'Classical' saxophone sound font?
I arrange music for small wind ensembles and find the standard generated audio for clarinet quartet and wind quintet from Musescore/Windows 11 adequate. However, the saxophone quartet sound is very poor for my purposes. There is way too much vibrato and the sound is too harsh for my more 'classical' arrangements.
How can I generate a better saxophone audio 'recording' from Musescore? Is the playback sound customisable in Musescore? Do I need a new saxophone sound font? If so, where can I find one and how do I install it?
Many thanks
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Hi,
You could try this one, among the ones i have it is the only "dry" one, without effects, but maybe still a little harsh for classical music ?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SEK3GxW3oO61gQh4sNK7_pXdvFkltMy1/view?…
In reply to Hi, You could try this one,… by Bedjka
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In reply to dead link by Lenwë Sáralondë
You can also try the saxophones in Muse Sounds in the MuseScore 4 beta - these are quite "classical" sounding (although, not necessary "dry").
In reply to You can also try the… by Marc Sabatella
Hi Marc. I asked the original question so pleased to hear that there may be some more 'classical' saxophone sound fonts in Musescore 4 Beta. Will they replace the existing saxophone fonts or be additional ones? Also, how stable is the Beta? Feel free to point me to a link.
In reply to Hi Marc. I asked the… by HughL60
Muse Sounds isn't a "soundfont" - it's a whole new synthesis engine with pretty incredible degrees of realism. See the Announcement forum for details. The beta is more than stable enough to test, which is its purpose - so people can test and then provide feedback via the channels mentioned in the announcement. Although, the nightly builds are more up to date and always contain more bug fixes, even if they also might introduce some new bugs occasionally. You can find these by clicking Download above on this page, then Software, then scrolling down to the bottom of the page to see the section on development builds, is always more up to date.
But, again these are intended for testing and providing feedback, so by definition, they aren't considered final yet.
here is a rough mapping for a saxophone soundfont (some 200Mb). i am not very interested in saxophones, so i never took the trouble to edit it, but maybe there is some noise to your liking.
be quick to download it; i need that cloud for something else.
regards bottrop
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eIZseEB3fR5fQ6_ggE194CVmmWtNRnbV/view?…
In reply to here is a rough mapping for… by bottrop
Dead link too :(
In reply to Dead link too :( by Lenwë Sáralondë
i just dropped some SAX at Polyphone\Soundfonts
have fun, bottrop
In reply to i just dropped some SAX at… by bottrop
Thanks!
I've got a set of Alto and Tenor Saxophones in this set:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iQThf6xsFeXDv4gwHIf90hJKVMtJUogu/view?…
The Alto Sax is 3 velocity layered and sounds quite nice over the velocity range.
The Tenor Sax is 2 velocity layered and not quite as detailed.