Total Audio Question

[William Wallet]

Hey all,
In listening to Total Audio's music for Myth & Halo, a particular string sample has caught my attention several times. They use it heaps - I'm wondering where it's from and if it's commercially available? It's not especially brilliant, but if I were to ever make music for a Myth narration or something, I'd want a string sound that were similar to the old ones.

Cheers!

[capital]

Hey all,
In listening to Total Audio's music for Myth & Halo, a particular string sample has caught my attention several times. They use it heaps - I'm wondering where it's from and if it's commercially available? It's not especially brilliant, but if I were to ever make music for a Myth narration or something, I'd want a string sound that were similar to the old ones.

Cheers!

Feel free to shoot down... but why not email Mr. O'Donnel and ask him?

[William Wallet]

Heh I was going to, but I've had many Myth questions answered here (in detail sometimes) and figured I might as well try this place before pestering the guy.

[capital]

Heh I was going to, but I've had many Myth questions answered here (in detail sometimes) and figured I might as well try this place before pestering the guy.

3 things:

1)Grasshopper.

2)Play around with ur electronic keyboards settings, cycle thru all the combos, u might find it, I found something similar to myth music a while ago, but the keyboard i played it on it actually mine, so i have no more info.

[Oroboros]

3 things:

1)Grasshopper.

2)Play around with ur electronic keyboards settings

...I guess that makes me the third thing (ex-sound engineer and occasional muso here).

Sample libraries generally start with Korg and Roland and Akai (and several other reputable brands), and are commercially available.

If you have a Mac, you can download sound fonts into your musicware, MIDI the bejeezus out of them, throw some reverb on and you've got an orchestra.

But making an electronic instrument sound natural... The trick to it is having a critical ear to how the instrument sampled is usually played. You can obtain a beautiful sample of a single note of a slide guitar, for instance... but slide guitars don't play in discrete notes, you sliiide them to a point, give a little vibrato, tap a string somewhere else... It just plays differently to a keyboard or MIDI instrument.

A slide guitar's an extreme case (not as extreme as a theremin)... But making an electronic interface sound organic requires making short-cuts somewhere along the way.

It's not ALL about the quality of the sample.

-Oro

[William Wallet]

Aye, came across soundfonts earlier in my laboured searching. Haven't played with 'em yet. Truth be told I'd rather stick to guitar. But - sometimes you need strings.

[William Wallet]

Oh. Screw soundfonts. I thought I could extract sounds from 'em. That was a merry waste of my afternoon.