Simon Troup wrote:
I also don't agree that the samples are that much better than the
soundfont.
I'm totally aghast - to me it's as plain as a slap in the face,
they're hugely better. Can you honestly listen to Hiro or Jaris
recording and tell me the SoundFont sounds better than that?
Actually - maybe it's my SoundFont that has something wrong with it?
But honestly, it sucks so badly I'm amazed anyone would think there
was anything lkess than a royal mile between them.
Since there is no single monolithic identifiable ideal tone for any
single instrument, there is always bound to be disagreement about the
tonal quality of any sound, sampled or real.
Tyler was wonderful in working on a file of mine to try to show me what
GPO could do. He returned the file to me and I played it and was less
than impressed. He also sent me an MP3 file of his playback to ensure
that I was hearing what he was hearing. I was still less than
impressed. Playing the same thing through the soundfont sounded very
good to me.
The trombone sounds like a french horn to my ears. Tyler likes that
tone from a trombone, I don't. I find the trombone tone in the
soundfont to be much more the trombone tone I like. With reverb and
without reverb, I still don't care for the GPO trombone tone.
There's nothing wrong with me for liking the soundfont trombone better,
and there's nothing wrong with Tyler preferring the GPO trombone tone.
Different strokes for different folks. That's alright.
I don't believe I have said that I am aghast that anybody could prefer
the GPO sounds, I have no problem with anybody who likes them.
Wasn't Darcy already complaining about the sampled drum(stick) sounds in
the forthcoming Jazz/BigBand set? The people who sampled those drum
sounds obviously thought they were good sounds. At least I think it's
safe to assume that Gary Garritan is only sampling sounds he thinks are
the best. Maybe that's not a safe assumption, but nothing I've seen or
heard about him would make me think otherwise.
Your soundfont is probably fine, and my GPO samples are fine. We just
prefer different sounds. That the sounds I prefer came as an adjunct to
a much more robust upgrade and the sounds you prefer came as the major
aspect of this upgrade is just a petty point I have to get over.
It's like trying to decide which trumpet player's tone is the best:
Maurice Andre, Wynton Marsalis, Louis Armstong, Al Hirt, Timofey
Dokshutzer (I probably butchered the poor guy's name), Miles Davis,
Bubba Miley, Cootie Williams, and on and on. Until some mega-sample set
comes out with a bazillion different tones for each instrument, not
everybody will agree that any given sample set contains the best sounds.
I don't even like the sampled Steinway in the GPO, vastly preferring the
piano tone of the soundfont or of my Kurzweil PC2r module.
And perhaps we all agree there's a royal mile between them -- it's just
which is a royal mile above the other that's in dispute.
I'm just glad that the soundfont (and the ability to point to ANY
soundfont I want to, while the VST users are severely limited as to
which sample sets they can use) capability is still there in Finale2006.
--
David H. Bailey
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