The personal-computer version comes with SoundFonts that any Sound Blaster® Live! card (or any card capable of SoundFont technology) can open and allow you the user to play with your own external MIDI devices.
First off Spiro, I'd like to say that I'm very pleased with your REAL ACTUAL CONSTRUCTIVE criticism
Which is more than I can say of most anything I've ever asked on the web. PERIOD!
Hmmm, very interesting, but I'm not sure exactly what your trying to say here. I'm looking for a way to extract the samples used in the playstation midi-type file. If I wanted a basic choir I could have used the program I ran the song through. I'm pretty well versed in this already, and I know what you talking about perfectly, but exactly how does it pertain to my question? If your talking about some-how rigging an external midi device to read playstation samples, I'd like to know more about it! But if that's not your meaning then I'm at a loss.
Really all my question was is... Is there a way to get the recording of the choir from One Winged Angel separate from the rest of the song. Tangible, so that I can use it. Since playstation uses it's own sampling system, the choir samples are obviously stored in the file. (and because of that I can see why the there aren't a ton of lyrics)
But really thanks for your input!
Listen carefully to the battle song ask yourself, unsubjectively, if it sounds “realâ€.
The dynamics will need adjusting. Specifically with how the instruments are played. Right now, every instrument is as flat as they are in the original MIDI. Real musicians hit notes at different velocities and slightly off the exact beat tick.
Ahh, yes you hit the spot right there, but of course admittedly maybe I was a bit blunt to get my point across. Call it arrogence!
But I must say that I'm fully aware of dynamics and note pitch and also the sampling quality. While I certainly am exited!
I'm also very analytical and self-judgemental. Looking at my songs unsubjectivly is actually something I'm very persistent about. This is a stepping-stool, and a learning arc. Hardly a finished product in my eyes, yet I cannot deny my enthusiasm. I accept your point with a smile! Finally somebody that knows what the hell they are talking about! And alot more than me!
Soundfonts, I've never heard any that I liked, or anything that used them to the quality I'm looking for without dishing out allot of cash. I know the awesome ones sound great if I had money to spend on it! If you have any suggestions, please! I would be happy to look into it! (Ironically the reverb in the soundfonts creations I've heard is usually the thing that turns me off, too much, oversaturated)
As far as the reverb in the song is concerned, wow! I find it pleasing, but really what do I know? It's an attempt at mimicking and imitating the recordings of my favorite orchestral pieces. Which aren't by todays standards professionally recorded and mixed. I listen to the the local classical station quite often. I find this interesting! (and I'm powerfully invigorated by this)
If I really wanted to finish the fighting song though, I would not use grouped (Strings) or grouped (Brass) instrumental samples because they are not as pleasing as the right notes played from the right instruments. and of course I would use the exported high quality 320kb/s waveforms, and not the 128kb/s compressed lossy mp3's that are used to mix down. Not to mention the tweaking of the raw data to include natural vibrato, decay, pressure time, and velocity of notes... such things don't happen by themselves digitally... :sigh: The samples I use are actually taken from real life recordings of instruments, and more than one recording is used for any one instrument in the natural range it is to be played. The problem for me consist of my not agreeing with nearly all of the brass samples -_-
In any case, you obviously know more than I do! But I'm confident in my capibility, and just to let you know that I'm learning with every step! I have an open mind for suggestions, I'd like to see that example of digital music that sounds really real!
Well NeoS, threadjack accepted!
Awesome job man! How'd you go about getting it? Tweaking out the certain frequencies? That's always hard!
Mod Edit: You've already edited your post 4 times, so why did you double-post anyway?