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(Message started by: Sylvain Machefert on Jul 5th, 2006, 8:47am)

Title: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
Post by Sylvain Machefert on Jul 5th, 2006, 8:47am
As suggested, Olivier and Didier should propose some user demos in MP3 audio format, for people who don't have Gold yet, and wonder if they will acquiere it.

Here is the topic to list all demos posted here and there on the forum.

Please try to not pollute it :)



General demos


Here are some good samples (https://www.myriad-online.com/en/community/gold2.htm) for main, but not all, "natural" instruments sampled in Gold.

The GOLD Sound Database - Information about instruments (http://www.myriad-online.com/cgi-bin/instrumentinfo/instrumentinfo.pl) is the full list of instrument, with short MP3 sample, and details (note range, layers, photo).
Most of the instruments sampled by users are marked withNatural or Nat..


Users' demos


Sylvain Machefert :
  • Balade for violin (http://www.myriad-online.com/cgi-bin/bbs/YaBB.pl?board=goldbase;action=display;num=1093715584)
  • A recorder (flute) piece from Eberhard Werdin (excerpt) (http://iubito2.free.fr/fluteabec.mp3)
  • A street organ made with church organ sound (http://iubito2.free.fr/barbarie.mp3)
  • C.P.E. Bach Solfegieto, jazz version (http://iubito2.free.fr/Solfegieto.mp3)
  • Take Five, fanfare version (http://iubito2.free.fr/TakeFive.mp3)


    Christophe Morvan :
  • a great bagpipe demo (http://www.myriad-online.com/images/forum/Democornemuse.mp3)

    LapDom has posted some game music mp3. Great sound quality : see page 5 (http://www.myriad-online.com/cgi-bin/bbs/YaBB.pl?board=goldbase;action=display;num=1152082021;start=60)

    James_Warren :

    on 06/20/06 at 23:53:06, James_Warren wrote:
    I would like to contribute some sample mp3 files rendered with the Gold 2 samples.
    Here is the Adagio from Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 rendered seven times with different voices from the Gold 2 sound base.

    The first file is a "reference" piano version.
    Piano:
    Grand Piano 2
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/PaGP2.mp3

    Organ (Didier Roche's cathedral organ):
    Swell-Prestant 4'
    Swell-Hautbois 8'
    Swell-Montre 8'
    Ped-Cor de nuit 2'
    Ped-Clarion 4'
    Ped-Bombarde 16'
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/PaO.mp3

    A mix:
    Overdrive Guitar (Guitar)
    60's strings (Ensemble)
    Natural Oboe 2 (Reed)
    Cello 2 (String & Orchestra)
    Tuba (Brass)
    Contrabass (String & Orchestra)
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/PaMIX.mp3

    Reed:
    Natural Tenor Sax 2
    Natural Clarinet 2
    Xaphoon
    Natural Clarinet
    Natural French Bassoon
    Natural Bass Clarinet
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/PaR.mp3

    Brass:
    Natural Trumpet
    Euphonium
    Trombone
    Tuba
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/PaB.mp3

    String & Orchestra
    Natural Violin 2
    Cello 2
    Contrabass
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/PaS.mp3

    Just for laughs - Pads and Effects:
    Metal Fantasia (Synth Pad)
    Fantasmosphere (Synth Pad)
    Orchestral Atmosphere (Synth Effects)
    Echo Drops (Synth Effects)
    Ped-Bourdon 8' (organ)
    Brightness (Synth Effects)
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/PaPAD.mp3

    --------

    Now two old popular song standards and two old popular computer game themes.

    AlohaOe
    Pedal Steel (Guitar)
    Octa Rhodes (Piano)
    Taiko (Percussive)
    Natural Picked Bass 2 (Bass)
    G. Org-Flute ouverte 4' (Organ)
    Echo Drops (Synth Effects)
    Rock drum set
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/AlohaOe.mp3

    Oops,  I dropped my tune in the surf.
    Xaphoon (Reed)
    Natural Violin 2 (String & Orchestra)
    Natural Cello (String & Orchestra)
    Choir aahs (Ensemble)
    Choir aahs 2 (Ensemble)
    60's Strings (Ensemble)
    Synth Breathy Sax (Reed)
    Seashore 2 (Effects)
    Bird (Effects)
    Overdrive Guitar (Guitar)
    Natural French Bassoon (Reed)
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/EbbTide.mp3

    The Duke is back to kick bass and chew bubble gum...  and he's all out of gum!
    Grand Piano 2 (Piano)
    Bag Pipe (Ethnic)
    English Horn 2 (Reed)
    Natural Bass Clarinet (Reed)
    Tubular Bell (Chromatic percussion)
    Ped-Clairon 4' (Organ)
    Powerful Natural Alto Sax (Reed)
    Natural French Bassoon (Reed)
    Ped-Cor de nuit 2' (Organ)
    Steel Drums (Percussive)
    Ped-Bombarde 16' (Organ)
    Natural Harmonica 2 (Organ)
    Natural Oboe 2 (Reed)
    rock drum set
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/Grabbag.mp3

    Daddy, Daddy I sawed the demon in Doom.
    Clavi Bass (Bass)
    Choir aahs 2 (Ensemble)
    Natural Harmonica 2 (Organ)
    Metal Atmosphere (Synth Effects)
    Overdrive Guitar (Guitar)
    Natural French Bassoon (Reed)
    rock drum set
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/IsawedTheDemon.mp3


  • Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James_Warren on Jul 7th, 2006, 2:01am
    Two versions of Autumn Maple Leaf were available earlier on the forum:
    Choralban (Ensemble)
    Strings 2 (Ensemble)
    Natural Fingered Bass (Bass)
    Natural Steel Str Gt 3 (Guitar)
    Natural Piccolo (Pipe)
    Natural Juita Shamisen (Ethnic)
    Octa Rhodes (Piano)
    Natural Glockenspiel (Chromatic percussion)
    Voice oohs (Ensemble)
    Acc. Bass-Full stop (Organ)
    Drums Standard set
    Robert Allgeyer's modified-modified Standard Virtual Singer voice
    Robert Allgeyer's modified  Leontyne Virtual Singer voice
    The voices are singing the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" available from here: HTTP://www.omniglot.com/writing/japanese_romaji.htm
    Which was entered into the Virtual Singer lyrics editor as the following Japanese Romanji:
    Subete no ningen wa, umare nagara ni nutse jiyu de ari, katsu, songen to kenri to ni tsuite byodo de aru. Ningen wa, risei to ryoshin o sazukerareteari, tagai ni doho no seishin o motte kodo shinakereba naranai.
    English translation:
    All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
    I have taken extreme "poetic license" with the syllable breaks.
    HTTP://webs.lanset.com/jow/AMLJ4.mp3
    The same arrangement but with the "chipmunk" singers (All Virtual Singer voice timbre sliders pushed 3/4 or more to the right)
    HTTP://webs.lanset.com/jow/AMLJ4Chip.mp3

    From here:
    http://www.seiyaku.com/hymns/en/312.html
    I found the Japanese Romanji lyrics to "Hoshinoyo" and a history lesson.
    No "Poetic License" was required to enter those lyrics into the Virtual Singer editor.
    The four Virtual Singer voices are all slight modifications of the recent voice creations provided by Robert Allgeyer.
    HTTP://webs.lanset.com/jow/Hoshinoyo.mp3

    Also two stride piano songs were posted on the forum earlier:
    Fats Waller's "Russian Fantasy"
    Ped-Bombarde 16' (organ)
    Percussive organ (organ)
    HTTP://webs.lanset.com/jow/RussianFantasyLAME397extreme.mp3

    James P. Johnson's "Blueberry Rhyme"
    Vibraphone w (Chromatic percussion)
    Natural French Bassoon (Reed)
    HTTP://webs.lanset.com/jow/BlueberryRhymeLAME.mp3


