soundfonts and sampletank?

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hey so i was wondering because i have zero soundfounts, i dont use em, because i have sampletank, but do you guys if you have a soft synth, st, gigastudio, hypersonic whatever it is do you also use soundfounts with your soft synth while making beats
 
There are a few soundfonts I use a lot, I use sfz+ (vsti) in Cubase to load soundfonts.
 
Thing with beatmaking is after so long you start developing your go to sounds. And several of mine are soundfonts, I have some pizzicato strings, brass, effects, synths, and ethnic sounds that I use. I bought a set off Ebay that had some hot ethnic sounds, and I bought a bunch of sample CDs and translated them to soundfonts.
 
see i was thinking with having sampletank i would have a lot of good sounds, and i do but its like i want more, cause i love sampletank, a lot you can do with it but i can see if you get tired of the sounds after a while...and with the soundfonts are there any of the better ones free?
 
to me the free ones aren't worth it unless you have a lot of time on your hands.Takes all day to download a bunch, then you only like very few. I would just look for a huge set on ebay and sift through that. Or you can get a bunch of cool sets through file sharing.
 
xtrordinare said:
hey so i was wondering because i have zero soundfounts, i dont use em, because i have sampletank, but do you guys if you have a soft synth, st, gigastudio, hypersonic whatever it is do you also use soundfounts with your soft synth while making beats
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Absolutely. I have some soundfonts that get used constantly. Next to Virtual instruments, soundfonts are the most important thing I've ever come across for virtual music making. I have a guitar soundfont that's so useable, that I've often considered trying to find the guy who made it and thanking him for it. I also have a Strings soundfont that just drops itself into my mixes with little to no effort. So yes, I use Hypersonic and soundfonts in everything I do.
 
MadScience said:
to me the free ones aren't worth it unless you have a lot of time on your hands.Takes all day to download a bunch, then you only like very few. I would just look for a huge set on ebay and sift through that. Or you can get a bunch of cool sets through file sharing.
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You just described every set of sounds I've ever acquired, either through purchasing or by freely downloading them off the net. I bought Sonic Synth and Sonic Reality refills and it was nearly all garbage in my opinion. tons of sounds, mostly garbage with literally 1 or two useable jewels in there. I downloaded gigs upon gigs of soundfonts and went through them one by one. I have some very good ones, most are wack or even poorly constructed, but some are jewels. That's life and the way you get your sounds has no bearing on the quality of what you get, but if I download a piece of crap for free, at least I'm not mad that I bought the piece of crap, as in the case of Sonic Synth.
 
yeap, definitely,

nowadays im mostly using soundfonts and hypersonic combo, and sometimes pro53, vanguard & absynth.

absynth is a cpu killer tho, even wit a high buffer i still get crazy delay


anyways, yea a lot of my favorite instruments are soundfonts, but you have to add good fx's on it tho, cause most of the time the samples will be dry.

gotta love that steinway grand piano
 
so im coming to find out that soundfonts are def important, but can u load them into st?
 
xtrordinare said:
so im coming to find out that soundfonts are def important, but can u load them into st?
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Sampletank and soundfonts are not related or connected in any way and sampletank cannot play them. Sampletank has it's own propriatary format that it plays. Soundfonts (SF2) are played by pretty much all of the major samplers and specialized VSTi soundfont players. SFZ and Jeskola XS-1 to name a couple well known ones. So it's even better for you, they're easy to get and easy to use.
 
what host are you using? fl has a soundfont player worth buying because you can just right click soundfonts from the browser and they go to the player. That's if you're using FL.
 
MadScience said:
what host are you using? fl has a soundfont player worth buying because you can just right click soundfonts from the browser and they go to the player. That's if you're using FL.
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Yeah, but it does suck. It doesn't have even the most basic features to adjust the sounds. I have it and I never use it.
 
it's good to use when you scroll through sounds, otherwise you're dragging and dropping every single one. I just use it to browse, then when I settle on one I put it into a better player.
 
MadScience said:
it's good to use when you scroll through sounds, otherwise you're dragging and dropping every single one. I just use it to browse, then when I settle on one I put it into a better player.
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You're saying you're using a soundfont player to preview sounds? Oh I get it, you're previewing "soundfonts". I'm thinking that you're saying that you're previewing ordinary wave files or something.

Yeah, I mostly use the Jeskola XS-1 which has a pretty clever way of handling soundfonts. After loading a soundfont, all soundfonts in that same folder are accessible from the XS-1 interface.
 
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MadScience said:
to me the free ones aren't worth it unless you have a lot of time on your hands.Takes all day to download a bunch, then you only like very few. I would just look for a huge set on ebay and sift through that. Or you can get a bunch of cool sets through file sharing.
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yeah i got some soundfonts on my p2p, sounds really good, even some ones i got from hammersound, its cool, works good, thanks again for the info
 
I use Extreme Sample Converter to convert libraries into Soundfont. Gigastudio, Sampletank, etc. I even make my own using Awave Studio. When making drumkits, grab a breakbeat and load it into Recycle and chop it up. Save it as a soundfont & it is mapped across your midi keyboard.
 
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