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garret · Post by **garret** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 2:05 pm

Okay folks, here you go. The much heralded SJ Orchestral Strings... hosting courtesy of Kriminal.

http://kriminal.presetbank.com/sjo.rar
http://www.groovecell.com/music/SF/sjo.rar

This is a free soundfont, which used to be available at www.thesoundsite.net. That site is long gone... so get your copy now while the gettin is good. The download is 39MB, and it decompresses to 70MB.

The samples are quite decent, and include variations like Legato, Detache, Tremelo, Pizzicato, Arco. I think there's just one velocity layer, but I could be wrong about that... The soundfont has 48 instruments, including orchestral strings, piano, chromatic percussion (vibes, marimba, timpani), trumpet, french horns, flutes, and more.

I've RAR-compressed the soundfont so it's cross-platform (rather than using SFPack which is PC only).

PC users can grab a copy of WinRAR...
http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar34b2.exe

Mac users might try these:
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1053350629/1
http://homepage.mac.com/pnoriega/unrar.html

-Garret

TristezaOrange · Post by **TristezaOrange** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 2:10 pm

Thanks Garret+Krim!

I'll download it from a friend's DSL connection...

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 2:11 pm

Orchestral strings... mrrr! Many thanks to all involved.

Meffy

Bigg John · Post by **Bigg John** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 2:13 pm

thanx. luckily, i greedily stuffed my harddrive with soundsite samples before they dissapeared. but they are on a cd somewhere... probably in a box, in the shed, behind all the christmas stuff

thanx again

snooky · Post by **snooky** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:14 pm

The choir-aaahs are exXxelent!
the second patch is the best imo. Haven´t heard anything like that before!

Wopelka · Post by **Wopelka** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:19 pm

is this what you use in your songs, garret?

anyway, thanks a lot !

cheers

jeffn1 · Post by **jeffn1** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:24 pm

Thanks! This is sort of the poor man's GPO.

JeffN

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:27 pm

that's great of you guys to share.

Now if only I can find a place I can download some talent, I might be able to use em

Bigg John · Post by **Bigg John** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 6:33 pm

jeffn1 wrote:Thanks! This is sort of the poor man's GPO.

JeffN

see, everything works out just fine. vsampler should have no problem with these

Bigg John · Post by **Bigg John** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 6:34 pm

sickle666 wrote:that's great of you guys to share.

Now if only I can find a place I can download some talent, I might be able to use em

Hey Sickle, please share that link when you find it

garret · Post by **garret** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 6:39 pm

Wopelka wrote:is this what you use in your songs, garret?

anyway, thanks a lot !
cheers

Yep! Although now that I have Sampletank 2 I don't reach for soundfonts much.

-Garret

Arceo · Post by **Arceo** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:15 pm

Many thanks Garret/Kriminal, I really appreciate your efforts

Cheers

Arceo

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:19 pm

thank y'all very much!

SaviorNeeded · Post by **SaviorNeeded** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:48 pm

Thanks very much--good timing for my needs. I haven't had a chance to try them yet, but check out Glooper's song on the other thread ("Great Strings-----") for a very nice demo.

Tom

experimental.crow · Post by **experimental.crow** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:57 pm

'tis very nice ...
love the strings ...

SJ Orchestral soundfont (70MB) available