    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James_Warren on Jul 7th, 2006, 2:16am
    The Hoshinoyo music file for the previous post is attached in this message at the top. (I thought that I could add it to an edit)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James_Warren on Aug 8th, 2006, 3:28am
    From the Unheard Beethoven dot org site here:
    http://www.unheardbeethoven.org/
    this page ( http://www.unheardbeethoven.org/search/search.pl?piece=woo25.mid ) has:
    Rondino in E Flat for Wind Octet (1792) WoO 25
    Here rendered with the Gold 2 organ voices:
    G.Org-Flute ouverte 4'
    G. Org-Trompette 8'
    G. Org-Flute chem. 8'
    Swell-Cromorne 8'
    G. Org-Gambe 8'
    Swell-Prestant 4'
    Ped-Bourdon 8'
    Ped-Bombarde 16'
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/unheardbeethoven.org_WoO_25_organVoiced.mp3

    Along with his permission to use his file, Mr. Holsbergen (Willem) author of the midi file and one of the principals of the Unheard Beethoven site gave this touching story about the creation of the file:

    "I'd like to say something about why the WoO 25 midi was created at all. The piece had been recorded several times, and according the Unheard Beethoven rules there was no need to do it. However, there was this girl I met on the Internet, early 20s, and beautiful too. She suffered from a terrible heart disorder; she had been operated several times, but needed more operations. But her condition no longer allowed that. So it was clear to all that it was only a matter of time before she would die. She was very brave about it.

    Her nick was PinkSmurf, because, as she explained to me, pink was her color when she was having another attack.

    One day she asked me for a recording of the WoO 25 Rondino; I believe her little brother needed it for some school project. How could I refuse such a request?

    From her deathbed she saved the life of a friend -- her friend tried to commit suicide, by taking an overdose of sleeping tablets, one evening in November. Somehow the PinkSmurf got wind of that, and called an alarm number, directing an ambulance to her friend's house. They found her there in time.

    The PinkSmurf must be dead now for many years : I haven't seen her in ages, and her website, where she told about the medical background of her disorder, and kept a diary, has long since been closed.

    To me, Beethoven's Rondino seems to reflect something of her courage, and her desire to live. What irony: she dying, desperate to live, her friend, living, desperate to die."

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James_Warren on Jun 12th, 2007, 4:38am
    Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/BachToccataFugueDmJ10.mp3
    Last update June13 '07 9pm

    Dear browser, when you download Harmony Assistant for evaluation you won't have the Gold 2 voices used in this file but  you will be able to apply the same audio output effects on the free voices that are available. Look at "goodies" on the main page for a description of the free sound library options. The Harmony Assistant audio output effects will multiply the number of tasty sounds from which you can draw to flavor your musical dish no matter what kind of library access you have.

    The effects most audible in this particular file are reverb, vibrato, surround (to enliven and enhance the stereo/3d placement of the voices,) bass boost and flanger (the distortion in the overdrive guitar voice.)

    From the top menu line of Harmony Assistant get into scroll mode:
    Score / page mode (clicking on it toggles between page and scroll mode)
    See the exclamation mark in the left margin at the start of the staff?  You can change voices for the staff and alter the effects of the voice by clicking on the exclamation mark. You can silence or enable a staff by clicking on the speaker icon from the same area.

    The pop up menu for voice contains the Vibrato and Fx buttons at the top.  Some voices (like the overdrive guitar and clarinet) already have vibrato and Fx applied to them by default.  You can change that by moving the sliders but I have left the guitar and clarinet alone. Most of the other voices, however, have a custom vibrato applied which is approximately 28/66/24/40 or the slider pattern below which is how I remember what I like here.
    x
       x
            x
        x

    Also From the Fx button you can apply some varieties of reverb only to your chosen voice on that staff.  I have used that (with default settings) on the Ped-Bombard voice.  This staff only reverb will be magnified by any additional global reverb which works on all staffs.  Global effects are available from the "digital effects setup" menu on the play tools palette.

    Windows / play tools

    There is reverb. I have it set to 30 delay with the power turned all the way up here.
    There is base boost which I have on low power (you have to experiment for each case to bring out the voice quality you want)
    There is surround (I almost always have both settings on full) which will amplify the effect of the stereo placement of your voices.

    Place the voices (for stereo) with the "complete mixer" available from the master palette (Windows / master palette) and if you don't have fun while you are doing this take a break and try later because I love working with this visual tool and I must believe that you will too.

    Also from the top menu Scroll option, you can start and stop the music with the "scroll tune" or "play tune" options. You can also toggle music play on and off with the space bar.

    Download Harmony Assistant and give it a try!  Relax and take your time. It's free with no time limit.

    Here are the voices in this demo tune and how I picked them.

    Overdrive Guitar  (Guitar)
    Cello 2 (String & Orchestra)
    Alone in the opening  measures I think they work for a distinctive opening that keeps to the spirit of this classic that we all have come to know. :)

    Tuba (Brass)
    Ped-Bombarde 16' (Organ)
    For a "Growl" on the bottom with the teeth showing.

    60's Strings (Ensemble)
    Reconstituted Orchestra(Ensemble)
    Just trying to get a little contrast going with the string sounds.

    G.Org-Flute chem. 8' (Organ)
    Ped-Cor de nuit 2' (Organ)
    These were paired because the little 2' "whistle" makes the combination stand out better under all dynamics.

    G. Org-Quinte 2 2-3' (Organ)
    G.Org-Flute ouverte 4' (Organ)
    Also paired for cutting power.

    Ped-Monte 8' (Organ)
    I like the calm and cool (like a burbling brook) "hollow" sound.

    Clavi Bass (Bass)
    I settled on this sound because it's attack emphasizes the bass line but it's smooth sustain works with vibrato.

    Natural Clarinet (Reed)
    Works well with the Ped-Monte 8' in that quiet exchange in the middle from 3.5 to 4 minutes.
    Also, I played clarinet in my high school band so I'm prejudiced in favor of the instrument. ;)

    Oct Rhodes (Piano)
    It is a nice bell like accent that I like almost anywhere I put it.


    The Wikipedia has quite a complete summary on this piece of music and the authorship controversy.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_Minor

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James_Warren on Jun 13th, 2007, 5:28am
    When I was a kid listening to this stuff on the radio I often  wondered just what this mysterious blue grass looked like because there certainly didn't appear to be any around when *I* looked for it.

    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/WillTheCircleBeUnbroken.mp3

    Nat. New Orleans Banjo (Ethnic)
    Natural Mandolin (Guitar)
    Chorus Guitar (Guitar)
    Natural Acoustic Bass (Bass)
    Natural Steel String Guitar 3 (Guitar)
    Natural Violin 2 (String & Orchestra)
    Natural 12 String Guitar 2 (Guitar)


    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James_Warren on Jun 18th, 2007, 11:55pm
    "Wait  my lady! The Harkonnens my have tampered with them medically" Doctor Wellington Yueh to Lady Jessica in "Dune."
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/BaiMudan.mp3
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/BaiMudanNormalizedVolume.mp3

    Just the simple natural violin and open hi-hat cymbals but altered with the Fx button from the voice changing pop up window.  For percussion voices check the "drum" box on the upper left of the pop up window.  You will have to supply your own "spice melange" to the parameters if you alter any of the open hi-hat voices.  I added some reverb and flanger effects to make cymbals sounding more like the cymbals that I often heard coming from the Dragon parades on the streets of San Francisco where I lived briefly in an ancient past.

    The effects on the violin voice include the "equalizer" set with treble at 100 per cent and bass set at about 50 per cent.
    The "Resonator / Wah" has "resonance" set to zero, "frequency" at 3166 and "gain" turned down a little to 30.
    The "reverb" is on but left at default values.
    The "Vibrato" has 23 delay / 60 duration / 20 rate / 96 depth

    There is a "Normalize Volume" check box on the final menu as you export to an audio file.  I made one of those audio files for you so that you can make the comparison here.


