New: Aegean Symphonic Orchestra Soundfont Sf2

Thank you! I do intend to run it through the Tchaikovsky test to see how it turns out.

As far as I've seen so far, most of the instruments have what seems to be a metallic (or echo?) sound to it. Perhaps this is reverb? I'm not sure. When I listen to the entire symphonic orchestra it sounds good.

In the hall of the mountain King did pretty well: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10WnvNtGq4tXfyTiUtmo-Cxvcxlrs9QgS/view?…

Here's a suggestion, for each of the String sections, add a "Solo" articulation, so that way should the composer desire a "Solo" within the section, an extra staff doesn't have to be added.

I'd love to try your soundfont with Musescore but ... If I follow the link to Google Drive I can only download a file: "ASO-sf2_2.7z which I cannot open. Changing the extension to "zip" or "sit" doesn't help.

I tried out this SoundFont, and it sounds AWESOME!!! I would definitely say that the samples came from Virtual Playing Orchestra, No Budget Orchestra, Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra, etc.

Can someone explain how to use the aso-instruments.xml file. The last time I used a file, I ended up with channels for both the default xml and the added xml file every time I added an instrument (so for example every flute was defined twice in the mixer).

I simply cannot figure out how to get this into Musescore. Please provide a step-by-step procedure. None of those provided mean anything to me. For example, I have no idea what to do with a 7z file. I've tried to download software to handle it, but it doesn't work. I've downloaded the other files and unzipped them, but I don't know what to do with them. There is no clear explanation.

I love your soundfont, but there's a little bit of a problem:
1. The strings are good, like the violin, etc.
2. Can you improve the sound quality of the piano?
It helps you enhance the soundfont you have.
3. No other piano?

Hello Ziya,

first of all, thanks for your efforts to provide such a complete soundfont.
I'm trying to use single note dynamics on timpani rolls, but it seems not working. Do you know why?

Enrico

After using this soundfont for quite a while on a variety of works, I hope the feedback/comments I provide is useful to those who are trying to improve it. I used it primarily for wind ensemble/concert band works, so I don't have much to comment about the strings.
First off, the single-note dynamics ability is truly amazing and certainly a pleasant surprise from the Sonatina Symphonic soundfont I had before, which did not support SND.
Most section ("Sect.") instruments for winds and brass sound rather synthesized, with the exception of the oboe. The solo banks are exceptionally realistic, so I used those instead.
The dark/sord. instruments were not practical for me, as the solo instruments I used were not overly dark or bright; I only used the sord. clarinet solo for bass clarinets for lyrical passages, as the bs. cl. can get too reedy. These took up a lot of the mixer space (Can we have a search function for the mixer?).
The sord. for brass is not equivalent to actual mutes; they're just darker, not brighter/"nasal"-ier. I haven't found a good muted brass font besides this harmon mute for trumpet (I think no SND): https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1133791
The articulations for WW and brass seem a bit heavy, but usually only during lyrical passages.
For a wind ensemble setting at least, I had to turn the woodwind velocities down (WW: 60-70, Brass: 100) to mimic the balance in a real setting. For orchestra, I'd probably need to keep the strings at least at 100 velocity. REVERB IS ESSENTIAL!
Timpani hits are good, rolls not so much; I have an excellent percussion bank with better rolls that I'm not sure where I sourced from...they were all SFZs.
The "Orchestra Percussion" is decent, but I find the "All Percussion" from SSO to be much better, mainly for its suspended cymbal rolls. The glockenspiel sounds great but seems to be at least two octaves higher than it should be? Might just be a notation setting error from my end.
No euphonium/baritone soundfont, but the dark solo horn is a surprisingly good substitute for me.
No saxophone soundfonts, also never able to find a good classical sax patch either.
Pipe organ is legendary, mainly because I can actually change the velocity through dynamics (unlike the one from SSO, I'm not sure why).
There's contrabassoon?!?! Heck yea! Though usually those are quite soft so sadly must be lowered in mixer.
I still use SSO for its percussion and its sustained french horns, which are amazingly brassy (but no SND) for those feature horn parts. Prob makes my mixer chug a lot but I get by.
To me, the "Old Grand Piano" is the only realistic-sounding piano option; seems to be the same as the "Concert Grand Piano" from SSO.
Choir is the usual meh, don't think there's any good choir patch (just held vowels) unless you pay $$ for something from Spitfire Audio or something.
Section strings and their extended techniques seem good, though I haven't tried any of the solo ones besides the one for string bass. I've sometimes had problems with solo strings glitching with the audio from SSO.
Overall, amazing free soundfont without its faults. But with some integration with other patches, I'm pretty satisfied with what I am capable of sound-wise. Can't wait to see what's next in this realm!

This is a wonderful soundfont, but I seem to run into a problem with some instruments(The glock and Timpani specifically) they work just fine in the Musescore app but seem to disappear in the export. Is there anything that could be done to fix this problem?

This is perhaps a rather specific request, but is it possible that you could make a patch for various instruments (at the very least woodwinds and strings) where it is the same as the normal patch, except just the sustain portion (i.e. cut out the attack)?

My idea here is that, and this isn't your fault in particular (to my knowledge no soundfont includes what I'm asking), but instruments that have the means to continuously transition from one to another can't really do so properly- every note sounds like it is initiating a new note. It would be as if a violinist played the entire piece spiccato. However, if the instrument were to have a patch that starts in the middle of the sample rather than the start, switching to that patch after the first note (and switching back after the sequence of notes is done) should theoretically sound perfectly nice and continuous; a true legato playback.

I have no idea whether this is feasible, of course, and no clue how much work it would be (let alone whether it'll actually work), but I think it has considerable potential to give a sound to playback that Musescore has never had before.

Hi, first of all thank you for your hard work on this lovely soundfont.

Does the soundfont needs to be the first in the synthesizer list for the staff text properties to work? Because I only managed to make the mute/arco/pizzicato/etc options work that way. If the soundfont is not the first it they became all bungled up, or is there any way to make it work that I'm missing?

Hi. I have just come across this thread.

Please accept my admiration for your efforts and persistence.

:)