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On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Lorenzo  wrote:

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> I'de like to have some info/pointers on samples for classical music

> (especially orchestra) in the situations when one has to provide a

> 'virtual' performance.

>

> There are plenty of synths and stuff done with linux for linux, I myself

> use puredata extensively for electionic music, but this is a different

> dcenario.

>

> I've lately tried the linuxsampler stuff (qsanpler etc.), and was

> impressed by the freebie gig piano on the website, but it looks the gig

> format is quite dead at the moment, I wonder if there is a second hand

> market for those, as it looks they were very popular before tascam

> closed down the gigasampler thing.

> For classical music, searching around it seems that currently SoundFonts

> are the best supported form of samples on Linux.

> I'm not necessarily talking of free stuff: quality sampling is a

> laborious and skilful process and paying for good samples is fair enough

> for a (digital) musician, so I'm talking about support: in fact it seems

> that most packages are stand-alones for windows or mac.

>

>

> Best regards,

> Lorenzo.

Yeah, it's disappointing for those of us that were long time GS users

to see what happened Gst after it was bought by Tascam. Bad management

along with a bad economy took its toll and the long time sampler died.
Personally I would confuse the Gig format with the ability to use it.

I expect that Kontakt will support it as long as that product or a

successor survives. Kontakt is probably my next big purchase but I'm

not active enough right now to warrant the cost.
As for orchestral samples there are lots. Garritan makes a fairly low

cost player that actually gets bundled with some other products. I got

a copy with a recent Acid Pro update. In orchestral I don't think it

makes sense to go cheap. If you have (very) deep pockets then look

into the Vienna suites.
Good luck,

Mark

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