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Emerald Tablet · Post by **Emerald Tablet** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:44 pm

Howdy folkys

I finally have a pc with enough power and space
I am looking for some good orchestral sound banks

Either free or fair priced

Do any of you guys have experience in using orchestral sounds and if so do you guys have some tips or links for me ?

Thanks

remco

sonarman · Post by **sonarman** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:32 pm

I used to use free soundfonts but since buying EW Silver I haven't needed them.
I think Silver is your best bet for a good value solution.

If money is tight then try searching sf2midi.com
From memory, there's Squidfont, Vienna Strings, Roland Orchestral Rhythm.

terragong · Post by **terragong** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:45 pm

http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesounde ... libraries/

ljones · Post by **ljones** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:07 am

My advise is to shy away from sf2 and wav altogether. Sft for the most part offer a lo-fi sound and wav is not flexible enough when it comes to editing sound parameters to achieve correct sound. I would lean in the direction of Hypersonic 2. Good Timpani's, Strings, Horns, Ethnic intruments and great combi's.

boybird · Post by **boybird** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:13 am

in the end all sound comes from waves of course.
if you want the philharmonia-waves, you go here
http://worldsamples.net/
for an easier download.

LOOPxDIGGA · Post by **LOOPxDIGGA** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:33 am

id say either the EWQL Symphonic Orchestra Silver Edition, as mentioned, or IK Miroslav Philharmonic Orchestra....in my opinion, both are equally useful....but each have stronger points than one another...

metamorphosis · Post by **metamorphosis** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:48 am

Meh. Soundfonts are fine, provided you know what you're doing- if you don't, then, well, you're f*ked.
Squidfont is good, with above proviso.

audio.android · Post by **audio.android** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:03 pm

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This is a little bit of a late response, but I should let you know that there are some really good orchestral instruments at samplebase.com. I work for the company, and personally, our orchestral stuff is some of my favorite of the products we offer. They are all sampled (with permission) from the Vienna Symphonic Library. Check out VSL's artist page on Samplebase to listen to the demos: http://samplebase.com/vsl (http://samplebase.com/vsl)

Hope this helps,
Jon

Emerald Tablet · Post by **Emerald Tablet** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:12 am

thanks a million guys

topaz · Post by **topaz** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:58 am

samplebase registration system is wacked, 10 minutes to get a download link.. then

"You requested this version of Satellite 47 minutes, 58 seconds ago."

just make a direct download link and stop the insanity.

audio.android wrote:This is a little bit of a late response, but I should let you know that there are some really good orchestral instruments at samplebase.com. I work for the company, and personally, our orchestral stuff is some of my favorite of the products we offer. They are all sampled (with permission) from the Vienna Symphonic Library. Check out VSL's artist page on Samplebase to listen to the demos: http://samplebase.com/vsl

Hope this helps,
Jon

audio.android · Post by **audio.android** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:58 am

Ah yeah, sorry for the inconvenience, Topaz. We had an issue last night with Satellite downloads due to heavy site traffic. We've since resolved the issue, so if you try again you should be fine.

Unfortunately, we can't provide a direct link to Satellite because of the way Satellite is personalized to your account.

boybird · Post by **boybird** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:24 am

i guess you are having another issue right now.

audio.android · Post by **audio.android** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:14 pm

Doh! Really sorry about that, Boybird. Yes, we had the same issue last night from 1:15am to 6:30am PDT. Everything is up and running again, and our web developers are currently working double-time to permanently resolve the issue.

We just announced our website on Tuesday, so it's been pretty crazy here ever since. However, we are determined to create a smooth user-experience. Thanks for the patience.

MoJoe · Post by **MoJoe** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:57 am

LOOPxDIGGA wrote:id say either the EWQL Symphonic Orchestra Silver Edition, as mentioned, or IK Miroslav Philharmonic Orchestra....in my opinion, both are equally useful....but each have stronger points than one another...

Agree, these are well worth checking out and reasonably affordable.

free orchestral sounds