Erik De Schrijver
2017-06-18 15:20:02 UTC
The expression "Sound quality" is used here (for lack of a better term)
to make a subjective judgment of how close to real pipe sounds the
reproduction of sampled or synthetized organ sounds comes using sample
players.
The current forum discussion focuses (among others) on fluidsynth using
sf2 soundfonts versus GrandOrgue using wav files.
To get some feel about how both sounds i made (with very little effort)
the comparison between a sf2 soundfont played with fluidsynth, and the
wav files used to make this sf2 file using GrandOrgue. I used for this
the excellent versions of the Balzan organ i have available, namely
Balzan_v1.1_jO3.20 for jOrgan and Balzan_Wet_v1.1_GO_0311726, and let
them play the midi file G.deMacque-Conzonance.mid .
The sf2 file has samples for every note, and this is also the case for
the GO sample set, which has 3 releases per note. I think that the GO
samples have been used to make the sf2 soundfont; perhaps Mark Bugeja
would like to confirm or deny this.
If my assumption is correct, then differences one could hear are
primarily due to the performance of the playback engines, respectively
fluidsynth and GO.
If you happen to have both jOrgan and GO running, you can do the same
comparison with very little effort.
Probably your ears are better than mine. The more ears do the comparison
the better to level off individual preferences.
I would be interested to read what your findings are; not to bias
anybody i shall keep my observations for myself until hopefully more
ears have made their own appreciation.
All the best.
Erik.
to make a subjective judgment of how close to real pipe sounds the
reproduction of sampled or synthetized organ sounds comes using sample
players.
The current forum discussion focuses (among others) on fluidsynth using
sf2 soundfonts versus GrandOrgue using wav files.
To get some feel about how both sounds i made (with very little effort)
the comparison between a sf2 soundfont played with fluidsynth, and the
wav files used to make this sf2 file using GrandOrgue. I used for this
the excellent versions of the Balzan organ i have available, namely
Balzan_v1.1_jO3.20 for jOrgan and Balzan_Wet_v1.1_GO_0311726, and let
them play the midi file G.deMacque-Conzonance.mid .
The sf2 file has samples for every note, and this is also the case for
the GO sample set, which has 3 releases per note. I think that the GO
samples have been used to make the sf2 soundfont; perhaps Mark Bugeja
would like to confirm or deny this.
If my assumption is correct, then differences one could hear are
primarily due to the performance of the playback engines, respectively
fluidsynth and GO.
If you happen to have both jOrgan and GO running, you can do the same
comparison with very little effort.
Probably your ears are better than mine. The more ears do the comparison
the better to level off individual preferences.
I would be interested to read what your findings are; not to bias
anybody i shall keep my observations for myself until hopefully more
ears have made their own appreciation.
All the best.
Erik.