High quality soundfont from acoustic instruments
Hi,
It's my first post here, so please excuse me if I'm doing anything wrong here.
I'm interested in making a library/collection of "presets" from acoustic instruments. Since I wanted to start from the harpsichord, I started looking for permissively-licensed harpsichord samples and I only found three samples by OpenPathMusic which didn't even allow to fade into silence before the plucking sound at key release. So I guess it would make sense to make some high-quality presets.
If you have an acoustic instrument that you would be willing to record (preferably one sample per note) and release permissively, please post here. I'll do some editing (if needed) and put the samples together in polyphone. All presets will be licensed individually per request of each author of the samples.
Unfortunately, I don't own any acoustic instruments, so I can't do the first step myself. I'd be thus grateful if you could record (or help me find permissively licensed) samples for the following instruments:
- Piano
- Harpsichord
- Violin
- Viola
- Cello
- Any other instrument you write music for.
Thanks in advance,
theclassicalcomposer
Comments
In short, what I'd do is accepting samples from real instruments (CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA licenses) and turn them into soundfonts under the same licenses as the respective samples.
I'm sure we all want our playback to sound realistic and, in fact, there are samples from real instruments sold for more than $50. A free (as in money and usage) replacement for those is a good idea I think.
In reply to In short, what I'd do is… by theclassicalcomposer
I have a soundfont called Nice-Piano-Orchestra-V1.0 that you can download from here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AM_VoIndH8qhiwBMx4CoV9W5nYmpo1Cv/view?…
It has all the instruments you mentioned above and is 337mb in size. The piano is a 6-velocity-layer version I made from the Salamander Grand at 157mb and the other sounds are modified from SSO, Ethan Winer and other Creative Commons sounds. Hopefully these might get you started on your quest.
You can read a little more about the sounds on my site https://sites.google.com/site/soundfonts4u/
In reply to I have a soundfont called… by Jonky Ponky
Thank you for your support! :-)
Nice-Piano-Orchestra-V1.0 looks pretty interesting and I think I'll at least consider some of the samples. Specifically, I liked that piano samples are not cutoff abruptly (at least not before around 20 seconds). Other instruments are more realistic than in soundfonts I'm used to (e.g. in Flute 1 (+8 SSO you can actually hear there is some air flow). I like there are violins for both slow and fast passages (since most likely a violinist will play notes differently in a peaceful adagio than in the opening theme of C.P.E. Bach's Cello Concerto in A minor).
However, the harpsichord is missing the plucking sound when a key is released (although I guess more than 90% of the available soundfonts are missing it too, so don't worry). Also, there are some looping bugs in violin samples (not that I can't fix them, but I think it's a good idea to let you know). I think you could look at https://polyphone-soundfonts.com/en/documentation/tutorials/using-custo… (even if you don't use Polyphone, the same principles apply).
Overall, even if I don't make much use of it, I'm always happy to help. :-)
theclassicalcomposer
Update: I put the intended site online: http://sf2collection.org . Of course, there isn't anything useful yet, but it would be nice if you provided some feedback.
Due to not getting any requests and due to not having enough time, I stopped the project.