    Here is the voice list.

    cowbell (orchestra set) with the "Drum" box checked on the "Staff instrument editing " pop up menu.
    High wood block (orchestra set) with the "Drum" box checked on the "Staff instrument editing" pop up menu.

    open hi-hat (orchestra set) with the "Drum" box checked on the "Staff instrument editing " pop up menu.
    Natural Juita Shamisen (Ethnic)
    The Shamisen voice is paired with the hi-hat.

    Natural Koto (Ethnic)
    Shanai (Ethnic)

    Yang Qin (String and Orchestra)
    Natural Violin (String and Orchestra)
    * The Micky Mouse Erhu *

    Tubular-bell (Chromatic Percussion)

    Natural Flute 2 (Pipe)


    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James_Warren on Jun 21st, 2007, 6:58pm
    A traditional Chinese melody "Jubilance."
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/Jubilance.mp3

    Natural Shakuhachi (Pipe)
    Natural Cello (String & Orchestra)
    Natural Acoustic Bass (Bass)
    Natural Steel Str Gt 3 (Guitar)
    Pizzicato Str. 2 (String & Orchestra)
    Woodblock (Percussive)
    Taisho Koto (Ethnic)
    Natural Juita Shamisen (Ethnic)
    Contrabass (String & Orchestra)

    And, of course the "VERV" (V_iolin with E_rhu R_esonance and V_ibrato)

    Natural Violin (String & Orchestra)
    The vibrato is delay=23, duration=57,  rate=57,  depth=93
    The Fx are "Resonator/Wah, Fixed/resonator, Resonance=0, Frequency=3111, Gain=63

    (I forgot a significant detail at first posting)
    The Fx on the "verv" violin voice include the "equalizer" set with treble at 100 per cent and bass set between 25 and 50 per cent.

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James_Warren on Jun 27th, 2007, 6:30am
    One final piece of Chinese Classical "Jiang He Shui"
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/FlowingWaters.mp3
    revised June 28

    If we take the quick and dirty "Verv" idea from Bai Mudan and Jubilance and apply the vibrato to individual notes and add pitch bend with a frequency curve we can get closer the the Erhu sound that I like so much.

    Double click on any note to edit it for vibrato and many other effects.
    Click on the green triangle at the start of the staff to edit a Frequency curve for that staff.  Use "setup..." from the green triangle pop up menu to create the curve.

    Natural Violin (String & Orchestra)
    Natural Violin 2 (String & Orchestra)
    Natrual Staccato Violin (String & Orchestra)
    All of these were altered as in the Jubilance demo above.

    Natural Koto (Ethnic)
    Distant Thunder (Effects)
    rain (Effects)

    The "VERV" (Violin with Erhu Resonance and Vibrato)
    Natural Violin (String & Orchestra)
    The vibrato is delay=23, duration=57,  rate=57,  depth=93
    The Fx are "Resonator/Wah, Fixed/resonator, Resonance=0, Frequency=3111, Gain=63
    Fx also includes the "equalizer" set with treble at 100 per cent and bass set between 25 and 50 per cent.  

    Feel free to experiment with the tone and pitch range of your "verv" because, "Since the 1930s, alto, tenor and bass versions of this instrument have been developed for the Chinese orchestra." quoted from
    http://www.shef.ac.uk/music/staff/js/AbErhu.html

    Also if you have a large pet snake that has recently molted this site will describe for you how to turn it into something useful.
    It's a good description of the construction and history.
    http://www.philmultic.com/home/instruments/erhu.html

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James_Warren on Jul 2nd, 2007, 6:27pm
    Created by Song generator  version 1.11.04
    © 2007 Verpeaux Jean-Paul (FRANCE)
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/AutoSongOneMoreTime.mp3
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/AutoSongOneMoreTimeQuartet.mp3
    (edit: latest quartet added July 4)

    One more time, oh
    We need just one more time.
    Make our music with joyful mind
    Joy does provide all that a mind will need
    for just one more time, oh
    We need just one more time
    hearing music so fine, until we know that
    song's never wrong and love is never blind.

    Dear lucky browser, there is a new script for Harmony Assistant that writes complete songs automatically.  You can request as many as 47 measures (the top left "enfin" knob), specify Major or Minor and it will generate completely unique and credible songs time after time.  From the top menu line it's "Options / song generator."

    I set it for 16 measures of music in a minor key here, removed a connecting note or two from the last measure, clicked on the black triangle of the melody staff to make it a "staff with lyrics," typed a few silly words under the melody staff, duplicated the melody staff, assigned two singers and instant hit!  It took me a few hours because I never used it before and I spent some time just playing with J-Paul Verpeaux's wonderful creation.  I just noticed this a few days ago when I checked for script updates.

    Hold on, let me check my invoice for you to see how much this amazing upgrade cost. . . . checking. . .  wait. . . Oh, that's right it's free as are all the other updates to this brilliant software!

    I used 2 of Robert Allgeyer's latest voices from the Anne, Jeanne, Guy and Luc collection.
    (Edit: the quartet version uses all four.)
    Here, let me just get his consulting fee for that to report it here... checking...  Oh, yeah, his creations were given to the community for free!

    Song generator picked voices from my Gold 2 collection because I have it.
    I just tweaked the sound balance and voices a little bit and duplicated the melody staff for two singers.

    Download the Harmony Assistant demo with Virtual Singer and write your first song with it in an hour or two!

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James_Warren on Jul 3rd, 2007, 7:22pm
    Created by Song generator  version 1.11.04
    © 2007 Verpeaux Jean-Paul (FRANCE)
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/AutoSongAllSkate.mp3

    Here you have to picture a huge stadium like hall filled with 100 or more young ice or roller skaters..
    The era may have past but this experience was once one of the most accessible entertainments for young people almost everywhere in the US.  As a youth I skated in several states with every hall having a theater organ or recorded imitation.  When my daughter was young I took her ice skating at a rink that still provided the same experience.

    If you have never had this experience just consider this an aural post card from a silly old man's past.

    The melody is on the synth theater organ with the equalizer set to 100% treble and 50% bass and with zero resonance.
    The reverb is 2056 ms with full power.
    The other skaters are "laughing" (Effects)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James_Warren on Jul 5th, 2007, 4:11am
    This is an extended reworking of the Auto Song from above.
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/OneMoreTimeQuartet.mp3

    One more time, oh
    We need just one more time.
    Make the music with joyful mind
    Joy does provide all that a mind will need
    for just one more time, oh
    We need just one more time
    hearing music so fine, until we know that
    song's never wrong and love is never blind.

    You will have to use the formal documentation and tutorials eventually, of course, but my goal here is to put this tool into your hands quickly so that you can do just as I have done with the Song in this demo file immediately upon downloading Harmony Assistant and Virtual Singer.  With the new Song Generator you may be able to complete a practice song within the first few minutes of your evaluation.

    First generate about 16 measures of song that appeals to you.
    Options / Song Generator
    Keep going until you find a tune that inspires you enough to put a little work into it.
    Toggle play on and off with the space bar or from
    Score / scroll tune (or Play tune) or from
    Windows / play tools (the speaker on the tool bar)

    Song Generator doesn't yet make endings so you may have to erase some notes in the last measure.
    Options / limit editing to one bar (make sure this IS checked)
    Edit / apply only to notes (make sure this is NOT checked)
    Highlight a single note or a group with the mouse click and drag
    Edit / erase, copy, undo (just as in any text editor)
    Another way to erase single items is with the eraser on the edit tools bar.
    Windows / edit tools

    You can enter your own notes on a staff from
    Windows / note tools
    All the other symbols and marks that you will need are in collections from the same Windows menu.
    Just drag them from the bar to the staff. Some times (as for a dotted note) you have to select two items to drag from a bar.

