Dorsetmike
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This could open up a whole new field/can of worms. I wanted to try and produce some of the John Stanley sonatas for Flute and continuo, the scores are available on IMSLP, albeit photocopies of old manuscripts, somewhat faded and brownish yellow with age.
I found some instrument sample sets at Sonatina Symphonic orchestra
http://sso.mattiaswestlund.net/download.html
Downloaded these and started work on the flute and violin samples the flute sounds OK, the violin less so, the attack and decay are obviously keyed whih detracts from the overall effect. I also had a quick try at the bassoon, that seems to work OK as well, so at a guess wind instruments should work fine, strings less so.
The samples consist of 4 notes per octave over the instrument range (saves file space for download) thus it was necessary to do some pitch shifting for which I used Audacity; notes for flute were A, C, D# and F# in each octave so it was necessary to do 2 semitone shifts per note, so C down to B and up to C# and so on through each octave, 45 notes total eventually; Loops and release cues added in SampleLooper and Loop Auditioneer.
This is the result, a 45 note flute sample set that will play in GO.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13949432/FLUTE2.rar
Having now got a full flute set, I saved it in the same folder as the Blanchet 1720 Harpsichord set.
http://duphly.free.fr/en/blanchet.html
Copy the Luth sur 8'_II stop folder to a new folder "harpsichordsolo" along with the Flute folder
Next I copied one of the Blanchet .organ files to the same folder and renamed it blanchetsolo.organ (or call it what you like); to keep things simple I decided to use the upper manual for the flute/solo instrument and one stop for the harpsichord on the lower,
I edited the organ file to use just the Luth and flute; I could have retained all the Blanchet stops and the Pedale extension, but went for simplicity.
I've attached a text version of the .organ file (MIMF said the organ file was invalid, so make a copy of any organ file rename it blanchetsolo.organ, open it, select all, delete, then copy/paste the txt file and save it, think that should work
View attachment blanchetsol.txt
This set up works for me in GO 2 and 3
If you have a midi application which will output to midiyoke1 the following should play, flute is set up as channel 1, harpsichord as channel 2
View attachment stanop1-1min.mid
I found some instrument sample sets at Sonatina Symphonic orchestra
http://sso.mattiaswestlund.net/download.html
Downloaded these and started work on the flute and violin samples the flute sounds OK, the violin less so, the attack and decay are obviously keyed whih detracts from the overall effect. I also had a quick try at the bassoon, that seems to work OK as well, so at a guess wind instruments should work fine, strings less so.
The samples consist of 4 notes per octave over the instrument range (saves file space for download) thus it was necessary to do some pitch shifting for which I used Audacity; notes for flute were A, C, D# and F# in each octave so it was necessary to do 2 semitone shifts per note, so C down to B and up to C# and so on through each octave, 45 notes total eventually; Loops and release cues added in SampleLooper and Loop Auditioneer.
This is the result, a 45 note flute sample set that will play in GO.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13949432/FLUTE2.rar
Having now got a full flute set, I saved it in the same folder as the Blanchet 1720 Harpsichord set.
http://duphly.free.fr/en/blanchet.html
Copy the Luth sur 8'_II stop folder to a new folder "harpsichordsolo" along with the Flute folder
Next I copied one of the Blanchet .organ files to the same folder and renamed it blanchetsolo.organ (or call it what you like); to keep things simple I decided to use the upper manual for the flute/solo instrument and one stop for the harpsichord on the lower,
I edited the organ file to use just the Luth and flute; I could have retained all the Blanchet stops and the Pedale extension, but went for simplicity.
I've attached a text version of the .organ file (MIMF said the organ file was invalid, so make a copy of any organ file rename it blanchetsolo.organ, open it, select all, delete, then copy/paste the txt file and save it, think that should work
View attachment blanchetsol.txt
This set up works for me in GO 2 and 3
If you have a midi application which will output to midiyoke1 the following should play, flute is set up as channel 1, harpsichord as channel 2
View attachment stanop1-1min.mid
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