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BIRD TWEETING YOUR MUSIC

I used "Bird Tweet" as the instrument patch for all staves of Beethoven's "32 Variations in C Minor"(downloaded from the classical archives).

The effect is quite intriguing, especially for bird lovers.

Re: BIRD TWEETING YOUR MUSIC

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Talking of birds, shortly after we bought our first CD player back in 1987, we started our CD collection with William Christie playing some harpsichord works by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, which according to the sleeve notes was recorded in deepest France. The amazing thing is that in the quiet bits you can distinctly hear a bird chirping in the background - sounds like a Robin to me - and the effect in this relaxing music is absolutely stunning! So much for the perfect studio recording.

But to return to the previous posting, where would I be able to find the birdsong soundfont on the net, and would I be able to use it on my Soundblaster PCI 128 which uses Ensoniq wavetable modules.

Re: BIRD TWEETING YOUR MUSIC

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"Bird Tweet" is included in the "Instrument Patch" list that comes with Noteworthy Composer version 1.70(and probably with other versions as well).

The Instrument Patch list includes piano, organ, accordion, etc. You simply use "Bird Tweet" as your instrument. Beethoven's 32 Variations sounds like a forest full of birds at dawn.

It is possible that sound cards have a similar instrument list but I am not sure if they do or how you would get it to work. I am not an expert on sound cards. I am using SoundBlaster Live! which I just bought recently. The instruction manual is about the size of the New York telephone directory.

Good luck.

Gordon Bennett
 

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Jeremy asks if he can use a soundfont on a PCI 128. AFAIK the answer is no :^( The PCI series of cards use wavetables which are not the same thing at all. There seem to be only three varieties of wavetable: 2, 4 and 8 MB which provide improving quality versions of the same sounds. I have not come across any source of wavetables other than Ensoniq/Creative. Neither have I found softare that will generate wavetables. I suspsect that the format a) is proprietary and b) hasn't been released to third parties.