    Ok, now it has what sounds like a finish. Get into scroll mode, find the melody staff and make it sing some words.
    Score / page mode (this toggles between scroll mode and page mode)
    Under the start of the melody staff is an effects processor. It is set to give reverb to any instrument placed on that staff.
    Erase the thing completely with your eraser tool or double click on it and puzzle out how to turn off the reverb effect.
    Click on the black triangle to the left of the melody staff and click on the "Staff with lyrics" item.
    Now click under the melody staff to get into the lyrics box and type a word(separated by spaces) or a syllable(connected by hyphens) under each note.

    Ok now that you have singing lyrics copy a few bars of just the accompaniment staffs from the start and insert them before measure one to make something of an introduction for your song.
    Edit / bars / insert... (enter the number of measures that you have in the copy buffer)
    Now select (with mouse click and drag) the empty measures onto which you are going to paste the copy buffer and use
    Edit / paste

    If you want to have a different instrument play in the introduction then you must duplicate that staff.
    Staff / duplicate staff.
    Click on the black triangle to the left of the staff and choose "rename..." to change the staff name.
    The exclamation mark at the start of the staff will allow you to change voices.
    Now just erase notes from introduction part of the accompaniment staff and erase notes from the voice part of the introduction staff.

    Make some music!  See you in the forum!



    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James_Warren on Jul 18th, 2007, 10:39pm
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/BeijingTune.mp3

    The lead melody is carried by a pair of "verved" violins an octave apart and with the Shakuhachi which has an attack that the Natural Shakuhachi lacks.

    Natural violin (String & Orchestra)
    Shakuhachi (Pipe)
    Natural Shakuhachi (Pipe)
    Dulzaina (Ethnic)
    Natural Koto (Ethnic)
    Natural Juita Shamisen (Ethnic)
    Yang Qin (String & Orchestra)
    Reconstituted Orchestra (Ensemble)
    Strings 2 (Ensemble)
    Natural Cello (String & Orchestra)
    Cymbalum (Chromatic percussion)
    Pizzicato Str. 2 (String & Orchestra)
    Natural Contrabass (String & Orchestra)
    Standard drum set


    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Jul 27th, 2007, 6:03pm
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/HaydnQop64.mp3

    An unlikely combination that seems to work:

    Clavinet (Piano)
    Octa Rhodes (Piano)

    Swell-Cromorne 8' (organ)
    G.Org-Flute ouverte 4' (organ)
    Ped-Montre 8' (organ)

    Nat. 12 Str. Guitar 2 (Guitar)
    Cymbalum (Chromatic percussion)
    Zither (String & Orchestra)



    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Aug 8th, 2007, 6:32am
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/Vivaldi2hornConcerto.mp3

    Bugle (Brass)
    plus
    Natural Trumpet (Brass)

    Strings 2 (Ensemble)
    Plus
    Natural Violin 2 (String & Orchestra)
    Natural Violin (String & Orchestra)

    Natural Contrabass (String & Orchestra)

    Ped-Bombarde 16' (Organ)
    Ped-Soubasse 16' (Organ)
    Ped-Bourdon 8' (Organ)

    G.Org-Flute ouverte 4' (Organ)
    plus
    Natural Staccato Violin (String & Orchestra)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Sep 13th, 2007, 9:21pm

    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/adagioGminorAlbinoni.mp3

    60's strings (Ensemble)
    Reconstituted Orchestra (Ensemble)

    Natural Slow Violin 2 (String & Orchestra)
    With lowered frequency and resonance to imitate a viola

    Natural Violin (String & Orchestra)
    With raised frequency to contrast the imitation viola.
    Also many notes in the solo violin part have  the volume rising effect to soften the attack of this particular voice.

    Pizzicato Str. 2 (String & Orchestra)
    Slow Strings 2 (Ensemble)

    G.Org-Flute ouverte 4' (organ)
    Swell-Prestant 4' (organ)
    Ped-Fourniture III (organ)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Sep 29th, 2007, 5:48pm
    More lovely and distinctive examples here in mp3 and myr file form.
    http://www.myriad-online.com/cgi-bin/bbs/YaBB.pl?board=other;action=display;num=1190023873

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Sep 30th, 2007, 7:21pm
    Mr. Gold has posted elsewhere in the forum but I don't want any new browsers to miss it.
    Here, therefore, are more original works with the Gold 2 sounds.
    http://soundclick.com/edwardgold


    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Oct 1st, 2007, 5:35am
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/TicoTico_1.mp3

    Nat.Bass Clarinet (Reed)
    Swell-Cromorne 8' (organ)
    Ped-Clairon 4' (organ) [a bit of distortion on this one]
    All with some feedback delay and vibrato

    Dynamic Tom (percussive)
    Legato Natural trumpet
    Natural Trombone
    Natural Tenor Sax 2
    Techno Bass
    Saxo Alto Natural

    dog (SFX set in Drum)


    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Oct 18th, 2007, 8:55pm
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/Arabesque_Organ.mp3

    G.Org-Flute ouverte 4'
    Ped-Choral Basse 4'
    Swell-Voix humaine 8'

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Edward Gold on Oct 18th, 2007, 10:31pm

    on 09/30/07 at 19:21:34, James Warren wrote:
    Mr. Gold has posted elsewhere in the forum but I don't want any new browsers don't miss it.
    Here, therefore, are more original works with the Gold 2 sounds.
    http://soundclick.com/edwardgold

    Thanks James. Just saw this today.

    Another one is the satiric-only file of "Meditating in the Shakespeare Garden". Not a serious effort but with added sound effects. Mentioned in the Other Subjects forum.

    http://www.egoldmidincd.com/Shakespeare.html

    Ed Gold 1 with Gold 2 ;D

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by cordelia on Oct 22nd, 2007, 10:21pm
    Thanks for the demos.

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Nov 4th, 2007, 2:20am
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/3hms.mp3

    Natural Acoustic Bass (Bass) with feedback delay and Panning
    Natural Clarinet 2 (Reed)
    Natural French Bassoon (Reed) with feedback delay and Panning

    Nat. Bass Clarinet (Reed) with feedback delay
    doubled with
    Synth Breathy Sax (Reed) with reverberation and Panning

    60's strings (Ensemble) with a bit of vibrato and Panning

    Dynamic Tom (Percussive)
    Electric Percussion (Percussive)
    kick drum 1(brush set - drum box checked)


    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Nov 10th, 2007, 7:43pm
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/LoserMarch.mp3

    G.Org-Quinte 2 2-3' (Organ)
    Bugle (Brass)
    Natural trumpet (Brass)
    Nat. Bass Clarinet (Reed)
    Natrual French Bassoon (Reed)
    Sitar 2 (Ethnic)
    Taiko (Percussive)
    Heart Beat (Effects)



    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Dec 8th, 2007, 5:13pm
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/Tannenbaum.mp3

    Nat. Legato Violin 2 (String & Orchestra)
    Natural Violin

    Natural trombone (Brass)
    Bright trombone

    Power Rhodes (Piano)
    Octa Rhodes

    Synth Bass 101 (Bass)


    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Dec 29th, 2007, 8:17am
    "Auld Lang Syne" is translated literally as ``old long since'' or more currently as "times gone by."  So here's to all that water under the bridge and since we didn't drown in it, happy new year!

    Http://webs.lanset.com/jow/AuldLangSyne.mp3

    The voices are all likely to be modified with some or all of the vibrato, panning and feedback delay effects.

