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Dark Solarium · Post by **Dark Solarium** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 11:55 pm

Good afternoon

i'm searching for a free medieval music Soundfonts source, does anybody knows a good website or websites? i need medieval percussion essentially

I have Edirol's Orchestral VSTi, but that's for classical music, is there something equivalent for medieval music too?

thanks!

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 7:59 am

Dark Solarium wrote:i need medieval percussion essentially

Search then for samples of a bodhran or simular primitive drum that's still in use.

Dark Solarium · Post by **Dark Solarium** » Sat Oct 12, 2013 4:46 am

Hi, how are you?

well, what i need is percussion like the ones on Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall music. I know i can find good things like Era Medieval Legends VST, but that's a lot of gigabytes and the price is too high, $219.00. To me a small set of soundfonts like 40/50mb is ok and free if possible, if the sample quality is good, that's even better. Thanks anyway!

zorniko · Post by **zorniko** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 2:42 pm

Do you know the exact names of the instruments you're looking for?

coincidental · Post by **coincidental** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 3:37 pm

Sounds like you're after nakers, tambours, side drums, frame drums and maybe early timpani. The Era collection sounds good, as does Soniccouture's Conservatoire Collection, but as you say they both have price tags attached (though you might save a little by bidding for them in the Charity Auction!)

One thing that does spring to mind is that some of the 80s/90s romplers had quite a bit of percussion, and some of that would have done the job for you. I'd happily sell you my old MR Rack with the World expansion, which still sounds great, but if soundfonts is the format you're after I see that Digital Sound Factory have the MR collection, which includes all the ethnic percussion, and as an alternative the samples from the E-Mu Planet Earth. Can't be sure what you want is in there, but the price tag isn't too steep and you can often find discounts and sales as well.

HTH

bob bobwood · Post by **bob bobwood** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 9:35 pm

Whilst it's probably not what you were looking for it's perhaps useful for others who want to start making mediaval music. It features Symphony Hall Bank GM soundfont;

sorohanro · Post by **sorohanro** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 11:38 am

1 - DSK World Strings http://www.dskmusic.com/dsk-world-stringz/ for Celtic harp and Turkish oud.
2 - Independence Free http://pro.magix.com/en/independence/in ... .1013.html for frame drums, tambourine and other percussion instruments.
3 - Soni Musicae freebies http://sonimusicae.free.fr/accueil-en.html for some awesome harpsichords and organ (salon organ, not church organ).
4 - RecSoprano http://tekit-audio.com/products/instruments/recsoprano/ a soprano recorder.

All those are free, so just grab and use.

Karmacomposer · Post by **Karmacomposer** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 12:43 pm

Look for the R.A.W. Samples by Herman Whitkam. They are free and very high quality. His ethic instruments were amazing.

Mike

irvg · Post by **irvg** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 1:03 pm

google doesn't return anything for "R.A.W. Samples by Herman Whitkam"

Katzenjammer · Post by **Katzenjammer** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 1:47 pm

Herman Witkam samples are on longer available for free and they aren't allowed to be distributed.

Dark Solarium · Post by **Dark Solarium** » Fri Oct 18, 2013 2:02 am

Thank you all for your time!

i'll see all those links and suggestions. Hugs!

Dark Solarium · Post by **Dark Solarium** » Fri Oct 18, 2013 2:39 am

zorniko wrote:Do you know the exact names of the instruments you're looking for?

Hi Zorniko

the ones coincidental wrote:

nakers, tambours, side drums, frame drums and timpani. Lute, hurdy hurdy and other instruments are also welcome. Thanks!

Rahere · Post by **Rahere** » Thu May 02, 2019 2:15 am

I likely could record my Thomann nakers at some point - what does it take to produce a VST from them?
You can tell I play percussion - I was once sworn in by the City Magistrates of Chester as being authorised "to perform lewdly" on them, in the streets of the said fair City, without let or hindrance from the Police, for a year.
Other instruments may follow.
Please drop me a note to my username at mail stop com

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Thu May 02, 2019 6:27 am

Best is to create a Sfz and/or Kontakt library...

Rahere · Post by **Rahere** » Thu May 02, 2019 6:49 am

Thanks, I've been working in pure voice since just before Kontakt came in. At least the SFZ format remains the same. I presume I can convert .wav to Kontakt - any preferred tools, please?

Free Soundfonts for Medieval music / VSTi