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sf2 deluge
http://beats.codenamehippie.com/samples/SoundFrontz/
Wanted to share this one with the class: pages of riches and one-of-a-kind weirdnesses
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Oh my. Not sure if I should thank you profusely or curse you for the hours of click and save I'm surely in for. Let's go with the former - awesome resource!
That's a huge collection...Thanks!
@StormJH1 said:
Down them all Firefox extension will be your one click friend in this case. And that is an impressive page, I may have to look into bs-16 at some point.
Bs-16i is a must-have on iOS!
Eventually. I don't do as much composing in that way as I try to tell myself that I do. I mainly use my iPad for mixing in auria and for synth work live. In any event, this collection on this page is quite complete.
You can often tell the quality of a SF2 by it's size (it's relative to the number and length of wav files that make it up). I'm sorry to say that most of these are on the very small end. There's only about a half dozen that are larger than 1MB and 90% of them are less than 500kb. You might find some good stuff in there who knows, but I'd be skeptical. Definitely grab Orchestral Presets, choir choral aahhs, French Horn Section, and Orchestral Bells if you don't have them. The Trumpet Danny Fye stuff could be good too.
Are they all free for use / royalty free as well?
@Coloobar
Yep, it's true about the sizes of many of them. But: cool sounds!
http://simant.ru/pub/multimedia/Samples/sf2/
@Coloobar Nice set!
That Steinway is a fav, these are some classics. The link from soundfrontz is more on the outlier tip, more goofball stuff for sure...
I just went on a SF2 download frenzy the last couple of days.
I'm disappointed by Bismark, and Nice to be your Friend synth. Weird memory issues with both. Wrong samples played, MIDI breaking, etc. The soundfonts are big, but not ginormous. Should I try Genome?
@johnfromberkeley said:
Don't know...there is this one too, but I've heard a lot of people that actually prefer bs-16i over it:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/soundfont-pro/id764436386?mt=8
bs-16i is one of my favorite apps. I consider it fairly reliable, but SoundFonts can be quite finnicky. These are files that are often dated from the late 90's with varying sizes and arrangements, not to mention audio quality, and some of them just don't agree with certain programs. But I think anything with large file sizes is an issue on iPad because of memory restraints.
I have MultiTrackStudio (the $30 DAW) - it's excellent, and one neat feature is that it has a built-in SF player. Super-useful feature, except my early testing of it seems to cut off .sf2's in a way that bs-16i wouldn't.
Caustic PCM Synth will also play .sf2 files.
@dwarman said:
That's right, I had forgotten that. I'll check some of these out then when I have a chance.
Yes, Caustic is actually pretty convenient way to play .sf2 files (pretty sure it even does "Open In" if you have the .sf2 in AudioShare. One neat thing about that is that Caustic obviously has a piano roll, so if you have a percussion SoundFont, for example, you can grid program it (with velocity) pretty much like you would in BeatBox.
Another simple option is to link up bs-16i with something like Xynthesizer that does MIDI out.
Gestrument also supports sf2.
With BS-16i you will get memory issues trying to load too many large soundfonts at once in the 4 available bank slots. If you load only one big one at a time (along with 4 smaller ones) you can get by without the app crashing. I get occasional error "unable to load soundfont" but it's rare. Usually the app just crashes and I know I've pushed it too far, just go back and retry. I think around 600MB of soundfonts is the limit to load at once on my iPad 4, but YMMV.
I've never seen or noticed the problem with the wrong samples played or midi breaking. How are you inputting midi into the app?
@johnfromberkeley said:
Caustic will also Import directly from Audioshare. Very handy, very few Apps do it.
@dwarman
How? It doesn't work for me. Presets and content packs work fine through "Open In". With SF2 files Caustic does not show as an option on my iPad or phone. I'm on all most current software. Thanks if you can give me any input on this.