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memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:08 am

Anyone know where you can find a Free Orchestral Vst?
like edirol but free

spacefox · Post by **spacefox** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:54 am

There are some soundfonts of suspect origin, that can ok (though not great), but you if you want legal and free, hunt down the samples based on the University of Iowa sampled instruments.

But don't expect much - sampling a full orchestra tends to be costly - so not many legal ones are available for free.

You can find some individual instruments: Cellofan is okay for cello (if you can find it), pianos there are plenty of and soundfont.it has a nice physical model of a trumpet.

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:21 am

Cool, thank you spacefox

dickiefunk · Post by **dickiefunk** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:14 am

Also check out DSK Strings, Brass and Akoustik Keys

DSK Strings

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2859.html

DSK Brass

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2479.html

DSK Acoustic Keys

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/3132.html

Also Obbo - Oboe VSTi

http://rekkerd.org/soundbytes-obbo-vsti/

These should get you started

metamorphosis · Post by **metamorphosis** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:54 am

Sfz + Squidfont orchestral soundfont is the best way to go for free, from my experience. Yes, legal. Absolute majority of soundfonts are.
Cheers,
Matt

spacefox · Post by **spacefox** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:42 pm

metamorphosis wrote:Sfz + Squidfont orchestral soundfont is the best way to go for free, from my experience. Yes, legal. Absolute majority of soundfonts are.
Cheers,
Matt

Don't know about squidfont's legality, but I wouldn't say most free soundfonts are legal. There are certainly a lot of them which were sampled from hardware workstation or are otherwise based on commercial samples.

String section is not something most people be able to samples themselves, and someone giving such samples away through something like sf2midi is rather unlikely.

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 3:15 pm

http://sso.mattiaswestlund.net

Miroslav you can pick up pretty cheap used as well.

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 3:20 pm

Also this, though a few of the soundfonts were argued to be shareware and not technically free. Papelmedia isn't around anymore though, is it?

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1200140

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 3:45 pm

Bigcataudio has some individual orchestral instruments ... cello, violin, viola, harp, double bass
They're vsti made with Maize Sampler.

Also check Karoryfer Samples and 99 sounds .

bigcat1969 · Post by **bigcat1969** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 5:40 pm

Thanks for the mention, thecontrolcentre. Here is a list I made 6 months ago that might be helpful.
http://bigcatlists.blogspot.com/2014/05 ... -type.html

valerian_777 · Post by **valerian_777** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 6:05 pm

arkmabat wrote:http://sso.mattiaswestlund.net

Miroslav you can pick up pretty cheap used as well.

You not realized that he asked 6 1/2 years ago? Did you?

bigcat1969 · Post by **bigcat1969** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 6:12 pm

That is funny. I didn't notice the original post was last decade.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Tue Sep 16, 2014 11:20 am

bigcat1969 wrote:That is funny. I didn't notice the original post was last decade.

Me neither ...

Free Orchestral Vsts?