    Synth Breathy Sax (Reed)
    Nat. Legato Cello (String & Orchestra)

    Swell-Voix humaine 8' (Organ)
    G.Org-Flute chem. 8' (Organ)
    Natural French Bassoon (Reed)

    Natural Oboe 2 (Reed)
    Metal Fantasia (Synth Pad)

    Natural music box (Chromatic percussion)
    Natural flute 2 (Pipe)
    Grand Piano 2 (Piano)

    The electric distortion guitar from hell  consists of two voices with overdrive, wah and flanger effects set to the same extreme values.

    Overdrive Guitar (Guitar)
    Natural Clarinet (Reed)

    I was going to use just a clarinet which made a surprisingly good distortion guitar sound, I thought, but I wasn't happy with it's final high note alone.



    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by crimhead on Dec 29th, 2007, 12:34pm
    Hi

    Most of the time I use sounds from the gold sound base. You can listen to some of them here

    http://www.myspace.com/lutzstahlhofen

    If you need more information about the used sounds just send an IM or e-mail me.

    Lutz

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Jan 1st, 2008, 11:14pm
    "It may sound real but it isn't."

    I have listened to those tunes with pleasure several times each over the span two years now :) and I must disagree with your disclaimer at the top.  They *are* real, *real* good!

    I like the development and the variety of orchestration.  Those guitar voices are well worked and the tone of the electric voices are pleasant, full bodied and rich.  Can I persuade you to explain their creation here in this forum.  Are they from the Gold 2 sound base?  Are they composites of more than one voice?


    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by crimhead on Jan 2nd, 2008, 6:55pm
    Hi
    Thanks a lot for your kind words. But it is not so easy to tell here what I have done, so please have a look at the provided example. Its the part of the solo guitar from "Pitoresque views on the southern coast". You find it on "www.myspace.com/lutzstahlhofen". Its the first song on the player. The instrument is the guitar "Distortion GT-SE" from the gold sound base. It is played almost with its standard effect setting. But you can also take guitar "Distortion-G" from the other sound bases.
    First I have to say that it is very hard to notate a real sounding guitar solo if you dont play guitar yourself. And still then you have to listen quite closely to other guitar lines to analyse how it has to be done. To create a good guitar takes a long, long time. It is not only the composition itself, but the adding of the different effects that take such a long time. Now for the example:

    For the melody part I doubled the voice with its higher octave. It gives more body to the sound. For the slide at the end of the melody line I used 1/64 notes. Bar 12 to 15 simulate a beginning feedback. The following solo part has a lot of effects on single notes. You should try to edit these notes to see how the effects work. Dont miss the breaks between several notes. Delete them and listen again. There is a big difference.
    I can not explain it all here. Just fiddle around with the file and if you have any questions please ask me.
    I hope that others out there find it useful too.

    Best regards

    Lutz

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by crimhead on Jan 2nd, 2008, 6:57pm
    Sorry. If you click on the link for my page just delete the  "  at the end. Then it works.

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Feb 17th, 2008, 12:19am
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/LeCygne.mp3

    Natural French Horn (Brass)

    Slow Choralban (Ensemble)

    Ped-Cor de nuit 2' (Organ)
    Swell-Voix humaine 8' (Organ)
    Swell-Montre 8' (Organ)
    Swell-Bourdon 8' (Organ)
    Swell-Quintaton 16' (Organ)
    G.Org-Gambe 8' (Organ)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Feb 18th, 2008, 11:54pm

    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/TheElephant.mp3

    Natural French Horn (Brass)
    Bugle (Brass)
    Tuba (Brass)
    Natural Trumpet (Brass)

    Ped-Bombarde 16' (Organ)

    Nat. Bass Clarinet (Reed)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Feb 19th, 2008, 4:53am

    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/TheAquarium.mp3

    Natural Flute (Pipe)

    Pizzicato Str. 2 (String & Orchestra)
    Pizzicato Cello (String & Orchestra)
    Celtic Harp (String & Orchestra)
    Harp (String & Orchestra)
    Slow Violin (String & Orchestra)
    Natural Slow Violin (String & Orchestra)
    Nat. Legato Cello (String & Orchestra)

    60's Strings (Ensemble)

    Natural Glockenspiel (Chromatic percussion)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Robert_A. on Feb 19th, 2008, 5:32am
    Of the various animals above, I like the sound of the swan.  :)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Feb 19th, 2008, 6:42am

    on 02/19/08 at 05:32:27, Robert_A. wrote:
    Of the various animals above, I like the sound of the swan.  :)


    You will find the actual sounds of the swan at the bottom of this page:
    http://www.kwic.com/~pagodavista/schoolhouse/species/birds/tundswan.htm

    Regarding the sound of the demo files here I also love the organ sounds.
    There is a series on youtube with the complete zoo from the Carnival of the Animals plus humorous poetry reading.  Here is the Swan.  You can find the others nearby I think.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvh4zEKG2zs&feature=related

    More:
    Introduction & Lion
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2l_-1Lachg&feature=related

    Elephant
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWUt2D0FkdU&feature=related

    Aquarium
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO8v5G0s7BU&feature=related

    Fossiles
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcAJpsWWuIY&feature=related

    Rooster(Cock) & Hens
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AMxAH6XvUc&feature=related

    Cuckoo in the Woods
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRdGTkszsOc&feature=related

    People with Long Ears
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNCV7JQRj2g&feature=related

    Aviary
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFFt_kFq_eQ&feature=related

    Pianists
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGv933Mnru0&feature=related

    Tortoises
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mRJfMi3xYw&feature=related

    Kangaroos
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWPCaE76mHw&feature=related

    Finale
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR-18CyGTEY&feature=related

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Feb 22nd, 2008, 9:58pm
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/TheAviary.mp3

    Organ:
    Swell-Cymble II-II
    Swell-Prestant 4'
    Swell-Voix celeste 8'
    Swell-Quintaton 16'
    Swell-Montre 8'
    Swell-Violoncelle 4'
    Swell-Flute chem. 4'
    G.Org-Flute chem. 8'
    G.Org-Gambe 8'

    Bird (Effects)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Feb 23rd, 2008, 8:58pm
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/TheFossils.mp3

    Grand Piano 1 (Piano)

    Natural Clarinet (Reed)

    Natural Violin 2 (String & Orchestra)
    Natural Violin (String & Orchestra)
    Pizzicato Str. 2 (String & Orchestra)
    Natural Contrabass (String & Orchestra)
    Cello 2 (String & Orchestra)

    Xylophone (Chromatic percussion)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Feb 24th, 2008, 2:08am
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/ThePianists.mp3

    Piano:
    E.Piano 1
    Electric Piano 2
    Honky-Tonk
    Honky-Tonk 2

    String & Orchestra:
    Natural Violin
    Natural Violin 2
    Natural Cello
    Natural Contrabass

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Feb 25th, 2008, 9:34pm
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/TheFinale.mp3

    Natural Staccato Violin (String & Orchestra)
    Natural Contrabass (String & Orchestra)
    Natural Violin (String & Orchestra)
    Nat. Legato Cello (String & Orchestra)
    Pizzicato Str. 2 (String & Orchestra)
    Octa Rhodes (Piano)
    Natural Clarinet (Reed)
    Swell-Nasard 2 2-3' (Organ)
    Natural Flute (Pipe)
    Syn. Strings 3 (Ensemble)
    Natural Glockenspiel (Chromatic percussion)
    Xylophone (Chromatic percussion)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Tom Duda on Apr 11th, 2008, 5:18am
    Hello

    Olivier Guillion created MP3 samples of some instruments contained in Gold 2. He created these samples when the database was released. The samples may be found at

    http://www.myriad-online.com/en/community/gold2.htm

    Tom Duda

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Tom Duda on Apr 11th, 2008, 7:11am
    Hello

    Also, the full list of Gold 2 instruments are available as a link from the Gold 2 soundbase page here at Myrid. The URL is

    http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/demogold.htm

    Again, the link to these MP3 files are available for anyone who is considering purchasing a license for this superb database. The link is positioned prominently on the page that offers the license for purchase.

