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So, can anyone provide me with a list of good soundfont sites? Ok, not good, but any soundfont sites are accepted 
Because I've found some googling, but I wonder what you have in your bookmarks.
Full stop.
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08-10-2006 04:57 |
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Scurf
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Er... why would use sound fonts when you have wavs, aiff and other stuff 
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31-10-2006 15:57 |
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03-11-2006 22:34 |
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Surora23
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Er... why would use sound fonts when you have wavs, aiff and other stuff
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you apparently dont know what a sound font is then...
for those who dont... theyre specific instruments recorded, and made into a file in which can be played at different notes...
so in a sense you et to play these instruments... the only downfall to this is that its hard to find relaly good ones, and even then sometimes they sound bad...
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04-11-2006 00:52 |
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oursvince
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05-11-2006 21:41 |
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Scurf
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Originally posted by Scurf
Er... why would use sound fonts when you have wavs, aiff and other stuff
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you apparently dont know what a sound font is then...
for those who dont... theyre specific instruments recorded, and made into a file in which can be played at different notes...
so in a sense you et to play these instruments... the only downfall to this is that its hard to find relaly good ones, and even then sometimes they sound bad... |
Yes yes but can`t you do that with waws and other stuff
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05-11-2006 22:57 |
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Surora23
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Originally posted by Scurf
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Originally posted by Surora23
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Originally posted by Scurf
Er... why would use sound fonts when you have wavs, aiff and other stuff
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you apparently dont know what a sound font is then...
for those who dont... theyre specific instruments recorded, and made into a file in which can be played at different notes...
so in a sense you et to play these instruments... the only downfall to this is that its hard to find relaly good ones, and even then sometimes they sound bad... |
Yes yes but can`t you do that with waws and other stuff
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waws?
wavs? well yea you can play waves... but a wav sample has a end to the sample.. you can play soundfonts liek you can vsti's... its all midi.. rather than just sampling...
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06-11-2006 06:21 |
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cynik
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| Yes yes but can`t you do that with waws and other stuff Huh Huh |
theres a huge difference in playing one sample accross octaves to playing a sound font in which every key has a sample of it's own
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06-11-2006 08:54 |
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how accurate are these?
i mean in terms of reproducing subtle nuances, yknow like flute trills for example
This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by utter muppet: 06-11-2006 13:21.
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06-11-2006 13:15 |
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Scurf
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Originally posted by Surora23
waws?
wavs? well yea you can play waves... but a wav sample has a end to the sample.. you can play soundfonts liek you can vsti's... its all midi.. rather than just sampling... |
Waws
Never used before SoundFonts but from what you wrote it seems it is worth to use it 
Will try...
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06-11-2006 13:24 |
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gls
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| but a wav sample has a end to the sample.. you can play soundfonts liek you can vsti's... its all midi.. rather than just sampling... |
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| theres a huge difference in playing one sample accross octaves to playing a sound font in which every key has a sample of it's own |
Have neither of you heard of looping or multisampling? A soundfont is basically the same as a bunch of multisampled and looped wavs.
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| SoundFont technology is akin to software sampling. A SoundFont file contains one or more banks of sampled audio data, which can be re-synthesized at different pitches and dynamic levels. Each sample in a bank is associated with a particular range of pitches and dynamics. Generally speaking, the quality of a SoundFont bank is a function of the quality of the digital samples and the intelligent association of samples with their appropriate pitch ranges. Quality is also dependent on the number of samples taken for a given range of pitches. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundFont
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampler_%28...l_instrument%29
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07-11-2006 13:28 |
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cynik
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Originally posted by gls
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| but a wav sample has a end to the sample.. you can play soundfonts liek you can vsti's... its all midi.. rather than just sampling... |
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| theres a huge difference in playing one sample accross octaves to playing a sound font in which every key has a sample of it's own |
Have neither of you heard of looping or multisampling? A soundfont is basically the same as a bunch of multisampled and looped wavs.
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er..ok ??
duh. who are you correcting here?
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07-11-2006 13:30 |
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gls
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Originally posted by cynik
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Originally posted by gls
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| but a wav sample has a end to the sample.. you can play soundfonts liek you can vsti's... its all midi.. rather than just sampling... |
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| theres a huge difference in playing one sample accross octaves to playing a sound font in which every key has a sample of it's own |
Have neither of you heard of looping or multisampling? A soundfont is basically the same as a bunch of multisampled and looped wavs.
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er..ok ??
duh. who are you correcting here? |
Both of you, I couldn't be bothered saying it twice.
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07-11-2006 13:31 |
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Scurf
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Originally posted by gls
Have neither of you heard of looping or multisampling? A soundfont is basically the same as a bunch of multisampled and looped wavs.
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Er... I think you havent understodd the general talk. Me and Surora23 were talking about multisampling, but I think that Surora pointed out that using SoundFonts you don`t have to bother with multisampling... SoundFonts have rather great posibility...
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07-11-2006 13:51 |
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gls
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Originally posted by Scurf
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Originally posted by gls
Have neither of you heard of looping or multisampling? A soundfont is basically the same as a bunch of multisampled and looped wavs.
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Er... I think you havent understodd the general talk. Me and Surora23 were talking about multisampling, but I think that Surora pointed out that using SoundFonts you don`t have to bother with multisampling... SoundFonts have rather great posibility... |
I think I understood it ok. Surura said "a wav sample has a end to the sample", which is true but so does a soundfont, someone wasn't playing the sound for infinity, its just a sampled and looped sound.. and not all of them are looped either you can get plenty of drum hits etc. which stop when they get to the end of the sampled sound. The only reason you don't have to bother with multi sampling and looping is because its already been done for you with a soundfont, and imho it cannot have "rather great possibilities" compared to properly multi sampled and looped wavs because they're essentially the same thing.
Maybe I'm wrong though, its been known before, perhaps someone could explain the difference to me.. I do know its not all midi though.
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