On 12/8/2014 2:27 AM, Tom Evans wrote:
I'm confused; I'm looking for instrument sounds, but you've separated
that into instruments and libraries of sounds. What's the difference?
There isn't just a single sound that a piano or a violin or a tuba or an
electronic drum makes. A good sample "library" will have many versions
of each instrument played in different ways, over different ranges (you
don't just play middle C, shift the pitch up and down the scale, and
have a piano), and at different volumes. So your "Steinway 8 foot Grand
Piano" is actually a library of sounds from a single piano. A good VSTI
will detect things like the MIDI velocity and pick the sounds from the
library that sound like a piano played with that touch. Since real piano
players play with dynamics, throughout a song, there may be a number of
different samples of the same piano playing the same note.
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