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[lowdown]

cheddatom, on Aug 25 2011, 11:49 AM, said:

I'd never actually heard of Sound Fonts. If I find I can write string parts then i'll start messing about with the sounds. My CPU usage is already at 80% on this particular song, so something "light" is what I need at the moment. Are Sound Fonts just as light as VSTis?

I have used Reason in the past with ReWire but that dominates my CPU too.

The Sound font player is very very light on CPU, lighter than a Synth. And easy to use.
Samples or Sound Fonts depend on RAM being Audio files, not CPU. So yep will be lighter on CPU.
There are hundreds & hundreds of free SF's on the net, just google. You can build up quite an impressive library,
And of course you can benefit from all the extra articulations, which will give you the authentic soundiing Orchestral sound.
Another free Sound Font player on the link OldG supplied. It is Multi timbral with 16 midi channels.
Sound Font player


I used to use sound fonts before going over to the Kontakt Sampler.
Kontakt meant i could use the large Orchestral Sample Libraries now available.


Garry

Edited by lowdown, 25 August 2011 - 11:16 AM.

[cheddatom]

Thanks for all the info Garry, i'll check it out.

We used to use Kontakt at uni which was loads of fun.

[lowdown]

Nice Compressor....

x32 & x64 bit....

Molot Comp




Garry

[lowdown]

Plenty of free VST's/VSTi/Sequencers / Notation / FX all in one place......
Check it out.

http://www.vst4you.com/

Garry

[lowdown]

Camel Crusher free.
http://www.camelaudi...amelcrusher.php

Alchemy player free, with one gig of sounds.
http://www.camelaudi...chemyPlayer.php

Both are excellent.

Enjoy

Garry

[lowdown]

Another load of stuff here.
Tonebytes.

http://tonebytes.com/


Garry

[velvetkevorkian]

Here's a nifty prepared piano VST

Edited by velvetkevorkian, 04 January 2012 - 10:30 PM.

[lowdown]

Free Sonimus EQ

If you want a very good warm EQ, try this one.
It makes a mockery of all those over hyped, over priced vintage emulators flying around.

http://sonimus.com/s...page/downloads/



Garry

[BottomE]

Thanks Garry

[lowdown]

Some excellent [Free] Impulse Response files here for your convolution Reverb.

http://www.samplicit...ulse-responses/


Garry

[51m0n]

lowdown, on 12 January 2012 - 09:44 AM, said:

Some excellent [Free] Impulse Response files here for your convolution Reverb.

http://www.samplicit...ulse-responses/


Garry

Yup they are superb, there is also a bunch of high end lexicon impulses out there if you search with the google.

All the Kit Richardson work I did made extensive use of these reverbs running in SIR (4 or 5 different verbs per song, up to 3 on the lead vocal alone), and the Bootsy Variety of Sound Epicverb vst.

Edited by 51m0n, 16 January 2012 - 09:52 PM.

[skankdelvar]

lowdown, on 11 January 2012 - 02:06 PM, said:

Free Sonimus EQ

Thanks Garry

[lowdown]

Nice free VST'i.
Nearly 250 meg of free sounds.

http://www.uvisounds...p?articles_id=8



Garry

[51m0n]

New Bootsy Variety of Sound free VST compressor with IM saturation:-

ThrillseekerLA

Try running bass through it and playing with the odd/even saturation alone. Then play with the compression, its a bonza bit of kit chaps!

[Wil]

Does anyone know of a good free Harpsichord VSTi?

[lowdown]

Some good free stuff here.
Blue Cat Audio...............
http://www.bluecatau...e_FreewarePack/


Garry

[paul_5]

Not strictly VSTs, as they're Pro Tools plugs, but the quality is great.
http://www.masseyplugins.com/#try

The demo versions won't save your settings as part of a session, but you can always make a note in the mix window.

[kieranfitz]

http://illformed.org/plugins/glitch/

Glitch VST
One of my all time favs for spicing up simple drum loops or anything!!!

[lowdown]

Blue Cat have a nice FX bundle [ x64 bit as well ]

http://www.bluecatau...e_FreewarePack/



Garry

[51m0n]

Some nice eqs...

http://www.j1000.in.rs/