong).
All I really want to do is use the Finale soundfont, but replace certain
patches, especially the dreadfully out of tune violin, with some better
ones. If someone can give me instructions on how to do this, please go
ahead.
Johannes
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz schrieb:
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
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