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Subject: [OT]Re: Great Quailty Soundfonts!

Subject: [OT]Re: Great Quailty Soundfonts!

2002-01-03 by Kevin McNair

Sascha, et al.,
I took your advice and tried the Bismark bs-1. It worked fine, except some
large GM banks didn't play back correctly. It might be defective banks or
memory issues, or ? Anyway, I went to K-v-R to get some opinions, and one
reviewer said that VSamp was better for Soundfont playback. But when I
looked at the specs, it looked as if VSamp loads Soundfonts but doesn't
reproduce filter settings (similar problem to EXS). Is this the difference
between bs-1 and VSamp?
Regards,
Kevin
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> Subject: Re: Great Quailty Soundfonts!
> 
> <HELP@...> wrote:
>> I have commented on this several times. Critical filter/mod data does NOT
>> get converted. Only Translator (unless they've already done it) has plans
> to
>> convert this data. Only drums are useful for now when converted by the EXS
>> or HALion. All synth patches suck in my opinion when compared to how they
>> are intended to sound.
> 
> Well, I posted this allready:
> http://homepage.mac.com/bismark/products_english.html
> has a soundfont VSTi for both Mac and PC.
> I loaded some soundfonts into their demo and compared them with what they
> sound like when loaded into a real Soundblaster Live! card (which I had in
> my machine for a while). They sounded almost identical.
> So far the best choice to be SF2 compatible unless you have an SBLive (which
> I really can't recommend at all).
> 
> Regards,
> Sascha

Re: [exs] Subject: [OT]Re: Great Quailty Soundfonts!

2002-01-03 by HELP@MusicBootCamp.com

Come to think of it, I tried out the bs-1 and had similar problems. I just
didn't remember it when it was mentioned again. I'm going to check with
Rubber Chicken to see if they've included support for filter/mod data yet. I
own Translator and think highly of it. They have verbally committed to full
support of Soundfont translation to the EXS24 which, ideally, is where I'd
like the samples to be anyway. -Jer
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> From: Kevin McNair <kevinmcnair@...>
> Reply-To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 12:03:41 -0800
> To: <exs-users@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [exs] Subject: [OT]Re: Great Quailty Soundfonts!
> 
> Sascha, et al.,
> I took your advice and tried the Bismark bs-1. It worked fine, except some
> large GM banks didn't play back correctly. It might be defective banks or
> memory issues, or ? Anyway, I went to K-v-R to get some opinions, and one
> reviewer said that VSamp was better for Soundfont playback. But when I
> looked at the specs, it looked as if VSamp loads Soundfonts but doesn't
> reproduce filter settings (similar problem to EXS). Is this the difference
> between bs-1 and VSamp?
> Regards,
> Kevin
> 
> 
>> Subject: Re: Great Quailty Soundfonts!
>> 
>> <HELP@...> wrote:
>>> I have commented on this several times. Critical filter/mod data does NOT
>>> get converted. Only Translator (unless they've already done it) has plans
>> to
>>> convert this data. Only drums are useful for now when converted by the EXS
>>> or HALion. All synth patches suck in my opinion when compared to how they
>>> are intended to sound.
>> 
>> Well, I posted this allready:
>> http://homepage.mac.com/bismark/products_english.html
>> has a soundfont VSTi for both Mac and PC.
>> I loaded some soundfonts into their demo and compared them with what they
>> sound like when loaded into a real Soundblaster Live! card (which I had in
>> my machine for a while). They sounded almost identical.
>> So far the best choice to be SF2 compatible unless you have an SBLive (which
>> I really can't recommend at all).
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Sascha
> 
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