and making a sound with the same place of the finger and/or fingernail. small collections; sooo Amazing. I'm trying to achieve a more baritone clean jazz guitar sound with a moderate amount of reverb. additional note: Normally, movable scales and movable chords are played in a closed position. Thanks for the by cadiz1, @cadiz1 I understand by kazuma yamamoto. // like imitation, but so-so for now. I cant find the words to express my emotions.. Im almost crying.. "For now, Im not so satisfied with treble sounds, little too metallic." Billed annually at $39.99 View Official Scores licensed from print music publishers Download and Print scores from huge community collection ( 1,426,528 and growing) Advanced tools to level up your playing skills One subscription across all of your devices Essential Keys-SF-v1.3 (926mb) Designed to play well on the iOS app SoundFonts (B-Ray Software). Need by kazuma yamamoto. And Im not including open strings as you suggested. In reply to Ziya, ohhh.. thats very bad by kazuma yamamoto, OK! In reply to No, I wanted to say that if by Ziya Mete Demircan, All right !! // Of course if there are no other things you would like corrected. I used yellow cloth to muse this time. I think you can get a very high quality soundfont as a result of this effort. example: if the first string's frequency is 4Hz and the second one's is 5Hz, the first common frequency point of these two is 5 * 4 = 20Hz you really can do anything..! The display you get the screenshot is linear "Waveform" display. Glad to hear my samples are getting better! Includes some extras in other banks. So I dont know why this lacking of Hi-Fi happened. :), Three things I need to point out about this soundfont page Link here In my experience: Ideal sample recording level around -3 or -6 dB may be good as it is necessary to leave a free-room above. >Ideal sample recording level around -3 or -6 dB According to Audacity's "linear" settings, I said 0.9 or 0.85, which is equal to -1 dB approx. Ok, so try to sample without harmonic tone. I hope you enjoy. Because there are software that use sf2 soundfonts and cannot use the sf3 format (If you want this soundfont to be available with other software). Dec 28, 2018 - 20:53. like the by kazuma yamamoto. The quality of these raw samples is better than average. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jj6xxsz54wdxx9b/AAC1QXBhrP8cWAt1ULTQprFqa?dl, In reply to OK! In reply to AHHHH Fantastic job Ziya..! All the things you told me are really my treasure. Please log in first to post your question. So I could use it for MuseScore. so here is the link of by kazuma yamamoto. In reply to Ziya, Keep the microphone between the bridge and the sound hole, but a little closer to the sound hole. Unfortunately, MuseScore doesn't include, inside its files, the soundfont the user is using. Here is my sample of A# on 5th string. Because when these are combined, the difference becomes clear. Enjoy. Instead of this, can you insert my photo? What does the open E sound mean for someone using the D, a, d, g, b, e; or C, e, g c, e, g; or D, a, d, f#, a d; or D, g, d, g,b, e tuning? here from the Pulldown-Menu. The final sound will be Who knows? I think it's very usefull for solo guitar when it's having percussive sounds. Should be better. In reply to Hi ziya :) Kazuma Yamamoto Guitars Not that, I think that he advises you about recording level before any processing. (normalized) after following your method. This will be the new thread for Classical Guitar Ichiyanagi ver1.0 Release ), Got same message as you gotumm strange.. :( sub-bank. Im not sure if its better or not.. section are valid in the preset :D. I'm working on creating SF BETA, 5 tones for each days.. Im in progress:D (I think you have a preamp since you use a condenser microphone.). In reply to My suspicion is nr.2; by kazuma yamamoto. One thing; which number should I assign for each of those ? File Size. Need concentration, be supper quiet..! Really, I cannot find any words in my poor English vocabulary.. Btw. *create two sets of sample / normal & (natural) harmonics tones Thank you so much, "cadiz1", for this wonderful soundfont!!! Or do you think its preferable to leave as modified one? : Take a sample from the 3rd position of each guitar string: *Where it is heard on the piano keyboard (1.white vertical line / 2.black vertical line) If it may have the same timbre as the previous samples, you