Composition thread

[Christopher Stamper]

Well, I'm basically limited to software, a I've got no money.

So is qSynth good? Or should I use something else, like freebirth\whatever?

And yeah, I'm getting sound fonts too. Hard to find any that I like. :-(

Thanks!

On Dec 7, 2007 6:34 PM, D. Michael McIntyre <
michael.mcintyre at rosegardenmusic.com> wrote:

> On Friday 07 December 2007, Christopher Stamper wrote:
> > OT, but what do you guys recommend for a synth? Software (qsynth, etc)
> or
> > hardware?
>
> Depends on what you're going to do with it, and how much money you have.
>  For
> an all around General MIDI sound provider, I still love my old Roland
> Sound
> Canvas, and think it wins for being consistently decent across the board,
> even though none of its sounds are that great.  I've got soundfonts with a
> better piano, a better oboe, whatever, but the Roland is still my
> workhorse
> after 12 years.
>
> However, hardware is the expensive way to go, and these days you have to
> do
> most of your shopping on eBay, because they've discontinued so much of
> this
> kind of technology in favor of the next generation, which revolves around
> samplers.
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