Csound can use high quality samples in the following ways:

1. The fluid opcodes encapsulate the Fluidsynth soundfount 2 player as a set of easy to use Csound opcodes.

2. The sfont opcodes make it possible to use the samples only (no key mappings or effects) from soundfonts in Csound.

3. Csound has lower-level building blocks for making your own samplers from scratch using soundfiles, function tables, phasors, and so on.

4. Csound (not the SourceForge installers, but built from sources) can host VST plugins, and there are excellent professional sample players available as VST plugins.

I have used all of these approaches. I find approach 1 and approach 3 to be the most useful. I have a feeling that approach 4 would lead to the highest-quality results if I was willing to buy a commercial sampling plugin. But the fluid opcodes work pretty well.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Julien Claassen 
>Sent: Mar 6, 2008 4:46 AM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Newbie in need of instruments
>
>Hi!
>  Had a look at
>http://www.csounds.com
>  yet? they also have a collection of instruments. I know, that there are some 
>nice once.
>  But if you're in need of some natural instruments, csound alone might not be 
>the only way you want to go. If you use linux, have a look at linuxsampler
>http://www.linuxsampler.org
>  It reads gigastudio 2 samples. And probably take a look at fluidsynth
>http://www.fluidsynth.org
>  It reads soundfonts. That way you might be able to use some of your old 
>libraries.
>  Another look for the linux-side of things might be:
>http://linux-sound.org
>or
>http://www.linuxaudio.org
>  these sites list linux-apps and linux-sound.org also has a section on 
>csound-material, which might be helpful.
>  Kindest regards
>        Julien
>
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