spotty
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Did an experiment yesterday. Cakewalk is offering is sample player SFZ+ for free download for the holidays. (go get it off their holiday sale page - its FREE).
I downloaded and installed it. Just for kicks, I took a single wave file from the ottel organ set. a middle C. I imported it into the sample player.
Now, I've been a long devotee of synthesizers and the option of synthesizing pipe organ stops. But even a single wave file loaded into SFZ+ and allowing it to pitch shift all the notes on the keyboard, still sounds better than the best synthesized stops I have created or heard.
I am convinced and won over. Sampling organs is the only and best way to go. And while of course having a separate sample file for each note (pipe) produces the best results, even a single sample file spread across the keyboard produces a pretty darn good result.
I am "converted".
I downloaded and installed it. Just for kicks, I took a single wave file from the ottel organ set. a middle C. I imported it into the sample player.
Now, I've been a long devotee of synthesizers and the option of synthesizing pipe organ stops. But even a single wave file loaded into SFZ+ and allowing it to pitch shift all the notes on the keyboard, still sounds better than the best synthesized stops I have created or heard.
I am convinced and won over. Sampling organs is the only and best way to go. And while of course having a separate sample file for each note (pipe) produces the best results, even a single sample file spread across the keyboard produces a pretty darn good result.
I am "converted".