Were Do You Guys Get Your Instruments?

TennMusMakerAdam · May 30, 2010, 01:03:36

After a few months of struggling with the sucky instruments that you start out with in the Midi Library, I went and downloaded some better ones from a site called kiarchives. But listening to a few of the tracks here and it's clear you have better instruments (mine are over a decade old, some with questionable sound quality).

Could anyone tell me were I can find some free instruments that were actually created within five years of now, or at least during the 21st century.

Some of my instruments are very hard to work with, like my ensemble or violins. If anyone has the answer for this problem, your help would be appreciated.

psishock · May 30, 2010, 01:24:02

I mainly use professional commercial VSTis, but also some random good freewares too. If you're aiming for high quality modern sounds, VSTis are highly recommended. Synthesizers are really powerful and flexible tools in music. There are certainly a good number of excellent freeware ones, scattered over the net.
We have a nice topics about these stuff here on mpt central:
VST Effects
http://forum.openmpt.org/index.php?topic=331.0

VST Instruments
http://forum.openmpt.org/index.php?topic=332.0

You can also use samples in some cases, but additional works and applied (vst) effects, to enhance their sounding will be definitely required. If you just throw in the samples as they are, they will sound flat.

So basically your sounding wont really improve much with "superb samples", but mostly it will depend on your technology and sound engineering skills. With great engineering skills, you can make a crappy sample sound awesome. Still, samples are not really effective sounding-wise, because of their form and limitations. There is a whole profession behind all this for reason. ^_^

TennMusMakerAdam · May 30, 2010, 01:56:09

Thank you. This was very helpful.

uncloned · May 30, 2010, 02:07:57

Some soundfonts are still good.

http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/sfbank/

There are a few gigs of sf2's there.

The information on using them in OMPT is on this board.

Paul Legovitch · May 30, 2010, 08:06:23

Recently I've been successfully searching for free Kontakt builds that provides independent wav samples folders. They're recent and generally pretty good.
http://0on3.wordpress.com is an indredible source f.e.
Then the IT instrument format is a very good and underestimated (judging by the few answers here) one and it's not that hard to create very good instruments by mapping these samples and using envelopes and loops.

Saga Musix · May 30, 2010, 10:15:57

When not ripping from VSTis, I mostly use samples from the Waveworld torrent. Also, a great collection of free electronic drum samples is available at kb6.

AlisterFlint · May 31, 2010, 10:46:41

Quote from: "Paul Legovitch"Recently I've been successfully searching for free Kontakt builds that provides independent wav samples folders. They're recent and generally pretty good.
http://0on3.wordpress.com is an indredible source f.e

thanks alot..

Louigi Verona · June 03, 2010, 10:56:53

Quote from: "uncloned"Some soundfonts are still good.

http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/sfbank/

There are a few gigs of sf2's there.

The information on using them in OMPT is on this board.

Wow, Chris, this is a great collection! Where did you acquire it? Over the years?
Gotta get some.

I can also contribute several really good sf2s to your collection. Some of them are unique as I made them from AKAI soundbanks myself.

Saga Musix · June 03, 2010, 11:15:55

I just recently "donated" (can you still call this a donation? whatever, it helps to keep up the server and it's a damned good collection) to get all samples from samples.kb6.de. It's one of the best archives for electronic drum sounds - they have samples from more than 200 classic drum machines. I think I won't run out of drum samples for a while now.

uncloned · June 03, 2010, 12:38:06

Quote from: "Louigi Verona"
Quote from: "uncloned"Some soundfonts are still good.

http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/sfbank/

There are a few gigs of sf2's there.

The information on using them in OMPT is on this board.

Wow, Chris, this is a great collection! Where did you acquire it? Over the years?
Gotta get some.

I can also contribute several really good sf2s to your collection. Some of them are unique as I made them from AKAI soundbanks myself.

Basically yes, over the years, though my friend Evan contributed a few gigs himself.

Thanks LV - that is very nice of you - I would be most pleased to acquire more sf2's - drop me a line as to where I can download them.

Louigi Verona · June 04, 2010, 06:55:11

Quote from: "Jojo"I just recently "donated" (can you still call this a donation? whatever, it helps to keep up the server and it's a damned good collection) to get all samples from samples.kb6.de. It's one of the best archives for electronic drum sounds - they have samples from more than 200 classic drum machines. I think I won't run out of drum samples for a while now.

Donated as well. Waiting for their email %)

Louigi Verona · June 15, 2010, 06:03:24

They never sent an email.

Saga Musix · June 15, 2010, 07:03:41

Strange, since I suppose that the mail is sent automatically (to your paypal address, that is). Did you check your spam filters, or if your ISP rejected the mail? You might want to mail Kai about it.