My basic request here is where to find good solo classical
instrumental samples... I'm willing to buy them, but free is good too
as long as they have a minimum quality level. I need a little more
guidance than "search the web for free sound fonts." I'm hoping to
draw on experience in sorting out the good from bad and useful from
non-useful, including among the commercial products.

To give more detail, I'm working on an experiment to add musical
expression to bare instrumental samples. For example, I might start
with a violin sample, then an expressive dynamic shape and a nice
vibrato. For this, I need a source of samples in a basic format I can
access, such as AIFF or WAV, and in particular I need a variety of
dynamics from piano to forte. The soft samples should have a soft
attack, and the loud samples a strong attack. I need a variety of
attacks, because a realistic attack is a critical factor in
realism. (I read somewhere that we perceive the timbre of an
instrument as mostly to do with its attack, and much less the
sustained portion of the note.)

I own a set of solo string samples in WAV format, called "Pro Samples
Volume 41 Solo Strings". These are decent but only go up to
mezzo-forte, not forte (I'm not sure why).

I poked around online for sample sets, but I noticed that the trend is
to sell "virtual instruments" that handle all the processing
themselves. I just need bare wav.

I am aware that free samples exist, which is good, but I need a
certain minimum quality level and some free samples don't meet that.

So I would like recommendations where to look for samples that include
a variety of dynamics and attacks, and come in plain aiff or wav.


Thanks,
Mike



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may be a good starting point

==John ff
> My basic request here is where to find good solo classical
> instrumental samples... I'm willing to buy them, but free is good too
> as long as they have a minimum quality level. I need a little more
> guidance than "search the web for free sound fonts." I'm hoping to
> draw on experience in sorting out the good from bad and useful from
> non-useful, including among the commercial products.
>
> To give more detail, I'm working on an experiment to add musical
> expression to bare instrumental samples. For example, I might start
> with a violin sample, then an expressive dynamic shape and a nice
> vibrato. For this, I need a source of samples in a basic format I can
> access, such as AIFF or WAV, and in particular I need a variety of
> dynamics from piano to forte. The soft samples should have a soft
> attack, and the loud samples a strong attack. I need a variety of
> attacks, because a realistic attack is a critical factor in
> realism. (I read somewhere that we perceive the timbre of an
> instrument as mostly to do with its attack, and much less the
> sustained portion of the note.)
>
> I own a set of solo string samples in WAV format, called "Pro Samples
> Volume 41 Solo Strings". These are decent but only go up to
> mezzo-forte, not forte (I'm not sure why).
>
> I poked around online for sample sets, but I noticed that the trend is
> to sell "virtual instruments" that handle all the processing
> themselves. I just need bare wav.
>
> I am aware that free samples exist, which is good, but I need a
> certain minimum quality level and some free samples don't meet that.
>
> So I would like recommendations where to look for samples that include
> a variety of dynamics and attacks, and come in plain aiff or wav.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
>
> Send bugs reports to this list.
> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe
> csound"
>
>
>




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