A feedback machine, and gazzillions of quality soundfonts

[glowrak guy]

https://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/P ... AcouFiend/

For those wanting something different, powerful, and very yet musical,
try the demo of this great feedback plugin, in a daw with a wine environment in the background,
supporting linvst/yabridge wrapped plugins. The demo limit is an occasional fadeout of the plugins effect, so thorough testing is possible If you follow it with a delay and diffusion reverb,
it's gets even better...

A huge trove of affordable soundfonts are here, derived from the many
E-mu Proteus hardware synths and rack modules. I have the Planet Earth
set, four .sf2 files, each with a full bank of sounds, so hundeds of ethnic instruments,
including many percussion kits.

https://www.digitalsoundfactory.com/pro ... soundfont/

[d.healey]

E-mu Proteus

Aren't these samplers?

[Linuxmusician01]

[...]
A huge trove of affordable soundfonts are here, derived from the many
E-mu Proteus hardware synths and rack modules. I have the Planet Earth
set, four .sf2 files, each with a full bank of sounds, so hundeds of ethnic instruments,
including many percussion kits.

https://www.digitalsoundfactory.com/pro ... soundfont/

I clicked on the Mellotron which costs $29. There's no info on what Mellotron instruments you get from them in SF2 form for that money. The SF2 soundfonts for a few popular Mellotron instruments are free though:

• https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/500
• https://vstwarehouse.com/instrument-type/mellotron/

[Toejam76]

That's interesting. I am going to check those out. Some of those "old" libraries still sound really good for the size imho. Speaking of E-Mu, they released Proteus VX for free before they croaked. It's still around, works bridged and reads the native format. Another compatible one is MOTU MachFive which was cheap for 50 $, but it's no longer on sale and I don't know if that needs activation through the internet.

[glowrak guy]

E-mu Proteus

Aren't these samplers?

Samplers were part of the E-mu product line, along with keyboard synths, and rackmount synth modules. But these are sounds collections, also in several other common formats. An E-mu employee Timothy Swartz, retained the rights to the sounds, and created DigitalSoundFactory. I like to play them using the windows SafFron SE soundfont-player plugin sent to a rakarrack preset that is mainly eq and reverb, then fit them in somewhere as needed.
Cheers

[d.healey]

Samplers were part of the E-mu product line

Ah cool!

[sysrqer]

E-mu Proteus

Aren't these samplers?

I played with one quite a few years ago. It's possible that I didn't go very in depth with it but for me the Proteus was more like a sound bank than sampler as such.

[glowrak guy]

Here's info on one of their hardware samplers, some on ebay under $300:

https://www.vintagesynth.com/emu/esi4000.php

[finotti]

[...]
A huge trove of affordable soundfonts are here, derived from the many
E-mu Proteus hardware synths and rack modules. I have the Planet Earth
set, four .sf2 files, each with a full bank of sounds, so hundeds of ethnic instruments,
including many percussion kits.

https://www.digitalsoundfactory.com/pro ... soundfont/

I clicked on the Mellotron which costs $29. There's no info on what Mellotron instruments you get from them in SF2 form for that money. The SF2 soundfonts for a few popular Mellotron instruments are free though:

• https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/500
• https://vstwarehouse.com/instrument-type/mellotron/

LinuxSampler also has a very nice Mellotron.

[Toejam76]

for me the Proteus was more like a sound bank than sampler as such.

That's correct. They are so called "Romplers". They can't sample and hold a bunch of presets in ROM often with filters and other effects.

[tavasti]

A huge trove of affordable soundfonts are here, derived from the many
E-mu Proteus hardware synths and rack modules. I have the Planet Earth
set, four .sf2 files, each with a full bank of sounds, so hundeds of ethnic instruments,
including many percussion kits.

https://www.digitalsoundfactory.com/pro ... soundfont/

I feel price is pretty high for sf2? And anyway, I feel sf2 is old tech, would not trust that to deliver wanted quality. And no examples what kind of sounds each package provides?

[glowrak guy]

In their shop, the individual soundsets have a play button that plays 5 or 6 of the included sounds, so playing several of those collection demos should give you an overview of what quality to expect. These are 90's sounds, and I do believe hit songs were allowed in that decade and E-mu products were often used. The Planet Earth set that I have is four banks of 128 sounds, even more as the many kits likely have a few instruments from other collections. About 7 pennies per sound.

https://www.digitalsoundfactory.com/shop/

Fretted Synth's SaFfron SE soundont player is an excellent free plugin, with three layers, 5 effects, and four filters with AHDSRV controls.

https://rekkerd.org/fretted-synth/ scroll down the list for the SafFron SE

Cheers

[tavasti]

Related, huge set of sf2 soundfonts, 1108 sf2 files. Did not test any of them, there was no Duduk I was looking for
https://soundpacks.com/free-presets/ult ... font-pack/

I suspect their quality is not that high as in those Digital Soundfactory packs.