Orchestral Plugins?

[JoshL]

Anyone know of any good orchestral plugins that work well, either native or that dssi-vst likes? I tried to use Garritan Personal Orchestra (which has been my standby in windows) and it ALMOST loaded the first time, but it keeps crashing. I'm on a bit of a deadline, so I'm probably going to have to re-install windows until after this project has passed (which I would have preferred not to do), unless one of you have a good suggestion, or something I might not have tried with dssi-vst. Any help would be appreciated!

As an aside, I'd certainly be up for working on such a thing in the future, if anyone else is and needs a hand.

[roaldz]

I think you should look up some samplepacks for linuxsampler, and read up about it. I think it's the closest match.

Roald

[Pablo]

As for the vsti plugins, you can also try fst (which has a gui to load the plugins called festige). winetricks is your friend (search this site) and spaces in paths/file names, your enemy.

Cheers! Pablo

[studio32]

www.openoctave.org
You could also ask what samples they use

[raboof]

Anyone know of any good orchestral plugins that work well, either native or that dssi-vst likes?

Not sure if it'd qualify as a 'good orchestral plugin', but the fluid midi soundfonts seem popular.

[alex stone]

Josh, over at openoctave we use Sonic Implant, VSL, Dan Dean, Miroslav Viteous, and old Gigastudio gig sample libs in Linuxsampler. If you're looking for something fairly modestly priced, then you might try

http://www.bestservice.de/

for a comprehensive list of what's available, and the pricing.

If you're going to use something in Linuxsampler, then Gig2 format is your best option.

you should also know that Linuxsampler can now handle SFZ format. You can build these yourself from a collection of samples, and the format is easy to use, it's simply a folder containing the samples, and a text file you build according to what you want.

More information for the SFZ format can be found here.

http://www.cakewalk.com/devxchange/sfz.asp

Good luck,

Alex.

[JoshL]

Thanks for all the tips! Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I had to reformat and put windows back on to finish this project (I didn't really sleep from Sunday to Friday getting it done). There are some pretty awesome gig2 libraries out there, so when I have the funds to invest in them, I should be able to go back to linux. I did like Rosegarden, for the time that I spent learning it.

That said, I think the the score came out pretty good, and the director loved it. I'll post when I have some things uploaded. I have the 48 hour film fest coming up next, and after that I have a piece to compose for a chamber music group in germany, so I should be able to come back to linux for that (since they just need sheet music). And then permanently, as soon as I get my hands on a decent orchestral library!

[raboof]

but the fluid midi soundfonts seem popular.

To get a taste of what fluid can sound like, I rendered a classical MIDI I found on the web (at http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/ ) with it:

http://arnout.engelen.eu/files/dev/linu ... 9part1.mp3

Some parts are pretty good, some are pretty bad - but keep in mind the MIDI was not tweaked for this soundfont, so it could probably sound a lot better.

[SR]

but the fluid midi soundfonts seem popular.

To get a taste of what fluid can sound like, I rendered a classical MIDI I found on the web (at http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/ ) with it:

http://arnout.engelen.eu/files/dev/linu ... 9part1.mp3

Some parts are pretty good, some are pretty bad - but keep in mind the MIDI was not tweaked for this soundfont, so it could probably sound a lot better.

What soundfont(s) did you use for this?

[Capoeira]

but the fluid midi soundfonts seem popular.

To get a taste of what fluid can sound like, I rendered a classical MIDI I found on the web (at http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/ ) with it:

http://arnout.engelen.eu/files/dev/linu ... 9part1.mp3

Some parts are pretty good, some are pretty bad - but keep in mind the MIDI was not tweaked for this soundfont, so it could probably sound a lot better.

not bad, the brasses sound quite artificial...never heard a sampled brass that doesn't though

[raboof]

To get a taste of what fluid can sound like: http://arnout.engelen.eu/files/dev/linu ... 9part1.mp3

What soundfont(s) did you use for this?

'Fluid r3' - it comes with Debian and Ubuntu named 'fluid-soundfont-gm'.