can record these three samples separately. Also, sf3 is nothing different than sf2 in terms of parameters. https://sites.google.com/site/soundfonts4u/. Classical Guitar 'Ichiyanagi' Release, Ive been getting excellent feedback from friends about CL sound font..! About picture: I copied that picture from a public guitar forum. so it's possible to do with staff-text properties :D. We can easily add "harmonic" and "open-string" to it. https://www.dropbox.com/s/mpxdqiqdblorc6u/2nd_d_nail.wav?dl=0, 3rd string_Bb (two samples) Il try. And Thank you for checking those harmonic sounds..! In reply to Your file will sound with by jotape1960. SGM-v2.01. Perhaps the problem is in the recording conditions: is the guitar's front soundboard or backboard vibrating freely? :D When composing for woodwinds particarily, because their different ranges have distinct sounds. That really makes sense to me :D After that (and if you have permission): By working on this material, I can design many useful sounds from just one set of samples. I found this little piano on "4shared" from somebody who sampled it from his Yamaha arranger. And wow, open strings sub bank! Im using same finger, same angle &force. In reply to Working slowly as you by kazuma yamamoto. as far as I understand ; Great you already correct the file in the previous post ! For example, when I pluck G in 1st string, there is very nice (in my taste) unison resonance from open G in 3rd string. It is not easy to hear, but a familiar ear detects it. And yes, feel free to use my sound font when it will be ready. 12 Strings Guitar Effect ! 49 MB. The short answer is: to keep the notes in a closed position. Click on "Set as Default" so it automatically loads the same soundfonts next time. Now that you love this sound of your guitar, then this job shouldn't be incomplete. Thanks for the contribution. //open string https://www.dropbox.com/s/bogmumeibyy02jc/Classical-Guitar_Ichiyanagi-v When to compile to sf3 format in polyphone, where to assign these harmonic sounds? Click on the soundfont name to start downloading the soundfont (.sf2) file. Could you please put the final version of link? Pretty sure I complied to sf3 (high) format, For this reason, some instruments have additional open wires called drone to vibrate constantly. Also, I added two 12-string Classical Guitar instruments that I created from same samples. Click on View > Synthesizer. *Microphone : AKG C214 Yes, it's good to set as -1dB. A previous instrument to the guitar that we know of. In reply to If you upload it to by mike320. //It's also necessary to define this sub-channel in a instruments.xml. Im completely new in this field, and very much appreciate if someone gives me any feedback / technical advice. For our case, Id like to follow the ways of * Where it is heard on the piano keyboard*. so here is the link of my original beta ver wav file especially the 2nd and 3rd and 4th ones are important. In reply to Thanks. As I said: simply not available and I gave up looking for it. So I'll sample by kazuma yamamoto. And if my ear listening correctly, this E tone is still modified one. Thank you so much. Select your sound and click "Set as Default". Delete the noise in the last part of the sample (if any). In CL Guitar Harmonics, https://www.dropbox.com/s/8hk4m0puxj4qury/1st_8f_c.wav?dl=0, 1st string_13fret_F https://www.dropbox.com/s/folcdt2u3gr7oig/1st_13f_f.wav?dl=0, In reply to All right! For the next time, (whole new sets of samples), *Where it occurs on Guitar-frets. Wow! I prefer to hear not digitally modified tone but recored sample. Im pretty sure Kazuo (Father) is still working as luthier, I talked with him(father) on the phone today. I haven't done a lot of testing, but the timbre of the few pieces I've tested sounds good (based on the sound of this guitar). I thought "I should copy and paste your name from sf3 so I don't make a mistake" and wherever I copied it (maybe I copied the wrong place from the place I wrote wrong) and I made a mistake. Altough some manufacturers use 1-128 (eg: Roland; GS) and some others 0-127, 0-127 representation (for technical reasons) are also used in Soundfont editors and most (old?) In reply to OK, I need some help for by kazuma yamamoto, According to the General-MIDI specification, each instrument has a certain preset number with it. (I'm using an older version of Musescore, so hopefully this still works for you.) And you wrote, In reply to I guess this is not a felt by Ziya Mete Demircan. I found some decent, (and free), guitar soundfonts here: https://sites.google.com/site/soundfonts4u/. That's where bad piano soundfonts fail in the first place. Ill put link to my original wav file of this later, so you can check. https://www.hedsound.com/2019/07/flamestudios-guitar-soundfonts-in-sf2, Trying to load 'SCC Expressive Strings' in MuseScore. Hearing harmonics in a normal sample is of course not much desired. also where to cut out in the end? Let me make sure, For now, Im not so satisfied with treble sounds, little too metallic.. In reply to Just finished to sample by kazuma yamamoto. if you provide epic guitar soundsamples, of course it is possible tot make an epic guitar soundfont. *1 *mono recording Even if wave is small, still click might occurs. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gP6Yodu5BJY4TIYGqh58J-haGY3uKn9d/view?. I have enough sample voices that you have gave. Several years by kazuma yamamoto, I wrote it as I remember it; They use 1-128 as the external representation; but Internal numbering is always 0-127, However, this is what confuses many years between users (GM, XG and GS or Internal numbering and External representation). Select your new sound and click the confirmation button. total 8 tones, In reply to Right, good to check both :) by kazuma yamamoto, Yes, these examples are good. For example, octal 11 would be 00H, 12 would be 01H, etc. Wow you can do anything you know so well about creating sound font ! About surname and brand name confusion: The accuracy of the information we find on the Internet is always questionable. This allows you to get good results on average. Although there are some photos of them on getty-images website, I couldn't use it because it is copyrighted. MIDI editors. I don't know if it is caused by other strings that are not well muted or somewhere else. It didnt mean anything bad with ending the letter o https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5pbxd34w552ja8x/AABM0Ixp-S3mdMQ7_yuNNnAja?dl, As you suggested, contains of; *Microphone : AKG C214 You will be billed within 2 days to 21/10 of every year. Your explanation is very clear, easy to understand. it's all subjective, so my best advice is to see the Handbook under Soundfonts and try anything that seems interesting. What I mean is that you can add single instrument soundfonts or sfz. All right! I don't know the situation (and trueness) of any of these, because I have been telling this theoretically since the beginning of this topic (and without knowing the conditions). In reply to Should be maybe add that by Philzen, No. "Epic" is subjective, I recommend trying the similar sound in any of the other soundfonts recommended int eh Handbook under Soundfonts to see if you prefer any of those. Env. Please log in first to post your question. In reply to Make sure the following is by Ziya Mete Demircan. *Guitar : Kazuo / Kunihiko Ichiyanagi. Do you still have an unanswered question? and installed it in MS 2.3.2. This may be due to the string's material, perhaps sampling conditions; I don't know exactly, but this is the sampling we have. What a GREAT job you did ! So will it fail to playback at all, or will it revert to the standard nylon guitar? Congratulations and thanks for your efforts. >in Real life the Guitar, Pluck one string almost always causes resonance (harmonics?) Small adding / changing I did; 241 bass guitars. Does the recording software pre-filter the sound? My suspicion is nr.2; You told me Threshold should be '-60db' but I'm not sure if other parameters are correct. This guy is a guitar wizzard - https://sites.google.com/site/soundfonts4u/ The correct name for that format should be sf2z (or something similar), but it's too late. It can be used as a baritone guitar with the lower-octave version. Especially in thick strings (E and A), a harmonic tone is heard after the middle of the sample. This episode of SoundFont Wars features Alfred Reed's El Camino Real.We have a paid subscription SoundFont [Noteperformer] vs. a free-to-use program MuseScor. ahhhh no word again !!! Glad to hear my by kazuma yamamoto. 1st string F -> 2nd string 6th fret.. until 2nd string 12 (B) fret, then switch to 1st string 8th fret (C), And Thanks for the link, I've seen it before but didn't try that font. If you don't like that one, I suggest Timbres of Heaven (nice, but REALLY loud) or Arachno's soundfont. Big Spice. These samples are much better than the previous ones: But: Unexpected error also for me. The v-letter(s) indicate folded cloth. Thank you for your by kazuma yamamoto. My understanding, example: -v-v- - -v- <=Dashes indicate wires. I simply reduced harmonics, but a more careful reduction is needed. Make fake palm muted notes ! Thank you for your comment! tones A# to D (Red circled) are not so realistic, more like normal tones. Thank you! I don't know why this happened. These are much shorter. THANK YOU SO MUCH for doing this!! Thank you for these correcting ! John, In reply to These SoundFonts have now by Jonky Ponky. wow, that could be very good idea, never thought about it.. For the next recording (Beta2), I will try to use my another Guitar, Jose Ramirez (1977) ), There is always a way to increase the record gain. In other words, the string vibrating at 4Hz will have a small effect at the 5Hz point, the other string vibrating at 20Hz (on its own 3rd harmonic). Otherwise, we need to (artificially) soften the starting point by increasing the attack parameter so that there is no click at the beginning of the sample. Is there a decent sounding distortion guitar soundfont? But for now I have enough time to answer only one. The USB cable is plugged directly into the computer and there is no Hub in between. In the screenshot below, the -3 dB area is marked yellow and the -6 dB area is marked green. and he(kunihiko) advised me to better not use this picture (owner is a little bit difficult person, he told me). Plug the microphone into the XLR microphone jack. ah, got it. *Guitar : Kazuo / Kunihiko Ichiyanagi, In reply to My brand new strings is by kazuma yamamoto, In reply to I'm looking forward to :) by Ziya Mete Demircan. It is necessary to try and see how this will work in practice. This is REALLY amazing workThank you so much :D. >Small Update (my small achievement :) ; That's why I reported the news there. In reply to I think it has a nice sound by Ziya Mete Demircan, ZIYA !!! She is a classical Pianist / Forte pianist, and very professional how to use body when producing sounds. Also, if you are constantly working on a soundfont and opening and closing the same file, you have noticed that you cannot comfortably work in sf3 format. Another way to overcome this is to create two separate patches, one where the sound is heard (artificial harmonics) and the other connected to guitar frets (natural harmonics). I will use same Guitar (Ichiyanagi) for the next beta as you encouraged me. What do you think about adding tap(percussive sounds)subbank ? The balances of samples are variable. ( :) ), Vol Env Attack: 0.003 (This setting prevents the non-existent and unwanted "crackling" sounds and some peaks {and pops} at the very beginning of the sample. Also, switch on the low-bass prevention filter on your microphone. :) Hello, Go to View > Synthesiser. screenshot from: R0land SCVA manual, In reply to I wrote it as I remember it; by Ziya Mete Demircan. In reply to I know that I may not by Lafayette, because on a live electric guitar you can, after picking the string, change the sound in many ways; a soundfont only can play the sound that is in the sample. I used all the harmonics you prepared before and made fine adjustments/tuning. Currently, only "normal" and "mute" channel options are available for the "Classical Guitar" instrument. Actually I'm thinking to replace some 1st string sounds to 2nd string, like, 1st string E -> 2nd string 5th fret You should compare the high octaves. You wrote, additional sounds from the bottom "e" string 8th and, 13th: c, f, After several testing, I cannot make decay / sustain long in treble sounds unfortunately, seems its my Guitars character..:(. Without normalization, It would be better to record the peak level of about 0.7 - 0.5. Sound Qualities: Just finished to sample normal tones! // (first overtone = 2nd harmonic) But I guess I caused more confusion :), In reply to I wrote it so that there was by Ziya Mete Demircan. Just installed the guitar sounds and they are the most beautiful ones i've heard in MS so far. Thus, you prevent the sympathetic resonance (and vibration) of other (open) strings. I think I will sample open strings sounds (sub bank) for next version :). https://www.cordaminazioni.com/i-nostri-strumenti/chitarra-battente/ And it's a nice gift to the users. But what does this "preset" means? But I also have thick one, for piano tuning, Ill use it. and now I'm very happy to contribute this to MuseScore :D, In reply to Thank you Shoichi!! * Change the file name KYInstruments-v2.xml to KYInstruments-v2_1.xml in the description. :D. One thing to make sure, Im so by kazuma yamamoto. > Do not sample from open strings, except for the low-E string. I didn't know this filter 'Truncate silence', wow, its sooo useful.. Question about by kazuma yamamoto, In reply to It is good to check both. Thanks :), In reply to Question ; In any case, better that the default soundfont. Appreciate if you could advise how to cut & wrap ; About ambient sound, dont know if its cause by over-filtering. In reply to Thank you so much, "cadiz1", by jotape1960. https://www.dropbox.com/s/hjqg7zjxqqb5czk/A%23_4th_a.wav?dl=0, *C -3rd string 5th fret Sorry i meant this one: https://sites.google.com/site/soundfonts4u/ ), I think: Only normalization process can work. However when I google it, (The value "-3dB" is denoted by "0.7" and the value "-6dB" is denoted by "0.5". In reply to These samples are much by Ziya Mete Demircan. Billed annually at $39.99 View Official Scores licensed from print music publishers Download and Print scores from huge community collection ( 1,426,528 and growing) Advanced tools to level up your playing skills One subscription across all of your devices This material must not touch firmly touching the bridge, the front board and the wire you left open. //sorry, In reply to Yes, these examples are good by Ziya Mete Demircan. Briefly, use 0-127 internally, 1-128 externally. https://www.hedsound.com, Here its rather long discussion thread, Perhaps the problem is in the strings of the guitar: These strings may sound like they have lost their vibration feature. Freepats has a few decent ones - http://freepats.zenvoid.org/ (from the thickest string to the thinnest: G, c, f, bb, d, g) Take a sample from the 3rd position of each guitar string: (from the thickest string to the thinnest: G, c, f, bb, d, g) and additional sounds from the bottom "e" string 8th and, 13th: c, f. This allows us to test a light version of the soundfont we have and hear the quality of the material. But the samples on strings "d", "g" and "b" are a little muffled as if they were played without fingernails. for that time, I would like to naming not beta2 but ver 1.0, In reply to ZIYA !!! Its the only guitar sound that seems to sound good for my arrangements. Fall into savings: 65% OFF 16:34:36. In reply to Ziya, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QdvYdgN5XpDXg04gE9r23TbtEgGIWeRi/view?, In reply to Thank you for the nice words by Ziya Mete Demircan, ZIYA! This as a result, kind of unison sound effect. OK, here I have three things Im aware of; I want to admit that I didn't care much about harmonics because I gave my concentrate to new sampling sounds. Because the forum gives an error. Then I will mute all strings except the one which Im plucking for the next samples as well. C: \ Users \ myUsername \ Documents \ Musescore3 \ Instruments \, Define the file (in Musescore) from: Edit => Preferences -> Score tab, In reply to Copy the KYInstruments-xml by Ziya Mete Demircan. I know that I may not understand the answer, but for the sake of enlightenment for others why are guitars notoriously hard to do right in a soundfont? means, sounds of F,Bb,D, In reply to Sure :) play with fingernail by kazuma yamamoto. Do you think its good idea? picking the string from the same place for each one. Well well, I need to record one again anyway.. The waveform has small wave in the first place (white vertical line), then big one (black vertical line) And I was very happy with this process. you by kazuma yamamoto. // clip occurs. 3rd: 7th pos. form other strings. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mGYDJM5xPMIn9vJue5Lo4XkZUWyetnDa/view?, In reply to Please check this pre by Ziya Mete Demircan, AHHHH Fantastic job Ziya..!! open str. these are all "Raw Sample", nothing is edited. It was a quick job though, but I hope it works. http://www.fana.co.jp/index.html Thanks. ahhhh no word again by kazuma yamamoto. The sound is muffled, like put under a cloth, something like that, or it's kind of like playing with a mute. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mGYDJM5xPMIn9vJue5Lo4XkZUWyetnDa, In reply to I understand why you feel by Ziya Mete Demircan. Perhaps the problem is not on the strings but on the guitar: The bridge and soundboard may not have been made well. On the site you can also hear some examples of midi files being played with theses SoundFonts. some are wanted and others not. Try "harp" and "nylon string guitar" (as there is no second harp in our default soundfont, we have to use a similar sound instead, in this case). But still I feel some difficulty to mute especially recording middle strings, 3rd, 4th. To disable auto-renewal, go to Subscription in Settings. *Range : D1-B4 SoundFonts Musescore's basic guitar soundfont is unacceptable! by Ziya Mete Demircan, >OK! Wow! I had adjusted the sound range lower than normal (up to C) so that it can be used on guitars with different tuning(s). MuseScore Feedback Form. Please put the link of releasing version of the CL Soundfont in the txt file via The starting points are not carefully cut. And I made it for the very first time! So write down his (Father) name literally Kazuo Ichyianagi. (in few hours ?!!). Other friends can help you figure out how to add this sound-font to the musescore. *Microphone : AKG C214 But its ok, I can reply this your message. So, settings in the inst. Ramirez 1a 1979 cedar top. And I have been using it for years. True, if someone uses altered tuning, contains of Low-D or even Low-C, no sense to make only Low-E opened. Really, Its a superb work! It may be better to use them without any process on it. In reply to These are also good. Those from F#3 (15_F#2_4th) to G#4 (29_G#3_2nd) are muffled as if filtered. There are some explanations about other (unexpected) problems under the download link on the website. I think Its a time to release! *sf3 format (high) compiling In reply to All right !! But anyhow, these numbering differences shouldnt be any big problem. The patch number of Nylon String Guitar is 000:024 //Bank:000 Preset:024, Presets are the main-identifiers in bank 000. Previous wav samples were better than these. For sampling, you wrote I have MDL and it is a vast improvement on the existing MuseScore drumline but I'd like to know if there's anything better. I also added the subbank tap (set the bank no '7') in the soundfont by editing our newst version,1.03 from your dawnload link. Mute other strings by Ziya Mete Demircan, Ziya, So Beautiful spanish (Flamenco) Jazz like Means, just record 1st open string ?not 12th pos.? samples on strings "d", "g" and "b" If necessary, we have the chance to set the 2nd point (or somewhere between the two) as the starting-point in the sound-font editor (with the "sample-start-offset" parameter). I think this version can be released. A Dropbox link is not by Jojo-Schmitz. :), You can open a new topic and link to this web-page. Thus, each guitar-string became more tense and had more (hi) or (mid) timbre. In reply to WOOOW.. answer is 1.. ! I was really touched and proud. 1st: 0th pos. Do you still have an unanswered question? Is it ok to tick remove DC offset ? Well, the current question is: If you don't like them then simply remove them. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ltiqi9zsnwehw31/F_6th_stri_14th_feb.wav?dl=0, B 5th *1: The first harmonic is the sound of the open string. Usually, most of the adjustments in the Preset section multiply (or divide) the setting in the instrument section. *Range : D2-B5 If you want, you can create a separate sub-bank named "open_strings" and add notes of open strings here. sooooo much to by kazuma yamamoto, *B -5th string 2nd fret- In reply to The problem is whether the by Ziya Mete Demircan. You will be billed within 2 days to 04/11 of every year. THANK YOU SO MUCH, you are my hero really.. I guess this is not a felt type (multi purpose) cleaning cloth, just a thin (instrument) cleaning cloth. I didnt (well, couldnt) touch any other advanced settings, (omg,so much complex settings you did wow..). Now, this resonance is really an essential aspect of the sound of a guitar. if you provide epic guitar soundsamples, of course it is possible tot make an epic guitar soundfont. Just follow the instructions in the manual to try them in MS. But it has a pleasant timbre. Learn more. For technical reasons (for convenience), apply the following setting from the preferences section. It has some quite decent nylon guitar sounds but I'm just wondering what will happen if I upload a score with one of these guitars selected and someone plays it without the same soundfont installed.