Best soundfont for brass band?
I write and arrange music primarily for brass band/ensemble, and so was wondering if you lot have any particular soundfonts which are particularily good with brass instruments.
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Here is a good place to find soundfonts
http://search.4shared.com/q/CKACAw/1/brass%20sf2
In reply to Here is a good place to find by Bedjka
Hey, I went on that website, I don't know if I'b being stupid, but everytime I try and download one, it downloads something called setup.dmg which seems a bit suspicious to me
In reply to Hey, I went on that website, by Xenol
I've just checked the site out.
I don't trust it either
You can't download anything without using your social media account or signing up.
Positively dodgy!
In reply to I've just checked the site by ChurchOrganist
What's wrong with signing up, it's a common procedure on most websites for sharing/dowloading stuff.
I admit it's a little tricky finding the way to avoid downloading the wrong (commercial) files, otherwise all the best free soundfonts are there to be grabbed.
http://www.freesoundvault.com/sounds/horns/
In reply to http://www.freesoundvault.com by Bedjka
Thanks for the freesoundvault.com link That was useful. i have now downloaded quite a few of the sounds from there :)
About the 4shared lnk. Is it legal or illegal to download from this site?
In reply to http://www.freesoundvault.com by Bedjka
When I click a link, I'm taken to a page full of text. When I right click the link, it only allows me to save it as an html file. Is there anything I'm doing wrong?
The Website is legal but the users are free to upload whatever they want, therefore the content is sometimes "illegal".
Nearly all soundfont/sf2 files are private/home made or from the free domain thus legal.
Here is an other good link
http://beats.codenamehippie.com/samples/SoundFrontz/
In reply to The Website is legal but the by Bedjka
Thanks for the link :)
OK. Excuse my stupidity, but when I click on the file, it opens up a window of 'text' , when I right clck>save link as> and download the file name it refers to it as a 'text file' in the dialogue box. However when I save, it is a sf2 file when I right click>properties
Am I correct? :)
Have you tried the Hammersound site?
It has hundreds of soundfonts.........
http://www.hammersound.net/
In reply to Have you tried the by ChurchOrganist
Thanks for hammersound.com. I believe I have downloaded the soundfonts fro this website, but I will check again :)
In reply to Have you tried the by ChurchOrganist
why can't I download anything from there?
Except for Thomas Hammer originals
On my pc (windows 7 64bit/google chrome), when i click on a file it is automaticly dowloaded as it is (sf2 instrument).
An other link (same procedure as described above, only wth the blue links)
http://hirotaka2014.sakura.ne.jp/mh0406/music/sf_comp/
If you are not aware of it, "sf2 splitter" to extract a single instrument from a sf2 GM bank.
In reply to On my pc (windows 7 by Bedjka
Thanks. Unfortunately I am using XP. I have downloaded the soundfonts, and they are working in LMMS. I hope at some poit totry and loa them into the Yamaha TRx16 software sampler.
:)
May thanks about the info on the splitter. I will look that up. :)
And now for the ChineseSf2 website. :)
On XP (or Windows7 32bit), to me the best (lightest/fastest) sf2 player is the Rgc one
http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=217
Thanks for the link to the Soundfont player & Buddy Editor. :)
Will I be able to use this with Reaper as a VST plugin?
In 32bit, for sure, yes.
In 64bit it doesn't work for me, i use Jeskola XS-1 for that.
http://jeskola.net/xs1/content/ ( you must have "microsoft c++ visual" installed first)
In reply to In 32bit, for sure, yes. In by Bedjka
That's because the RGC player is a 32 bit application long ago superseded by Cakewalk.
It is, in fact, primarily an SFZ player.
In reply to In 32bit, for sure, yes. In by Bedjka
So, you mean that if I upgrade a machine to 64bits (hardware and software) then I will need the link you peovided.
I dont fully understand the link though :(
XS1 is the soudfont player, just different versions?
Buzz is DAW
the rest are just samples (uncompressed) ?
I do have C++ installed on my machine though
What concerns you is only the 2 Jeskola xs-1 links (older and last version).
On a 64bit system, the xs-1 player is the simple/free solution, but this tool,
https://jstuff.wordpress.com/jbridge/
should allow you to use the Rgc player but i haven't verified that.
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