    So, no one needs to propose user demos in MP3 audio format. These have been available through the Myriad web site since 2002.

    Tom Duda

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Jun 5th, 2008, 6:17pm
    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/WWFTS.mp3

    Percussion from the Standard Set
    Natural Clarinet 2 (Reed)
    Xaphoon (Reed)
    Natural Picked Bass (Bass)
    Natural trombone (Brass)
    Bright trombone (Brass)
    Vibraphone w (Chromatic percussion)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Olivier Guillion on Aug 1st, 2008, 1:18pm
    Human Whistling Demo

    This file is a demo of the GOLD Base whistle sound. Volume and pitch effects have been added to make it sound as realistic as possible.

    Here is the story of this file:
    A few days ago, Mr Georges Valentin sent a file to the tech support, in order to let us fix a problem of memory consumption.
    This file was the score for a nice piece of music he composed, and it included a digital track in which Mr Valentin recorded himself whistling the lead voice.
    The memory problem was fixed, and when listening to the file, I realized that the recorded whistling part was great, with much expression.

    I then tried to replace the recorded whistle by a GOLD instrument, then to adjust some effects to make the sound more realistic and human. I used the recorded track as a template and tried to mimic the human effects and imperfections.
    In fact, I was also studying the possibility of writing a script that would auomatize this "humanization", but that's another story.

    So here is the result. All instruments (Piano, harp, staccato strings and whistle) are from GOLD Base.

    Regards,

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Grorom on Feb 5th, 2009, 9:56pm

    on 08/01/08 à 13:18:02, Olivier Guillion wrote:
    I then tried to replace the recorded whistle by a GOLD instrument, then to adjust some effects to make the sound more realistic and human. I used the recorded track as a template and tried to mimic the human effects and imperfections.

    Great !!!

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Ed on Feb 5th, 2009, 10:09pm
    Bravo Olivier !
    C'est magnifique, l'expression, les glissandos et les intonations sont très réalistes.
    Ed

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Olivier Guillion on Mar 11th, 2009, 4:08pm
    Il vaut mieux poster ici des MP3 que des fichiers .myr, afin que même ceux qui ne disposent pas de la base GOLD puissent l'entendre ;)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Nicolas Bocquet on Mar 11th, 2009, 4:28pm
    La Liste de Schindler, de John Williams, avec le Grand piano 2 Doux

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Nicolas Bocquet on Mar 11th, 2009, 4:29pm
    La Liste de Schindler, de John Williams, avec le Grand piano 2 Doux (suite)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Sylvain Machefert on Mar 12th, 2009, 6:59am
    Bonjour vieuxloniste,

    je recadre un peu le sujet... ici on met des démonstrations MP3 (donc inutile d'envoyer un .myr hein Nicolas!) réalisés uniquement avec la base Gold, afin qu'un visiteur qui cherche à entendre à quoi ressemble la Gold puisse juger d'après les démos très variées.

    Rien ne t'empêche de faire découvrir ta super soundfont, de sauvegarder ton instrument en .mui et le partager sur le forum, mais pas dans ce sujet, histoire qu'il reste le plus clair possible.

    Merci

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by vieuxloniste on Mar 12th, 2009, 1:30pm
    Et comme çà, c'est mieux?
    violon naturel 2, violon naturel 2 legato, violon naturel 2 pizz
    Grand Piano 1 corrigé
    rien que de la base Gold. :)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by muddle on Mar 17th, 2009, 2:07am
    Excellent.   I have wanted to clearly hear the  legato violin  in performance.    

    Thank you.

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on May 12th, 2009, 5:17am

    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/FuneralMarch4aMarionette.mp3

    Good evening.

    Tonights mystery concerns the miscreant Harmony Assistant user's motives for posting this file.
    It shows nothing new yet the interplay between the reeds has long held a curious appeal for certain musical illiterates in the outback of the colonies.   Perhaps the Gold 2 reed sound samples actually sound real to this musical innocent.   Maybe it's the pulsing orchestral punctuations that startle him awake continually just as his eyes begin to close so that he doesn't nod off to sleep and drool on his tie during the performance.  We open tonights performance, therefore, with the eternal question "are some musical tastes a crime?"

    If you solve the mystery before the end of the performance simply fast forward to enjoy the commercial message from our sponsor at the end.

    Natural flute 2
    Natural oboe 2
    Natural clarinet 2
    Natural French Bassoon
    Natural French horn
    Natural trombone
    Tuba
    Timpani
    Kick drum 1
    Reconstituted orchestra
    Power strings
    Pizzicato str. 2
    Reconstituted strings
    Strings 2
    Syn. strings 3


    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on May 12th, 2009, 8:04pm
    Harmony music file for the preceding mp3 demo.

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by muddle on May 16th, 2009, 1:21pm
    Actually,   this  similarly placed  'musical illiterate in an  outback of the colonies'  was also struck by the passages with the two  clarinets and two bassoon lines together.

    A sort of essence of reed harmony/ sound  to my mind.  
    I tried it with  a sound font clarinet of brighter tone and it worked possibly even better.

    Was also somewhat surprised to learn who wrote it!

    muddle



    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by James Warren on Jul 17th, 2009, 2:33am

    http://webs.lanset.com/jow/Tango.mp3

    Natural Steel Str. Gt 3
    Nat. 12 Str. Guitar 2
    Vosges' Spinet (Ethnic)

    In the set of Harmony Assistant midi demos on the disk there is to be found Albeniz Isaac (1860-1909) > Suite Espagnole > Tango.mid.

    In an ancient past, a visiting friend noticed my first used steel string guitar in it's ragged case with a coat hanger wire handle wrapped in plumbers tape and decided that his tutelage would allow me to play piano-like melody and harmony on the guitar the way that he could in the classical style. It only took me a year of aching wrists attempting clean bar cords and breaking my thin flat nails  to realize that I was unknowable IQ points too low and an entire grocery store's worth of spinach too weak to succeed to any acceptable level of competence.

    Thank God for virtuosos and recordings!

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Nicou59 on Aug 24th, 2009, 2:01pm
    voici en fichier joint un mp3 en 80kbps (ce qui fait un peu baisser la qualité, snif) de la fanfare du Te Deum de M.-A. Charpentier

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Oliveira on Aug 24th, 2009, 4:15pm
    ¡Genial, Nicolás!.
    Harmony, es el todoterreno de los programas de notación/secuenciador.
    :)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Nicou59 on Aug 24th, 2009, 4:30pm
    Oui Oliveira, tu as totalement raison.
    J'ai parfois essayé d'autres programmes, je l'ai aussi parfois detesté d'être si récalcitrant à faire ce que je voulais, et finalement, j'y suis revenu avec un plaisir absolu.
    Il nous permet de faire tant de choses...
    C'est mon éditeur de partitions préféré...  :D

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Oliveira on Jun 24th, 2010, 10:22am
    Tarde, muy tarde la réplica  ;D ;D
    Si, es cierto que H.A. es un todoterreno. No es el mejor en nada, pero es bueno en todo. Pero en todo caso, hay áreas en las que debe (y creo que puede mejorar). Ejemplo: La edición de la notación)....Ahí fallamos un poquito.... :-/
    ¡Soy un pesado e insistente....! ;)

    Saludos.

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by CRI-CRI on Jun 24th, 2010, 12:11pm
    Bof  :(

    Attaques mollassonnes et timbrage un peu cotonneux : le fameux Te Deum est normalement exécuté en rythme pointé (ou lombard) avec plein de trilles d'ornement cuivrés qu'on ne retrouve pas ici

    La timbale est quasi inexistante - idem pour les cuivres graves

    La faible définition du MP3 n'explique pas tout...

