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KVR Forum [Instruments] » Archive » Instruments » March 2004 Index | KVRFA1
AuthorTopic: Calliope sound?
Doug Nelson
Posted: 23rd March 2004 15:51
I'm looking for a synth (not a sampler) that does a credible calliope sound? Has anyone done this?
WhiteNoise
Posted: 23rd March 2004 15:53
White Noise Additive has a calliope preset.. I can post some samples if you like.
jtxx000
Posted: 23rd March 2004 16:07
What's a calliope?
Xelebes
Posted: 23rd March 2004 16:14
Remember from GM sounds? That one.
dougsyo
Posted: 23rd March 2004 19:15
jtxx000 wrote:
What's a calliope?

here is an example. Here are several more.

It's sort-of like a player piano mechanism that drives a multi-instrument rig - like organ, glock, cymbals, drum, etc.

GM soundfonts or samples can cover some parts of it, I'm not sure if they could get the organ part quite right, tho.

Doug
dougsyo
Posted: 23rd March 2004 19:16
duplicate, oops.
Doug Nelson
Posted: 23rd March 2004 19:28
I guess they were the synths of their era Smile

I'm particularly interested in the steam variety. Here are some realaudio examples
http://www.steamboats.org/ecaliope.htm
hues
Posted: 24th March 2004 09:38
here's some more examples of calliope music.
DrApostropheX
Posted: 24th March 2004 10:14
The Calliopes (Ka-Li-O-Peez or Cal-ee-ohpes, whichever you prefer) I'm most familiar with are the steam calliopes used during the golden era of the circus (in North America, at least).

Most workstations (Sonic Synth included) have some decent "pipes" presets (meaning: presets with the word "pipe" in them) that can be tweaked to come up with a convincing calliope sound (increase the white noise, if nothing else). I can't believe there aren't any decent soundfonts of steam calliopes out there, though.
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