Symphonic Sounds - update 13/10/2019

• Oct 13, 2019 - 01:29

I would like to share some edits I've made in this SoundFont to make it possible to work with Single Note Dynamics (SND). It is a work in progress, but it is already usable. The updated file can be downloaded from: https://www.4shared.com/file/t0wqcR_Vea/Symphonic_Sounds.html
Pleas tell me if you have issues in downloading or using this file.

I know – clouds are not an appropriate place to share, files there are usually not so safe there. Another problem is with versioning: sf2 files are a big pack of many instruments. If people perform updates and share them, it's hard to track and merge all updates together. A good solution for these both problems would be GitHub, for example, but I only did a tiny part of the development, so I'm not sure if I could start a repository there so everyone could contribute. But SF2 files are also not as good as SFZ files for opensource projects.

Details:
I basically created new presets and configured them to operate with MIDI Continuous Controller 2 (CC2). There is no new instrument or sample in this pack. But I had to change some parameters on some instruments to make, for example, fake velocity layering on cc2 (cc2 layering, actually ;) ) possible. But it doesn't affect the original instruments. Some instruments I didn't consider because of poor quality of the samples, but rare instruments (like Eb Clarinet, Euphonium, Flügelhorn) I included regardless of the quality. I still want to include the Alto Flute, but it has some defect samples I'll try to repair manually later.

Whenever I update something I'll post it here. Please do it as well :)

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• Apr 5, 2020 - 22:33

Either you put the file in your MuseScore folder, which should be: Documents/MuseScore3/SoundFonts
Or you leave it in another folder and add it to the search path: on MuseScore edit -> preferences -> General tab -> Folders section -> SounFonts – click on the pencil and add the search path.
I think that either way you have to restart MuseScore. To load the file, go to view -> synthesiser and add it on the tab Fluid.

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• May 10, 2020 - 20:49

Another question. When I use the pizz in the string instruments, instead of the pizz sound it sounds like brass or something like that, What do I have to do to make it not sound like this?

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• Mar 18, 2021 - 23:43

This sound library is not GM compatible. My suggestion is to use alongside MuseScore General HQ and perhaps others, keeping MuseScore General HQ always at the first position in the synthesiser (Fluid tab) to avoid having to set up all patches in mixer again. Then you can manually choose in the mixer which instruments will have a sound from this pack.

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• Oct 30, 2020 - 12:00

Thank you for this great soundfont, but i have a weird problem with it. When i open a project the playback wont work at first. I have to click on a note to have that particular instrument function with the playback. That means I have to click on notes from every single instrument in the partiture so I can hear the full playback. Do you know what might cause that?

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• Mar 18, 2021 - 00:00

New update (18/03/2021): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I0Vq21jdM1coorSS0VycKmuQMcUjI1Gq/view?…

A new cc2 variant for most wind instruments using 1 layer and low-pass filter with cutoff frequency linked to cc2, instead of 2 faked velocity layers. The new variants are named cc2f.
Advantages:
- Much better quality for wind instruments, especially some brighter ones, like clarinet, English horn and all the brasses, especially the French horns. I didn't do for strings and other instruments because it generally doesn't work well with them. For some instruments, the results are not so good because the samples were recorded too much piano – so there is no much to do.
- Better dynamic linearity.

The drawback is that it might be a bit more processor consuming. So, I kept both versions there.

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• May 31, 2021 - 14:20

Hello, thank you for this great effort to make this soundfront! I have downloaded it!

I have one issue and I don't know what to do: when I download and open it, it asks to install the sound front, which I hit yes. But afterwards, when I check the synthesizer under fluid, it isn't there. Usually it would display a text box that says "soundfront finished installing, please go to synthesizer to use it" but that screen hasn't appeared at all. What should I do to solve this? Thank you

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• Jul 1, 2021 - 19:57

Hi, I never used that option "install sound font". What I do is the following: when you go to Edit --> Prefrerences…, on the tab General on field Folders there is one named SoundFonts. Click the pencil and edit the list of folders where MuseScore should look for SFZ and SF2 files. If you place your SF2 in one of those folders listed there, MuseScore will find it. I think this is infallible. Try it and enjoy!
Cheers!

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