    Vous aurez compris que je n'apprécie pas du tout !

    Cordialement  ;)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Nicou59 on Jun 24th, 2010, 1:13pm
    Pas grave lol, je m'en remettrai  ;D

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Oliveira on Jun 24th, 2010, 3:38pm
    No sea usted tan exigente Christian.  ;D El archivo de Nicolás, es de sólo 80 bit. Eso resta mucha calidad de sonido........ ;
    Está muy bién logrado. ¡Yo no sabría hacerlo tan bién...! :-/
    ---
    En todo caso: Para mí el sonido que se puede lograr con H.A. es mas que suficiente. Lo que verdaderamente echo  de menos, son ciertas capacidades y funcionamientos mas correctos en la edición gráfica. Silencios, puntillos, ligaduras colisiones, direcciones automáticas de plicas combinadas, plantillas deficientes,  etc.etc.... :-/ :-/
    ¡Todo se andará, con buena voluntad!. Pero creo que antes de poner la chaqueta del traje, de debe poner antes, la camisa...........

    Saludos cordiales.  ;)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by gva on Jun 24th, 2010, 4:15pm
    CRI-CRI, revoyez votre système de reproduction sonore, il doit défaillir : la timbale est assez présente, les timbres suffisamment unis (le timbrage, je ne sais pas), et les attaques me semblent bien dosées plutôt que "mollassonnes". Quant à la non-abondance de trilles, je la considère comme un avantage.

    Pour moi, cette version est un excellent exemple des performances de HA, je ne me priverai pas de la faire entendre comme telle.

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Sylvain Machefert on Jun 24th, 2010, 10:10pm
    un peu d'accord avec CRI-CRI,

    la mélodie va très bien, le son en lui même est bon.
    la timbale va aussi, un chouilla + fort serait ok
    ce qui me gêne plus c'est l'accompagnement qui donne cet effet un peu mou (les cordes), et quelques trilles bien trop serrées.

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Nicou59 on Jun 24th, 2010, 10:30pm
    Les avis sont partagés à ce que je vois. De toute façon, cela n'avait pas la prétention d'être parfait.  ;)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by CRI-CRI on Jun 25th, 2010, 10:01am
    "sans critique, il n'est point d'éloge flatteur

    Je suppose que ce sont des trompettes de Gold 2 qui sont utilisées

    Pour les rares fois où je me suis essayé à ce genre de musique, j'ai pris comme compromis de panacher 90% de trompette SE avec 10% de... tuba SE pour donner à cette trompette un peu de l'attaque qui lui manque dans les harmoniques graves (eh oui, seul le vieil échantillon GMSE m'avait  paru sonner relativement "naturellement")

    Certes le timbrage (néologisme pas très heureux signifiant définition du timbre instrumental au niveau de l'échantillon) est meilleur sous Gold 2, mais la courbe dynamique est plate, et les harmoniques graves faiblardes

    Mon système de reproduction audio est de bonne qualité moyenne et n'est donc pas à mettre en cause

    Les cordes, les cuivres y compris et surtout le cor sont bien meilleurs à mon sens en GMSE qu'en Gold, mais ce n'est que mon avis

    Je rejoins enfin Sylvain : toutes ces contraintes impliquent d'aérer au maximum les ornements, et de charger un peu la ponctuation : je n'ai rien dit d'autre...

    Pour me faire pardonner je me livre à mon tour à votre critique éclairée : dites-moi franchement ce que vous pensez de la pièce ci-dessous (vous pouvez y aller franco, pas besoin de prendre de pincettes : j'ai le cuir épais)

    http://faivre_christian.myriad-users.com/F1519.html

    Merci d'avance

    Cordialement  ;)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Sylvain Machefert on Jun 25th, 2010, 2:22pm
    comme souvent, ce sont les cordes, un peu lentes et avec la reverb qui rendent un peu mou, genre le "doublage" automatique sur certains synthés piano+cordes.

    Très bonne présence des vents, timbales bien, un peu mitraillette par endroit.

    Cuivres pas assez présents ou claquants.

    Très belle pièce !


    ...mais je n'ai pas le meilleur système audio... tiens faudrait que je remette en service mon super casque...

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by CRI-CRI on Jun 25th, 2010, 6:57pm
    pour ceux que cela pourrait intéresser, le MP3 correspondant peut s'écouter ici :

    http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=1072958

    En effet, le forum ne peut pas embarquer au delà de 1 Mb par pièce jointe, et ce morceau fait 3,4 Mb...

    Cordialement  ;)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Nicou59 on Jun 25th, 2010, 7:54pm
    Je trouve le son de ta marche des matelots quelque peu synthétique. Comme pour mon adaptation, les cordes en sont les principales responsables. Les sons choisis pour les clarinettes et l'alto n'améliorent malheureusement pas les choses. Il manquerait aussi une légère réverbération derrière tout cela que je trouve un peu sec, manquant de largeur, mais ce n'est pas facile à obtenir.

    Pour mon arrangement, je reconnais la platitude liée aux cordes utilisées et le manque de pêche des temps forts, du début des phrases avec les trompettes... Je devrais pouvoir améliorer cela en jouant sur les volumes ou les vélocités plutôt...
    Pour les trilles, je pense qu'elles sont correctes (je viens de réécouter celles fabuleuses de Maurice André sur ce morceau) mais sonnant trop fortement par rapport au son de l'ensemble. Il n'est malheureusement pas facile de le rendre de façon moins mécanique : on ne peut pas accélérer ou ralentir la battue de ces effets comme le feraient les interprètes...

    Si je trouve plus de temps, j'essayerai de poster ici un jour une meilleure version.

    Cordialement

    ps : nous devrions poursuivre ces discussions en privé, en dehors de ce fil de messages du forum que nous polluons en ne publiant pas d'autres fichiers de démonstration...

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by LapDom on Nov 12th, 2010, 12:35am
    Salutations à tous,

    Depuis déjà un bout de temps, j'arrange et je remixe des fichiers midis téléchargés sur le site vgmusic.com (musiques de jeux vidéo), et voici le résultat pour quelques-uns d'entre eux.  

    En réponse à Nicou (qui m'avait adressé un commentaire dans un autre fil et auquel je me rends compte n'avoir impoliment pas fait suite), je dirai aussi que d'arranger des fichiers midis est une excellente façon de se familiariser plus en profondeur avec le logiciel : par exemple, c'est en arrangeant des fichiers midis que j'ai découvert les courbes de paramètres (la petite flèche verte dans le menu de la portée), et que je me suis fait la main avec l'outil « processeur d'effets ». Les fichiers ci-joints font aussi la part belle à l'utilisation des lois - i.e. dans plusieurs cas, un grand nombre d'instruments jouent simultanément la même mélodie sur la même portée. Non seulement ça facilite l'impression de la partition, mais c'est aussi une bonne pratique d'orchestration.

