The team at Virharmonic have produced some free beautiful violin instruments, they call it the Violin Freebie, all you need is the free UVI player to host them. All articulations are chromatically sampled. Pizzicato: Four dynamic layers from soft pp to harsh ff with 4 round robins. An infinite series of free software instruments, made by musicians and sampling experts in London, for anyone, anywhere. Presented in our own plug-in, they are easy to use, and compatible with any DAW. And in case you missed it — they're all free. The 1.6.2 version of ValhallaRoom is provided as a free download on our software library. This program is an intellectual property of Valhalla DSP, LLC. Our built-in antivirus checked this download and rated it as 100% safe. The latest setup package takes up 2.2 MB on disk.
Back in 1998 or so, the popular Sound Blaster series of audio cardsreceived an upgrade (the Sound Blaster Live) that turned it intoa sampler – a musical instrument that basically plays pre-recorded notes,often sounding more realistic than the synthesizers that were popular then.The format used for instrument samples is called SoundFont andthe file extension is .SF2.
In the following years the SoundFont format became tremendously popular.
Maybe I am wrong, but I feel the SoundFont community is dying slowly.I myself have switched to free software and Linux (and I know someopen source software can use SoundFonts to a certain extent),but I still keep my old SoundFonts here so people can download them.
I wish a strong community would form to create and share opensamples (in various formats), using liberal Creative Commons licenses,but as of 2012 I don’t think it has happened yet.
Searching for free, high quality sounds on the net remains afrustrating experience.
All SoundFont loaders allow you to load layers of SoundFonts.Therefore, it is a good idea to load a nice small all-purpose GM bank and thenbetter specific instruments on top of it. With this purpose in mind,the following patches are already assigned to the correspondingprogram numbers in the General Midi convention.
Filenames begin with the patch number. Easy!
Florestan’s Free Orchestral SoundFonts
Florestan Basic GM GS (3.3 MB) is your average general-purposeGeneral Midi bank with 128 different sounds,sampled from a Roland Sound Canvas module.
000 Florestan Piano (7.8 MB) is a bright piano,but much better piano sounds now exist out there.
- 5 small SoundFonts contains:
- 014 Florestan Tubular Bells (577.3 kB) – Realistic tubular bells.Adds a surreal “tubular bells glide” on bank 1, patch 14.
- 022 Florestan Harmonica (28.2 kB)
- 045 Florestan Pizzicato (87.7 kB) – Even now, probably the onlyfree pizzicato soundfont that sounds realistic in the whole range,with good resonant basses.
- 056 Florestan Trumpet Metallic (732.3 kB) – Not very realistic.
- 076 Florestan Contrabassoon (12.7 kB)
040 Florestan String Quartet (3.2 MB) contains solo violin, viola,cello and double-bass (patches 40 to 43). They are realistic for theirsmall size.
048 Florestan Strings (1.1 MB) is a mediocre-sounding string ensemble.
052 Florestan Ahh Choir (785.5 kB) is a very realistic and usefulmixed choir.
060 Florestan French Horns (4.1 MB) contains the heroic sound ofmultiple french horns at the unison. How many french horns? Who knows?Maybe 4... The samples come from a previous version of Fluid,a GM bank created by Frank Wen.
068 Florestan Woodwinds (1.6 MB) contains flute, oboe, english horn,clarinet and bassoon. They are realistic considering their small size.The oboe comes from Fluid, a GM bank created by Frank Wen.
070 Bassoon Ethan Nando (4.8 MB) is a professional basson – withkey-switching and a crisp attack of only 0.006 seconds – sampled byEthan Winer. Without touching the samples, I have added a mono versionto preserve polyphony. The original author even liked the idea.The mono version is at program 70.The stereo version is at bank 1, program 70.
Pizzicato Vst Free Downloads
Enjoy the downloads! If any files are down, please let me know.
Pizzicato Vst Free Torrent
Other SoundFont websites
You can send me links to your best SoundFont sites (if still any...).
- Hammersound is the largest and oldest SoundFont repository out there.
- JEUX is a fantastic pipe organ soundfont.