Hi guys.
I am a soloact that uses midi backing tracks. I have a JV1010, and it has done a fine job for a couple years now, but I am growing tired of the sounds. When I setup one of my midi files to run in sonar and tell it to use some of my soundfonts, the soundfonts sound so much more *real*, like a band of real instruments. The JV sound are kinda fake, not sure how to describe it, but they sound too proccessed or something, like the instrument frequencies don't mesh well in a multi channel song. The soundfonts are real samples, and I have some nice ones, even Akai sampels rendered down to soundfonts. Damn, I want to use some *real* sounding samples. hee's a few questions.
Are there any other options that use real samples like soundfonts that I could use live?
Are there any modules out there that will give a more full and real sounds? What about the Motif stuff?
I thought about recording all my midi songs through soundfonts into MP3 files, and save each Sonar song as a project, and then Each song would be a Sonar project that has an MP3 in it, and I would still be able to use my midi tracks in sync, which control my Digitech vocalist, which I need for my shows. Needing the vocalist means I will still need to sync to midi. Will Sonar use MP3 files? I am thinking I could load up a midi file, setup some good samples to use for it and record it to another track in Sonar, then mute the midi tracks, and only have my vocalist midi track along with the mp3, and save as a project, then move the project over to my laptop (Pentium 2 400 Thinkpad with 250 megs ram). I wouldn't be able to use wavs, cause that would get way too big when you are talking about 100 songs.
The problem with all that is that this takes a massive amount of time cause I have all these midi files setup to use with the JV, so I would have to go through each one and set it back up to use with the fonts, and man, that's a job.
I wish some company would make a GM module with really good samples, like good soundfonts. Is there such a module? What exactly is the difference between my JV1010 and one of those akai samplers? Is a sampler what I am really describing here? If a comapny came to me and said, hey, we have a sound module with killer real samples, but all you get is one piano, one synth, one set of drums, one bass, (I am the guitar player), but nothing else, I would still take it, cause I could still have all the instruments in a normal band, guitar, bass, piano, synth, maybe a sax, and drums. It would be worth it if the sounds were big and real. I even have the bass & drum card for the Jv, but it still doesn't sound as reall as my Gold drums soundfont set.
Please, some company make a GM module that has some real sounding sounds. I don't need a thousand sounds, I only need the sounds that a real, normal club band has. Keys, bass drums, sax, and that's about it. I could take my midi files and make some killer backing tracks. I don't need ten drums sets, I need one really good one. I don't need forty pianos, I need one REAL good one. In a real band, my old piano player would play other parts if we didn't have the right instruments in the band. He might do a brass section with his organ, and it worked great. I would do the same thing with this dream module. I don't need a 10 piece brass section, and neither did my band I was in. We did just fine, and so would I with this dream module that I wish existed.
Sorry for rambling.
Jeff
I am a soloact that uses midi backing tracks. I have a JV1010, and it has done a fine job for a couple years now, but I am growing tired of the sounds. When I setup one of my midi files to run in sonar and tell it to use some of my soundfonts, the soundfonts sound so much more *real*, like a band of real instruments. The JV sound are kinda fake, not sure how to describe it, but they sound too proccessed or something, like the instrument frequencies don't mesh well in a multi channel song. The soundfonts are real samples, and I have some nice ones, even Akai sampels rendered down to soundfonts. Damn, I want to use some *real* sounding samples. hee's a few questions.
Are there any other options that use real samples like soundfonts that I could use live?
Are there any modules out there that will give a more full and real sounds? What about the Motif stuff?
I thought about recording all my midi songs through soundfonts into MP3 files, and save each Sonar song as a project, and then Each song would be a Sonar project that has an MP3 in it, and I would still be able to use my midi tracks in sync, which control my Digitech vocalist, which I need for my shows. Needing the vocalist means I will still need to sync to midi. Will Sonar use MP3 files? I am thinking I could load up a midi file, setup some good samples to use for it and record it to another track in Sonar, then mute the midi tracks, and only have my vocalist midi track along with the mp3, and save as a project, then move the project over to my laptop (Pentium 2 400 Thinkpad with 250 megs ram). I wouldn't be able to use wavs, cause that would get way too big when you are talking about 100 songs.
The problem with all that is that this takes a massive amount of time cause I have all these midi files setup to use with the JV, so I would have to go through each one and set it back up to use with the fonts, and man, that's a job.
I wish some company would make a GM module with really good samples, like good soundfonts. Is there such a module? What exactly is the difference between my JV1010 and one of those akai samplers? Is a sampler what I am really describing here? If a comapny came to me and said, hey, we have a sound module with killer real samples, but all you get is one piano, one synth, one set of drums, one bass, (I am the guitar player), but nothing else, I would still take it, cause I could still have all the instruments in a normal band, guitar, bass, piano, synth, maybe a sax, and drums. It would be worth it if the sounds were big and real. I even have the bass & drum card for the Jv, but it still doesn't sound as reall as my Gold drums soundfont set.
Please, some company make a GM module that has some real sounding sounds. I don't need a thousand sounds, I only need the sounds that a real, normal club band has. Keys, bass drums, sax, and that's about it. I could take my midi files and make some killer backing tracks. I don't need ten drums sets, I need one really good one. I don't need forty pianos, I need one REAL good one. In a real band, my old piano player would play other parts if we didn't have the right instruments in the band. He might do a brass section with his organ, and it worked great. I would do the same thing with this dream module. I don't need a 10 piece brass section, and neither did my band I was in. We did just fine, and so would I with this dream module that I wish existed.
Sorry for rambling.
Jeff