![]() ![]() Ok! I was in business! I ran MuseScore and told it to find the folder in which I had downloaded the. At last, I came across one link that hadn’t been taken down! sf2’s… and my search took me to myriad forums, whose links then led to dead-ends. Ok… Round 2… I googled about, looking for anyone who may have converted these same. sfz - is NOT compatible with the format that MuseScore can read. So I downloaded it… and discovered that the format of the SSO library. I listened to the mp3 sample of what this library could do, and I was greatly impressed! This was for me, man! It’s primarily aimed at beginners, but also more experienced composers looking for something lightweight and/or portable might find it useful. While not as advanced or ambitious in scope as commercial offerings, SSO contains all the basic building blocks for creating real virtual orchestrations. Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra is a free orchestral sample library. I started googling around for free SoundFont options, and eventually I stumbled upon this HIGHLY recommended creative commons project, Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra: So, I decided, maybe it was time to move on and explore various other free SoundFont options that were available online…. I couldn’t figure out what was going on to make it do that - and, quite frankly, I didn’t really want to spend all my time figuring it out for sounds that I didn’t pay much attention to anyway. So, to this day, when I compose, I’m always more concerned with the artistry and construction of the writing itself, knowing that the final result with live instruments will always come out the way I want it (erm, that is, after the whole rehearsal-thing… lol…)īut, the way the current SoundFont (I was using TimGM6mb.sf2 at the time, decent but definitely MIDI-esque like I said, I didn’t care…until…) was behaving as my score got bigger and more complex finally caused it to revert to some weirdness with the violins at one point in the middle of the score. I’m usually not phased one bit by what sounds do or don’t come out of my computer’s speakers while I’m writing… When I ultimately started composing (in the truest sense of the term, I guess) at the tender age of 13, I didn’t have a computer! So, everything I did was by hand, with only a miniature keyboard and my own mind to guide my sense of the resulting sound. In the midst of working on my latest composition “Of Roses and Lilies” with my current favored music notation program, MuseScore (which is FREE, btw!!), the SoundFont I had been nonchalantly working with - without any further thought about it until now - decided to go a little wonky on me…. □ Finally, I’ve also been using the free Audacity to create really amazing sounding finishing touches… It all helps to give a much fuller and more realistic sound. I am still fully hooked on the notation software Notion for both iPad and desktop and fully enjoy using it for the ease of my process of composing as well as the ease and beauty of rendering the digital demo recordings - thanks to their beautiful playback sampled from recordings of the London Philharmonic! But both MuseScore and GarageBand have come out with incredible updates!! So, as of late, I use GarageBand as my DAW (it does import tempos now! And the “live drummer” option is phenomenal to work with!) and I use my Notion playback as my base then play with the sounds in the MuseScore SSO collection to overlay and enhance certain families, like the strings. ![]() UPDATE (): I am always experimenting with new technology to improve my demo-rendering experience. ![]()
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