Can a fella get a sound font?

Using Zynthian
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http://www.synthfont.com/links_to_soundfonts.html

As an example…

I know I’m going to be on the hunt for the best SFZ, SF2, and GIG files available for free on the internet. I wouldn’t have expected to find the above, and it has a plethora of links.

Looks like we really can just drop these into the Zynthian-my-data directory and load with the appropriate engine, which is honestly one of the most killer parts of this project.

Add your favorite soundfound here!

Any body have a good 70s funk (think Stevie Wonder here) Harpsichord or Clavinet sample they like?

I find the options for Fender Rhodes to be quite sufficient in the canonical Gorgona image, especially using MOD-UIs setup.

This is a bit weirder–anybody have a good Mellotron soundfont? I mean like beginning of Starberry Fields?

As a musician, this is where it gets REALLY interesting :wink:

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Actually–the MOST killer part is being able to add an entirely new engine, lol. Forgot to mention that.

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Really? I cannot get enough of them :slight_smile:
My absolute favorite Rhodes sound is the mda-EPiano. It is nearly my original Rhodes :slight_smile:

Thanks for your link! An absolute fantastic collection! But I don’t know any (good) “free” Clavinet or Mellotron sounds… I have some on very old AKAI sampler CDs - but no free sounds :frowning:

Regards, Holger

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Yeah my phrasing was strange–I’m trying to say I LIKE the built in samples in the Gorgona image …

But I’m greedy :wink: :wink: :wink:

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http://sonimusicae.free.fr/blanchet1-en.html

This looks good for Harpsichord. I haven’t heard it yet, but it’s a real sample from a real old Harpsichord… depending on the time/energy they used, it might be awesome.

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… or my english :wink:

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This is the only Mellotron that i have found

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So… I just SSHed into my zynthian dev box, used wget to download the above RAR, unrarred it into /zynthian/zynthian-my-data and then immediately found it under FluidSynth. I started playing right away and was so so so extremely happy.

Thank you so much! @videobelu and @C0d3man !

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Hi,
this seems to be a nice mellotron:

http://download.linuxsampler.org/instruments/vintage/TaijiguyGigaTron.tar.bz2

Greetings,
Martin

Edit:
In order to get *.GIG working one needs to place them into a subfolder in the
/zynthian/zynthian-my-data/soundfonts/gig
directory. Instrument is changed by using keyswitches located at the lower octaves of the keybord.

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hey dude, I would also be interested in this mellotron. Would you be so kind and upload it again?

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I this is the new link

Regards

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Hi @videobelu!

Perhaps you can upload these soundfonts to “Musical Artifacts” and make it available from the webconf tool …

Regards,

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thanks for uploadin! But I can not make it work yet. Do you put in the sf2 folder? Where in Zynthian would it have to show up?

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unzip it and use webconf to import the .sf2 files

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Now also on musical-artifacts

https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/500/Mellotron.rar

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Hm, but as rar…need to change webconf…

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But there is no unrar installed. not yet?
Or wouldn’t it be better to use polyphone and build one sf2 file with all sounds?

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Sorry i don’t know how to use polyphone…and my only way is to pack all sounds together

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It’s quite easy. Just drag and drop the presets.
But I did it already:

Now we need to exchange the file in the musical-artifacts database.
Are you able to do this?

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@lfz
Lucas, maybe you can help us :slight_smile: