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gotBells?

VmusicVmusic
in General App Discussion

Hi,
Which synth has the most realistic bells?
It's time for some holiday busking and having bells in my audio palette would be great!!

Bell-less in Boston
Thanks!!

Comments

  • wimwim
    edited November 2023

    I would just search for "bell sound fonts" on the internet and use any sound-font player, such as KQ Sampei, BS-16i, Soundfonts app or AudioLayer.

  • HotStrangeHotStrange

    Caelum audio has a really cool Christmas sample set for free on their website. There’s a free Christmas pack in the Roli Noise app as well.

    Outside of that, maybe some of the Icegear apps? I second @wim as well. I’d check Pianobook also.

  • GavinskiGavinski

    @Vmusic said:
    Hi,
    Which synth has the most realistic bells?
    It's time for some holiday busking and having bells in my audio palette would be great!!

    Bell-less in Boston
    Thanks!!

    Hahaha,​love that sign off. For a synth, maybe Mersenne? It's specially designed to do physically modeled bells.

    Pianoteq has a bunch of awesome tuned percussion you could maybe use, and the free pack you get when signing up for a license includes church bells and tubular bells.

    I bet there's a bunch of stuff on the decent Sampler website. Not technically bells, but similar, Speldosa has a great wintry sound to it, and I'm a big fan of the metal cups pack for decent Sampler.

    Tons of options basically.

    As hot strange said, u could probably find just tons of samples online then make your own instruments, so no need to buy anything really.

  • VmusicVmusic

    Thanks for the ideas. I really want a synth that I can play with specific MIDI notes. I'll look at Roli.

    I wish there was an easy way to tag /search through your synths. I have a Korg, a Moog, King of Digital and some others..... but gee, I don't want to spend an hour searching for bells.

  • GavinskiGavinski

    @Vmusic said:
    Thanks for the ideas. I really want a synth that I can play with specific MIDI notes. I'll look at Roli.

    I wish there was an easy way to tag /search through your synths. I have a Korg, a Moog, King of Digital and some others..... but gee, I don't want to spend an hour searching for bells.

    What do you mean 'play with specific midi notes, I'll look at Roli'?

    Maybe u mean you want mpe? You could always record any bells into an mpe sampler player like Salome, Samplewiz 2 or whatever and make instruments that way. But 'play with specific midi notes', in terms of being able to play samples on notes of your choosing, is something any synth or Sampler will allow you to do, pretty much.

  • VmusicVmusic

    @Gavinski said:

    @Vmusic said:
    Thanks for the ideas. I really want a synth that I can play with specific MIDI notes. I'll look at Roli.

    I wish there was an easy way to tag /search through your synths. I have a Korg, a Moog, King of Digital and some others..... but gee, I don't want to spend an hour searching for bells.

    What do you mean 'play with specific midi notes, I'll look at Roli'?

    Maybe u mean you want mpe? You could always record any bells into an mpe sampler player like Salome, Samplewiz 2 or whatever and make instruments that way. But 'play with specific midi notes', in terms of being able to play samples on notes of your choosing, is something any synth or Sampler will allow you to do, pretty much.

    @Gavinski Like you play the notes on a keyboard or MIDI keyboard, and the sound you hear is bells. If I play a 'G' note on the keyboard, I want the bell to sound out with G, etc. Just like if you had an old school set of hand bells, where each bell has a different pitch.

  • HotStrangeHotStrange

    @Vmusic said:

    @Gavinski said:

    @Vmusic said:
    Thanks for the ideas. I really want a synth that I can play with specific MIDI notes. I'll look at Roli.

    I wish there was an easy way to tag /search through your synths. I have a Korg, a Moog, King of Digital and some others..... but gee, I don't want to spend an hour searching for bells.

    What do you mean 'play with specific midi notes, I'll look at Roli'?

    Maybe u mean you want mpe? You could always record any bells into an mpe sampler player like Salome, Samplewiz 2 or whatever and make instruments that way. But 'play with specific midi notes', in terms of being able to play samples on notes of your choosing, is something any synth or Sampler will allow you to do, pretty much.

    @Gavinski Like you play the notes on a keyboard or MIDI keyboard, and the sound you hear is bells. If I play a 'G' note on the keyboard, I want the bell to sound out with G, etc. Just like if you had an old school set of hand bells, where each bell has a different pitch.

