Realistic instruments
NoteFlight is a fantastic project, and I fully support it. I notice that there are a lot of votes for exporting to MP3 formats. However, I argue that it will not really be worth exporting to an audio format if the sound of the instruments sound like MIDI from 20 years ago. Would it be possible to include some high-quality instruments playback sounds, ones that would really make it worth-while to export from NoteFlight instead of first exporting to MIDI (or MusicXML) and then importing it into our own programs that do Soundfonts or something similar.
Jean Of mArc
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ziddy6
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They sound wonderful with Crescendo...
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Ben
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Torrent Sibelius
Export as MusicXML
Import to Sibelius
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Joseph Perry
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Yeah, I agree. Most of my favorite instruments sound like crap (brass) and I'd love the instruments to be able to switch between styles (mainly for jazz) Then export that into an mp3 and be like (I WROTE THIS, LISTEN!!!!!!)
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Sing King Killzone
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I think Kano is right, it does seem possible to do so. I think the engine itself is wonderful, but maybe customazation is a good thing to add as well.
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King Kano
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This all does seem like a good idea? You get your audio soundfont's from SONiVOX correct? I have some of their software, and I noticed I could down tone them and also raise the tone in exchange for faster or slower load time. It would optimize based off what the person was trying to use. Isn't there a way you can program Noteflight to do so?
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Orchus
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Provide a higher margin subscription (100$ a year) that allows to export or play based on a high quality sample database (Garritan?) that is server based.
Meaning in edit mode basic sound (local) is used but in Full mode the song is rendered on the server and delivered as an mp3 or equivalent.
People already pay for great sounds. Just make a deal with Garritan, just like Sibelius and Finale did, and let everyone, you guys included, reap the benefit! :)
Oh, and add a freaking timpani please! :p
Cheers,
Antoine
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dcuny
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Perhaps some sort of off-line rendering could be available? For example, instead of having Flash render with the downloaded samples, have the server render a final version with high-quality samples. So (for example) a staccato sound might still be a shortened regular sound, but the high-quality renderer could use staccato samples when rendering a final version.
Hrm... I've suddenly got visions of people overloading Noteflight's servers in order to render their projects, instead of purchasing something like GPO for themselves.
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Jean Of mArc
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Hmmmm... good point. Perhaps there can be an option somewhere that can load higher-quality instruments if selected? Then flash can either re-load, or spend time loading the better instruments for the user? I know I would certainly use it, and I'm sure others would too when they really want to hear what their composition sounds like.
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Adminjoeberkovitz
(Admin, Noteflight)
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The instruments do not sound great, for an important reason: they are optimized for fast download, which means they are mono, 22kHz, and heavily looped. Most users seem to like the fater download time and are asking for a broader range of instruments, but not necessarily for really good sounding ones which would slow the download a lot.
We are about to release MIDI export, which ought to help.
