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j_e_g · Post by **j_e_g** » Wed Jul 06, 2016 8:39 pm

"No Budget Orchestra" is a free, multisampled orchestra in sfz format. There's now a webpage for the orchestra, and it's packaged into one zip file for easier download.

http://nobudgetorchestra.net

Here's a demo I made:
https://soundcloud.com/j_e_f_f_g/dello-joio

bigcat1969 · Post by **bigcat1969** » Wed Jul 06, 2016 10:50 pm

Congratulations on getting your website up and running. That is sure a lot of instruments / sections once you list them all out. Well over 30 if my count is right. Between your orchestra, the Sonatina, the VSCO, the Karoryfer instruments, Piano in 162 and the Estate Grand, I think people might have more and better options for Sforzando than any other free platform in history. It hard to imagine an orchestral piece that can't be created with all these instruments.

brainzistor · Post by **brainzistor** » Fri Jul 08, 2016 11:33 am

bigcat1969 wrote:Congratulations on getting your website up and running. That is sure a lot of instruments / sections once you list them all out. Well over 30 if my count is right. Between your orchestra, the Sonatina, the VSCO, the Karoryfer instruments, Piano in 162 and the Estate Grand, I think people might have more and better options for Sforzando than any other free platform in history. It hard to imagine an orchestral piece that can't be created with all these instruments.

Free libraries are mainly limited by the lack of different articulations, if we skip the part concerning quality of samples.
Legato, staccato, then legato with hard attack, crescendo and pizzicato should be a must and these articulations are more than enough for sketching purposes and for some serious work.
Crescendo is mostly overlooked or maybe it's just me because I can't live without horns or trombones doing crescendo and raising tension followed with snare and timpani rolls.

Also, one of the best free strings library is Monster Staccatos by Cinematic Strings, but they abandoned it a couple of years ago and it can't be downloaded from their website anymore besides torrenting it from somewhere.
I fell in love with it from the first day of release, I'm still using it and I used it dozens of times in my compositions, it's my go to staccato strings.
Massive, big and rich sound, simply perfect for doing some cinematic music.

My knowledge of making SFZ libraries is decent and I was thinking of converting Monster Staccatos to SFZ several times throughout years, but what always turned me off is the amount of samples and it felt like "inventing hot water" because I used Kontakt for other libraries anyways.
I find it absolutely strange that no one converted it to SFZ already and that it's not spread over the internet because Monster Staccatos are plain and simple awesome when it comes to free libraries, much better than tons of other free stuff and you can bang them the whole day and not get tired and the best part is that they make crap library/instruments to sound better

Michael L · Post by **Michael L** » Fri Jul 08, 2016 11:47 am

Consider crowdsourcing the sfz conversion-- you don't need to do it all yourself! (and yes I will help).

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Fri Jul 08, 2016 11:56 am

I'd like to know in advance how big the download is. Could you put a notice somewhere?

ganym3d · Post by **ganym3d** » Fri Jul 08, 2016 12:00 pm

...about 650 MB...

SampleScience · Post by **SampleScience** » Sun Jul 10, 2016 1:48 pm

Any information regarding the samples? Where they were recorded, what gear was used, etc.

goldglob · Post by **goldglob** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 2:51 am

j_e_g wrote:"No Budget Orchestra" is a free, multisampled orchestra in sfz format. There's now a webpage for the orchestra, and it's packaged into one zip file for easier download.

http://nobudgetorchestra.net

Here's a demo I made:
https://soundcloud.com/j_e_f_f_g/dello-joio

I've downloaded the master package and update. I'm not sure exactly how to "Extract updates to the same directory as the master package"...I use 7zip...do I just place the update zip inside the already de-compressed nbo_0 folder then 'extract here' such that the extracted update folder sits alongside the NoBudgetOrch folder inside the master folder? Or do I need to go further down in the directory and somehow get the update files alongside or replacing their counterparts?

j_e_g · Post by **j_e_g** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 3:37 am

Just unzip the update on top of the master package, and choose to overwrite files.

Burzukh_Studios · Post by **Burzukh_Studios** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 8:42 am

thank you...........and yes sfz is king for the terminally broke (meself).

Burzukh_Studios · Post by **Burzukh_Studios** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 8:47 am

very well presented, well organized . seriously man, kudos !!

goldglob · Post by **goldglob** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 1:23 pm

j_e_g wrote:Just unzip the update on top of the master package, and choose to overwrite files.

I humbly say that I'm not understanding this.

I just get the unzipped update folder landing intact inside the nbo_0 folder on the same level as the NoBudgetOrch folder.
I suppose that I could unzip the update, look through it's contents, then manually move things (overwriting), but is there a way to achieve this as part of the actual extraction process?

SampleScience · Post by **SampleScience** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 8:30 pm

Where these samples come from? Did you record them yourself or are they public domain samples?

j_e_g · Post by **j_e_g** » Thu Sep 01, 2016 2:10 am

goldglob wrote:the unzipped update folder landing intact inside the nbo_0 folder

Seems your unzip program is automatically renaming conflicting filenames (not overwriting existing files). Turn that off.

goldglob · Post by **goldglob** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 12:46 am

j_e_g wrote:
goldglob wrote:the unzipped update folder landing intact inside the nbo_0 folder
Seems your unzip program is automatically renaming conflicting filenames (not overwriting existing files). Turn that off.

No, it's not renaming anything (err..the nbo_0 is the name of your master folder), but anyway, I just manually moved and replaced files..took a while...think I got it right...there's something simple about the unzipping I'm not getting here, but not to worry...the libraries sound great and the way you've organised them is excellent..great stuff.

"No Budget Orchestra" webpage