I have to say I love these kinds of experiments! Great idea all around... I am just about to download the strings.zip, thanks much for that. Download speed is about 85kb/sec here, so it will need roughly an hour (just reports 50kb/sec, so will last a bit longer, he he). The sound example is, taken you used the "so - so" files, great! I sometimes think if a new master-composer was amongst us, and he'd use such sounds as yours for the instrumentation/his masterwork, that would be more than enough to convince an orchestra to - play it for real in a huge hall :). Thank you very much, if I can find anything to say what would improve this, I'd tell you (after trying it out - it's 6% now^^).
Hey, you're welcome Klemperer. I'm just glad you like it! As mentioned though, this is experimental stuff and should be considered alpha quality. There's level discrepancies, tuning problem and god knows what else, but right now I'm just trying to get the basic building blocks in place. Just so you know, in case something sounds odd. Here's something more to play around with: Four horns, two velocity layers (pp/ff). Trying a more subtle room ambience this time, as the one on the strings seems to eat up the attack portion of the sounds. BTW, does anyone know how to go about making mod wheel crossfades in SFZ files?
This is cool. I like the example you've posted. Thanks a lot for sharing. What especially attracts me is the "roughness" as you call it, because, as I do more urban styles music, real orchestral samples are often too clean. However, if I could make a small suggestion, I'd prefer the samples as dry as possible (without room ambience), because I always add my own room ambience anyway and this strongly depends on the rest of the mix. I think the samples would be more flexible without pre-added room ambience. Thanks again.
Hi Cerendir. I would like to know wich is the source of the samples... did you record them or are them from some free source like Philarmonia site? Thanks!
Thanks your answer Cerendir! I uploaded for you some interesting samples i have in my hardisk. The "Erans sampling project" cello. It was free and allows re-distribution. You will find some sfz files that works with keyswitches. I made a pdf manual for it, you will found in a subfolder. Can be usefull to your project. If not, feel free to discard them: Best Regards
Hi Cerendir. Here you have the "Lofberg" Violin from the Erans Sampling project: Add the Modwheel as a controller: you can try the opcode "gain_CCx" where x is the number of the controller you want that controll gain, in this case "1". In the Cello from Erans, i have mapped in in some of the sFZs, so you can open and give there a look. Edit: cerendir, this sfz examples can help you in your design: