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Instrument Originality

jolly1	Date: August 24, 2005 @ 2:57 AM I have been making song on FL Studio but sometimes I feel My songs dont have the Original Quality like the other songs. I play all the instruments with the Piano Roll in FL studio. Specialy when i hear the flute.. mine just cant even stand near the Original Flutes.. Why is that so? is there any way we can make all the instruments sounds Original?
djmihow	Date: August 24, 2005 @ 10:21 AM Record your own tracks, or try to alter them to offer a new tone.
jolly1	Date: August 24, 2005 @ 1:17 PM You mean Record with Original Instruments?
GeneHilbert	Date: August 24, 2005 @ 1:37 PM It really depends on the quality of the sound fonts you have. Obviously the original instrument is the best way to go, but most times it’s just not possible to have a pro level instrumentalist perform for you at your beckoned call. Unless you can do it yourself - so then you must rely on whatever tone generator, sampler, or midi triggered sound font you happen to have access to. Then to be able to mimic the performance behavior of that instrument can be a daunting task.
monkvolcano	Date: August 24, 2005 @ 3:00 PM i say use virtual analog synths.. then you don't have to worry about trying to emulate a "real" instrument, you can make a totally synthetic sound that doesn't sound cheesy because it's a pale imitation of an instrument in the physical world. but if you do want to use samples to try and emulate a real sound.. you basically have to get the best soundfonts availible.. then you should automate as many things as possible, such as velocity, tremelo, aftertouch, etc. be more specific and i will attempt to give a more specific answer. good luck
jolly1	Date: August 25, 2005 @ 1:43 PM Umm, I understand. Okay Monk, I'll be specific here... The two things that i so want to be Original is the Guitar n Flute. Not Electric Guitar but Box Guitar (Spanish Guitars) I want them in the background. No matter what i do i cant make em.. Is there any plugins for that? I tryed the slayer, but its all electrtic. n the Flue, well forget the flute now. i just want the Guitar quality So badly. I dont know how to play a Guitar, I just Build chords with Piano Role..You could help me ? I'd soo apriciate that.
GeneHilbert	Date: August 25, 2005 @ 2:12 PM Plugsounds Fretted - is pretty decent
monkvolcano	Date: August 25, 2005 @ 5:40 PM ok .. so let me start with the basics for you.. first of all, there's all different ways that you can try to emulate a real instrument... the simplest way (which I believe is the first thing you tried) is taking a basic wave file and loading it into a device called a sampler... a sampler takes a wave file, and plays it back at different speeds (frequencies) depending on which key you press on your keyboard, this produces a different pitch for each key.. the problem with samplers is that, when you play to far away from the pitch of the original sample, the sound becomes distorted in certain respects, mainly the speed at which it takes to finish the sample.. sooooooo.. the solution to this problem is what's called a soundfont! a sound font is a file that organizes a collection of samples on a keyboard.. it has samples that were recorded at different velocities and pitches.. the more samples there are in a soundfont, the higher quality.. look at it this way.. let's say you have a soundfont that has 2 samples.. and they are spread apart one octive.. half way between the octives.. the samples might sound a little weird.. so if you took the same soundfont and added 10 more samples and spaced them out evenly across the keyboard.. there would be much less noticible weirdness.. so.... as gene said.. the solution is to find the highest quality soundfonts availible.. unfortunatley i don't really know where to get them.. but I'm sure some one else could help you find them..
jolly1	Date: August 28, 2005 @ 11:30 AM Thankyou Monk! I think i will start my hunt for quality sound fonts. well i know what i should be doing now! it really helps. Thanx buddy.