Custom orchestral samples

Some more samples for your project: Trombone ensemble from Erans. No sfz files yet (sorry) you need convert the reason files. I have not yet done it.

Matthias King: Thanks for the tips. Nothing new though, unfortunately. :) I haven't used the Squdifont samples in any way yet as I'm worried about the legality of doing so. As you say, they're based on the Miroslav library. Now, I doubt that they've been simply converted to soundfont format (if they had been, I would expect higher quality), most likely they've been sampled, mapped and looped. This is really a legal grey area though. AFAIK it is legal to sample a hardware rompler and offer the samples to others, at least for free. But does the same apply to a software sample library? I honestly don't know, but I doubt it. Not that I have ever heard of anyone getting into trouble over a soundfont, but I prefer to stay clear of things plucked from commercial libraries if I can. As for the Westgate trumpet, I'm already using it in the trumpet section. Lovely instrument indeed. marce: Thanks! You keep throwing these cool free samples at me. I was never even aware of more than the ERANS cello. Unfortunately I can't convert from Reason files, Translator Free seems to have crapped out on me (the timer seems to be stuck at 4hs 16mins). I'll try reinstalling it and see what happens.

Aw, sorry there was nothing new in what I posted. I'm a little out of touch with all the freebies out there these days. That used to be my entire operation, and I had a nice collection of very usable free stuff, but I've put that all aside since I got my current libraries. There is one thing I remember seeing though, some soundfonts called Maestro. There were some drums, and a few woodwinds, and possibly some other stuff, but I mainly just remember the woodwinds, and I remember them being VERY nice. Not just "free" nice, but nice if you had to pay. And I think they're 100% legit. SF2MIDI.com is by far the best soundfont site around. There used to be thesoundsite and hammersound, hammersound is still around, but now SF2MIDI has everything they both had/have and more. Last I checked, the Maestro stuff is on there. You probably already know about SF2MIDI, but in case you didn't, check it out. You have to register, but it's free and they don't spam you. **EDIT** I went through some DVD's I burned and found my soundfont collection. I picked out some of the stuff I remember being some of the best and most usable stuff. I can zip them up and send them to you. It's a few hundred meg. Let me know the best way to get them to you. I might put them on dropbox or something.

woohoo the jedi theme! not bad :)

I think subtle EQ and the right reverb will be the biggest things in getting everything to gel. I'll zip or rar them up and upload the samples to Rapidshare and PM you the link. You may have some, most, or all of them, but I went through them yesterday and the ones I picked out are very usable, so if you don't have any of them, they should come in handy. I'm also putting a nice Steinway piano in there. It's probably the nicest free Steinway set I came across. I also have a nice Yamaha grand if you're interested. I'm going to check out the violas in a few minutes. There are a couple of violas in the package I'm uploading too, so they may or may not factor into your violas set. I agree that the violas were the hardest to find a nice sample set for. It wasn't until I came across the Squidfont years ago that I had a real nice violas section to use. Then I found a couple more eventually. I'll upload and PM you the link shortly.