Orchestral tubas and solo tuba

[j_e_f_f_g]

A tuba section for the No Budget Orchestra. Plus a solo tuba.

Wish I had better samples to work with. It took lots of work just to get these in a useable state. Looping was a nightmare, and the result is not as good as I'd like. Still, it's better than Sonatina's tubas, which have some severe intonation issues.

http://www.bandshed.net/sounds/sfz/tuba_sect.zip

[stanlea]

A tuba section for the No Budget Orchestra. Plus a solo tuba.

Wish I had better samples to work with. It took lots of work just to get these in a useable state. Looping was a nightmare, and the result is not as good as I'd like. Still, it's better than Sonatina's tubas, which have some severe intonation issues.

http://wikisend.com/download/405142/tuba_sect.zip

Philarmonia's ones are not good ?

[j_e_f_f_g]

Philarmonia's ones are not good ?

All their samples are far too short to be useful. You need a sustain of at least 5 seconds to have any chance of creating a seamless loop. With lots of manual editing (and I've had many years experience with warmform editing/looping, so I know how to best improve/utilize a sample), I can sometimes work with shorter samples, but typically the results are not as good.

The tuba samples I had not only weren't very long, they also had intonation (pitch) problems, tone problems, noise/hiss/pops, etc. I put in about 30 hours of editing to get them to this point. I also resorted to using a synth to add in some elements I thought were missing from the samples. You'd be very surprised to compare the end result to what I had to start with.

But this is the first sample set I'm really ambivalent about. In particular, the looping is not up to my standards. I may do a bit more work on them to see if can improve them. But I really wish some of you guys could supply me with some better raw samples, so I could put together a kick-ass collection of free sfz instruments.

[GMaq]

Hmmm

Maybe people with kids in school with orchestra music programs could have them "borrow' some instruments over a weekend for sampling..

Just imagine how great the 'No Budget Orchestra' will sound with beaten to ratshit high school instruments...

[j_e_f_f_g]

I fixed some of the looping issues. This is now a serviceable tuba.

[ssj71]

All their samples are far too short to be useful. You need a sustain of at least 5 seconds to have any chance of creating a seamless loop.

I don't think tuba players can play a single note for 5 seconds. Now if you wanted "oom-pah" they'd be lining up!