1 Nov
2009
1 Nov
'09
6:27 p.m.
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Lorenzo <lsutton(a)libero.it> wrote:
I'de like to have some info/pointers on samples
for classical music
(especially orchestra) in the situations when one has to provide a
'virtual' performance.
There are plenty of synths and stuff done with linux for linux, I myself
use puredata extensively for electionic music, but this is a different
dcenario.
I've lately tried the linuxsampler stuff (qsanpler etc.), and was
impressed by the freebie gig piano on the website, but it looks the gig
format is quite dead at the moment, I wonder if there is a second hand
market for those, as it looks they were very popular before tascam
closed down the gigasampler thing.
For classical music, searching around it seems that currently SoundFonts
are the best supported form of samples on Linux.
I'm not necessarily talking of free stuff: quality sampling is a
laborious and skilful process and paying for good samples is fair enough
for a (digital) musician, so I'm talking about support: in fact it seems
that most packages are stand-alones for windows or mac.
Best regards,
Lorenzo.
Yeah, it's disappointing for those of us that were long time GS users
to see what happened Gst after it was bought by Tascam. Bad management
along with a bad economy took its toll and the long time sampler died.
Personally I would confuse the Gig format with the ability to use it.
I expect that Kontakt will support it as long as that product or a
successor survives. Kontakt is probably my next big purchase but I'm
not active enough right now to warrant the cost.
As for orchestral samples there are lots. Garritan makes a fairly low
cost player that actually gets bundled with some other products. I got
a copy with a recent Acid Pro update. In orchestral I don't think it
makes sense to go cheap. If you have (very) deep pockets then look
into the Vienna suites.
Good luck,
Mark