Re: [Rosegarden-user] [Rosegarden-devel] Good free orchestral soundfont needed!!!

[Brett W. M. <idr...@gm...>]

On 6/20/07, Vladimir Savic <vla...@gm...> wrote:

> Can someone point me to good orchestral sounds? Sf2, gig or whatever... I
> really don't mind if it sounds realistically.
>
> Need things like tremolo, pizzicato and con sordino(i) strings, various French
> horn sounds etc.
> Size doesn't matters. I've found really good piano fonts and partially good
> string fonts so far, but not orchestral sounds. These are usually too lazy
> for fast passages or staccato sounding.
>
> What do you use (commercial or free) for your works?

I haven't found anything free that sounds good... and the commerical
stuff probably doesn't run well under Linux (Garritan Personal
Orchestra and Miroslav Philharmonik seem to be the most popular sample
banks). I use Miroslav Philharmonik and can't get it to run under
Linux at all.

-- Brett
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