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Them wrote:

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> tim hall wrote:

>

>> Over half of the soundfonts I've downloaded either don't work, sound

>> plain awful or consist of just one halfway decent sound, the palette

>> I'm looking for is quite limited, basically a decent fake orchestra

>> that will run comfortably in 192M RAM, with possibly some classic

>> keyboards (hammond, farfisa, vox, rhodes, wurly, mellotron type

>> stuff). i.e. the stuff that's hard to synthesise.

>

>

> If you find some decent Mellotron sounds, I'd be interested in hearing

> about it.  I've got a VST plugin with samples from a real Mellotron, but

> I've yet to get it working using libfst or vstserver.  I may just end up

> making my own samples of the samples (which are, after all, early analog

> samples of real instruments) and using them as soundfonts or something

> along those lines.  Of course, I can't redistribute them, since the

> samples from GMedia are copyrighted.

> 

If you're up for trying something new (I'm not a sound Font fan) you can

get a free Mellotron gig file at
http:www.worrasplace.com
(Look under 'Oldies'.)
and run it under QSampler, the GUI for LinuxSampler.
http://www.rncbc.org/ls/
(Build everything on Rui's LS page if you're interested in trying any of

this out.)
LS is all very much development software, and there are a lot of changes

going on right now so it may be broken, but maybe you'll get lucky. LS

is a Jack application and gerneally runs very well for me on most gig

files. There are still a few it really dies on but I cannot get the

developers to pay attention to those yet.
I use a different, for money, Mellotron gig file under QSampler and GSt,

but this free one is certain OK when buried in the right mix.
Good luck!
- Mark