LinuxMusicians

Hi there

I am searching for a professional orchestra sound library. Mostly, it´s a VST library you can buy. Does anybody have experience with a special VST sound library (orchestra and/or piano) that runs fine under Linux? With fst or whatever? Or is the best to work with wine? I mean: take a windows program that got VST (for sound libraries) and run it under wine? It has to be very stable and should not to be much expensive (100-300€).

Thanks for your help

Markus

PS the main developer of the LinuxSampler uses the vienna symphonic library. Any experience? How expensive is this?

Not a VST, so maybe not what you're looking for, but maybe you could take a look at Sonatina (http://sso.mattiaswestlund.net/): it's a sfz orchestra library, you can use it with linuxsampler.
For a piano library you can try the Salamander Grand Piano (http://download.linuxaudio.org/lau/Sala ... ndPianoV2/).

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/sampletankfree/features/

Try this, using wine, wineasio, and reaper, cantabile1.2 or windows energyXT2.

You'll need to create an IK account and register, but it's a time tested
16 part multi-timbral /multi-fx engine. If you like it, watch for group-buys,
bargains, and closeouts, on full versions, bundles, and compatible soundsets.

maybe this site is of some interest for you ?

http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesounde ... s/library/

And also for me

Thank you brummer

hi there

thanks for your proposals!

@emarsk
so, it mustn´t be a VST but it has to be professionel. i know the sonatina + salamander libraries and worked a short time with them. but it´s only semiprofessional / amateur for me.

@brummer (hi again) / slowpick
i will try this the next days, many thanks!

if someone have more links (demo of a commercial library with the option to by it - something like that), please post it!


musical greetings

markus aka musix

SampleTekk has sounds in gigafile format you can use with Linuxsampler.

Both SampleTank (ikmultimedia) and Kontakt player work with wine on Linux. I've tried the demo versions of both and found SampleTank worked nearly perfectly while Kontakt player was a bit clunky and hung
sometimes. But YMMV. Or you can host these on a Windows box and pipe the sound to Linux.

Its great that Linuxsampler supports SFZ but unfortunately I doubt we'll ever see commercial SFZ libraries since it is an open format. However, there are Windows/Mac programs which can convert proprietary
sound formats to SFZ (Chicken Systems and Extreme Sample Converter). I have no experience with this myself however.

For piano you might also consider Pianoteq which has a native Linux version, including a LinuxVST which can be used in qtractor or Ardour3. Demo version is available.

hi there!

@brummer
thanks, i have heard some sounds and they seems to be good enough. now the next question: how can i make a real sound library of the singly mp3-sounds? i mean: how can i take all the violin-sounds in one gig to use it in linuxsampler? or as sfz (whatever linuxsampler can play)?

@varpa
hm, i looked at sampletank bit the demo said to me:"no, not for my classical works. it seems to be more for popmusic ...". but i try to find the pianoteq ...

thanks again!

EDIT: wow, pianoteq looks very nice! good sounds!

hi markus

you could use, for example Swami : http://www.swamiproject.org/
to create sf2 or giga sample sets. (it's also in the debain archive, but I didn't know if the current version in stable support giga already)

greets
brummer

SFZ is a text format so you could use the single MP3s and make SFZ instruments. It would be a lot of work, but if you made good SFZ files, others could use them and download the sounds separately since the sounds themselves can not be distributed. The SFZ format is straightforward and documented here: http://www.cakewalk.com/DevXchange/article.aspx?aid=108. An easy way to start would be to just work from an example of another SFZ file, like the one for Salamander grand - you just need to change the names of the samples.

I also see that bigfishaudio.com sells gigasampler files of orchestral sounds for reasonable prices.

many thanks for these very good links ! i will try all in the next days and will see what works for me and what not.

@brummer
in the last days i installed a new debian-sid as minimal-installation on my soundcomputer. i works fine and i will test in the next few weeks as it´s stable enough for me. thanks for your advises in other forums for testing sid! parallel i have my squeeze as standard-install, for sure.

@varpa
i will try to build the sfz. this kind of sharing files sounds good for me!

musical greetings

markus aka musix