    I think everything mentioned in this thread will do just that. I’d recommend looking at Pianobook for some decent sampler banks. Those + the app itself are free. And as mentioned Kronecker and Mersenne are fantastic.

    Piantoeq is also free to demo and has lots of options that could work. Pure Synth Platinum and any soundfont player as well.

  • SvetlovskaSvetlovska
    edited November 2023

    Yep, that’s what any sample set for Decent Sampler or Pianobook will do, fresh out of the box, no need to make your own. Press a key and a sample of the corresponding pitch comes out, it’s what they do :)

    I found these on Decent Sampler, all free:

    And these (and more besides) on Pianobook (which also work in Decent Sampler):


    I’d also second Speldosa as a very Christmassy sounding app.

    https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/speldosa/id6446171628

    To get Pianobook packs to open in Decent Sampler download them direct to your iPad and do this: turn the suffix on the whole unzipped zip file to “.dslibrary”, and then open it into the standalone DS app, and load in as an instrument.

    You can then use as-is or open up an instance of it inside AUM (other DAWs are also available, apparently, but who needs ‘em? ;)) and Robert is your veritable mother’s brother.

  • BenBen

    There are so many. Pure Synth Platinum has some good ones. I would start there. It really covers a lot of ground.

  • HotStrangeHotStrange

    @Ben said:
    There are so many. Pure Synth Platinum has some good ones. I would start there. It really covers a lot of ground.

    I recommended that one also. Never tried the bells in PSP until I tested them for my reply here and they really are fantastic.

  • GavinskiGavinski

    @Vmusic said:

    @Gavinski said:

    @Vmusic said:
    Thanks for the ideas. I really want a synth that I can play with specific MIDI notes. I'll look at Roli.

    I wish there was an easy way to tag /search through your synths. I have a Korg, a Moog, King of Digital and some others..... but gee, I don't want to spend an hour searching for bells.

    What do you mean 'play with specific midi notes, I'll look at Roli'?

    Maybe u mean you want mpe? You could always record any bells into an mpe sampler player like Salome, Samplewiz 2 or whatever and make instruments that way. But 'play with specific midi notes', in terms of being able to play samples on notes of your choosing, is something any synth or Sampler will allow you to do, pretty much.

    @Gavinski Like you play the notes on a keyboard or MIDI keyboard, and the sound you hear is bells. If I play a 'G' note on the keyboard, I want the bell to sound out with G, etc. Just like if you had an old school set of hand bells, where each bell has a different pitch.

    Yes that's very standard!

  • GavinskiGavinski

    @Vmusic said:
    Thanks for the ideas. I really want a synth that I can play with specific MIDI notes. I'll look at Roli.

    I wish there was an easy way to tag /search through your synths. I have a Korg, a Moog, King of Digital and some others..... but gee, I don't want to spend an hour searching for bells.

    And yeah, I really wish all synth preset browsers had a search function

  • GeoTonyGeoTony

    BeatHawk Gamelan, Mallets and World Percussion sound packs have lots of ‘bell’ sounding thingamajigs.

  • waka_xwaka_x

    https://sugar-bytes.de/aparillo-ipad

  • HotStrangeHotStrange

    @JMcM said:
    I have used and like:
    1. Decent Sampler app + Spring Chimes from pianobook https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/spring-chimes/
    2. Decent Sampler app + Orff Chimes from pianobook https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/orff-chimes/
    3. Bleass Omega FM synth, Windedchime preset under the Red Sky Lullaby preset pack IAP

    That’s for sharing this! Don’t have those packs yet but they sound great 👍🏻

  • VmusicVmusic

    Thank all of you. It's very decent of y'all!!!!

  • HotStrangeHotStrange

    @Vmusic said:
    Thank all of you. It's very decent of y'all!!!!

    Pun intended?

  • VmusicVmusic

    @HotStrange absolutely. I am excited about Decent sampler.

  • HotStrangeHotStrange

    @Vmusic said:
    @HotStrange absolutely. I am excited about Decent sampler.

    Enjoy! There’s so much good stuff on Pianobook that it’s almost overwhelming.

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