7 Jul
2004
7 Jul
'04
6:31 a.m.
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 10:10, Atte André Jensen wrote:
Being new to soundfonts I baically needed a decent
piano soundfont for
arranging stuff for my students, but after shopping around, I thought it
maybe could be taken a step further. So my question is: Are soundfonts
good enough for "real" music production? And where can I find nice ones
to download? I guess I'm looking for imitations of real instruments,
mostly piano, accoustic drums and bass, but expressive strings and other
orchestral sounds would also be nice.
You can find some nice sounds at
http://www.natural-studio.co.uk/sampled.htm
but you should read the copyright notice. The usage is not allowed in
commercial productions.
IMHO soundfonts are a serious alternative for "real" music productions. If you
don't use excessive filtering or modulation envelopes (and you won't like to
do that if you want natural sounds), the soundquality (nearly?) just depends
on the quality of the used samples. In general: I was usually satisfied with
soundfonts.
[...]
I also found alot of .sfArk sounds but it seems they
are in som kind of windows-only compressed format. I downloaded the
sfarkxtc_lx86.tar.gz but it complains "This file was created with sfArk
V1, and this program only handles sfArk V2+ files. Use sfArk instead."
on all the .sfArk-files I downloaded. Is there a linux utility that will
uncompress those files?
There seems to be a general problem with sfArk V1 files and unix-like
operating systems. Explaination:
http://www.melodymachine.com/sfark_linux.htm
Regards, Thomas