{"id":1606,"date":"2015-02-05T12:16:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2015-03-05T12:27:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:27:58","slug":"free-orchestra-sounds-and-free-sample-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"Free Orchestra Sounds and Free Sample Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d love to get some of the top-shelf orchestral libraries, but I don&#8217;t really have $2,000 lying around. And I love Free Things!<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to suggest taking a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/sso.mattiaswestlund.net\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra<\/a>. It&#8217;s free as in free speech and free beer. The quality is good, not great, but that&#8217;s all I need at my level.<\/p>\n<p>The SSO library uses the SFZ open format, and the only player I can find anymore is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plogue.com\/products\/sforzando\/\" target=\"_blank\">free SFZ sample player at Plogue<\/a>. I tried to find the Cakewalk SFZ player, but all I got were 404 errors.<\/p>\n<p>Plogue also kindly assembled a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plogue.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?t=7090\" target=\"_blank\">bunch of free samples<\/a> for the SFZ player from Garritan, Digital Sound Factory, Analog Industries, Patch Arena, and Plogue as well! And they&#8217;re free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some links to some free samples and sample players using the SFZ format. I was primarily interested in Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra to expand my symphonic sound pallette. (And I don&#8217;t have $2,000 to burn on orchestral samples!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[664,120],"tags":[903,881,882,744],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-technology","tag-music","tag-samples","tag-sfz","tag-vst","category-664-id","category-120-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}