    Ok, sans plus de blabla, voici les fichiers, avec quelques informations à leur sujet. À noter que la pièce « Sendai Battle » tirée de Throne of Bhaal est ma propre interprétation, mais je la crois à 90+ % exacte.
    (Note : voir à la fin de la liste si vous voulez télécharger les 10 fichiers d'un coup)

    Final Fantasy VI - Terra's Theme (Nobuo Uematsu)
    (Flûtes & Shakuhachi, Cors, Guitare classique, Basse acoustique, Cordes lentes, Timbales & Percussions)
    http://www.mediafire.com/?0h1hm4109tbfbv4

    Mega Man II - Dr. Willy, Stage 1 (Kenji Yamazaki)
    (Synthés 'principal', Guitare électrique a/distorsion, Basse slapée, Percussions)
    (sur 3 portées)
    http://www.mediafire.com/?b6jzugwfpz0bls0

    Mega Man II - Airman (Kenji Yamazaki)
    (Synthés 'principal', Basse acoustique, Percussions)
    (sur 3 portées
    )
    http://www.mediafire.com/?u9a0c5f9tbpvbwa

    Sonic II - Chemical Plant Zone (Masato Nakamura)
    (Saxophones, Cuivres, Synthés, Orgues, Percussions)
    (sur 5 portées)
    http://www.mediafire.com/?19ahlh715l0fb6l

    Super Metroid - Green Brinstar (Kenji Yamamoto)
    (Marimbas, Ch½urs, Cordes, Guitare Jazz, Basses slapée & fretless, Percussions)
    (sur 4 portées)
    http://www.mediafire.com/?2wg598u2lb5t0cq

    Streets of Rage II - Stage 6 (Yuzo Koshiro)
    (Orgues, Synthés 'principal', Basses piquée & doigts, Pianos)
    http://www.mediafire.com/?u44largzcxykbbw

    Zelda ALttP - Dark Overworld (Koji Kondo)
    (Trombones, Cors, Cordes, Flûte, Basse acoustique, Percussions)
    (sur 4 portées)
    http://www.mediafire.com/?uwazeuz7u425nu4

    Castlevania III - Beginning (Akumajo Densetsu)
    (Synthés 'principal', Percussions)
    (sur 3 portées)
    http://www.mediafire.com/?4fz13iilr3r0e38

    Castlevania SotN - The Tragic Prince (Michiru Yamane)
    (Bois, Cuivres & Cordes, Guitare & basse électriques, Percussions)
    (sur 8 portées)
    http://www.mediafire.com/?zu46aa96u4w14vj

    Baldur's Gate 'Throne of Bhaal' - Sendai Battle (Inon Zur)
    (Bois, Cuivres, Cordes, Ch½ur d'hommes, Gong, Timbales & Percussions)
    http://www.mediafire.com/?p9ck64jc0199lm0

    Les 10 fichiers d'un coup (.rar)
    http://www.mediafire.com/?2ra5nysdeka0aee

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Nicou59 on Nov 12th, 2010, 9:02am
    LapDom, c'est vraiment un magnifique travail et un réel plaisir pour l'écoute ! Merci !  ;)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by LapDom on Nov 12th, 2010, 10:39pm
    Merci Nicou, ça fait plaisir à entendre ! Plaisir de savoir que le résultat n'est pas applicable qu'ici, avec mes haut-parleurs et mon casque d'écoute !  ;)

    Si je dis ça, c'est que je continue malgré tout d'avoir du mal à gérer le positionnement stéréo des instruments, la réverbération/profondeur, etc. Mais surtout, j'en 'arrache', comme on dit, pour obtenir un résultat qui sonnera aussi bien avec les écouteurs, qu'avec un ensemble de deux haut-parleurs, ou de cinq (je passe souvent de deux à cinq haut-parleurs à cause de certains jeux qui n'en tolèrent que deux...). Le résultat est souvent très différent, surtout avec ou sans écouteurs. Suis-je le seul à avoir ce genre de problèmes ?

    Argh, je sens que j'ai besoin de prendre un cours de mixage !

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Sylvain Machefert on Nov 12th, 2010, 11:12pm
    Je n'y connais rien en musique de jeu, mais le son est de très bonne qualité. Bravo pour ces belles démos !

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Sarra24 on Nov 16th, 2010, 11:15pm
    Thank you for your work

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Suricate on Jul 9th, 2011, 3:32pm
    La base de sons Gold 2 a déjà fait l'objet de plus de 3500 interventions depuis sa sortie. J'ai donc quelques scrupules à réactiver la question.
    Le règlage des effets de chaque instrument me semble toujours aussi difficile pour arriver à un son "réaliste".  ??? Encore une fois, un grand merci à Tom Duda qui m'a donné quelques pistes précieuses il y a déjà un petit moment.
    Les démos en mp3 (généralement de grande qualité sonore) ne permet pas de savoir ce qui a été retenu ni comme effet pour chaque instrument, ni comme paramètres d'humanisation, ni comme effet numérique du document,  ni ... etc.
    La consultation de "Gold Sound Database - Information about instrument" ne renseigne pas plus. Or j'ai le sentiment que pour les démos en mp3 associés, des effets sur l'instrument et sur le document ont été introduits. Ne pourrait-on pas ajouter ces informations qui seraient précieuses pour les utilisateurs ?

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Tremolo on Jul 9th, 2011, 8:45pm
    Bonsoir Suricate,


    Très juste, je souscris à cette demande...

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Tremolo on Feb 1st, 2018, 12:05am
    Je fais remonter ce sujet très intéressant...

    on 07/09/11 à 15:32:53, Suricate wrote:
    La base de sons Gold 2 a déjà fait l'objet de plus de 3500 interventions depuis sa sortie. J'ai donc quelques scrupules à réactiver la question.
    Le règlage des effets de chaque instrument me semble toujours aussi difficile pour arriver à un son "réaliste".  ??? Encore une fois, un grand merci à Tom Duda qui m'a donné quelques pistes précieuses il y a déjà un petit moment.
    Les démos en mp3 (généralement de grande qualité sonore) ne permet pas de savoir ce qui a été retenu ni comme effet pour chaque instrument, ni comme paramètres d'humanisation, ni comme effet numérique du document,  ni ... etc.
    La consultation de "Gold Sound Database - Information about instrument" ne renseigne pas plus. Or j'ai le sentiment que pour les démos en mp3 associés, des effets sur l'instrument et sur le document ont été introduits. Ne pourrait-on pas ajouter ces informations qui seraient précieuses pour les utilisateurs ?


    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Tremolo on Feb 14th, 2018, 10:35pm
    Histoire d'insister encore ...Serait-il possible, qu'à défaut de rentrer dans des explications complexes et qui prendraient du temps à écrire, les personnes qui ont posté ces démos puissent joindre les fichiers myr pour qu'on puisse regarder les réglages et autres géniales astuces ?

    Ce serait un formidable cadeau pour les amoureux de ce magnifique logiciel, toujours en transformation et amélioration...

    Merci d'avance.

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by muddle on Apr 15th, 2021, 5:37am
    Hi all , this is just a fun thing I found looking through old files.

    Standard gold base,  except I added a crowd noise for effect and  a bit of audacity reverb. ( since that's a reverb most users could have)

    hope it amuses someone....

     the muddle

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by Oliveira on Apr 15th, 2021, 6:53am
    :)! Genial!  :)

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by CRI-CRI on Dec 17th, 2023, 4:04am
    Une célèbre partition de Léopold Mozart, le père de Wolfgang,
    qui utilise des bruitages compris dans la base de sons Gold 2 :

    https://www.free-scores.com/partitions_telecharger.php?partition=50865

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by CRI-CRI on Dec 17th, 2023, 4:33am
    Royal Fireworks (4e) de Georg Friedrich Händel (Base Gold 2) :

    https://www.free-scores.com/partitions_telecharger.php?partition=35881

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by CRI-CRI on Dec 17th, 2023, 4:41am
    Fantaisie pour piano op.77 de Beethoven (Grand piano 1 de Gold 2)

    Cette pièce improvisée comprenait une introduction non mesurée :

    https://www.free-scores.com/partition?p=aEjtcbAAmK

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by CRI-CRI on Dec 17th, 2023, 4:55am
    Impromptu pour piano N° 3 op. 90 de Schubert

    Le son est une chimère qui panache les pianos 1 et 2 doux de Gold 2 :

    https://www.free-scores.com/partitions_telecharger.php?partition=41640

    Title: Re: Gold Sound Base MP3 Demos
    Post by CRI-CRI on Dec 17th, 2023, 5:10am
    Sinfonia BWV 29 de J-S Bach (grandes orgues 1 de Gold 2) :

    https://www.free-scores.com/partition?p=aVJKJOWwyw



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