Here’s a revised file that includes all the notes missing between G0 and C#1.
Amersfoort OLV (Eijsbouts).sfz.zip (2.0 KB)
The C#1 sample is much lower volume than the rest. That can be adjusted in the SFZ, but I’ve just used a pitch range on the C0 and below samples to cover more notes.
Something strange happened when I downloaded it. When I drag the new file into Sforzando it lists the new notes but says 'Error, no sound asset loaded. Not found. Am I doing it wrong? The file is only 5 KB.
Yes, it’s just the SFZ, which you need to replace the original, wherever that is on your disk.
Look at the Sforzando Setting panel, to see where third-party SFZ files are stored.
Should I just dump the first file in the trash?
Also, the Settings panel in Fz doesn’t have any place to list SFZ files (or at least I don’t see one).
There is also the Lurie Carillon (60 bells, Michigan)
Samples : Download Lurie Carillon samples – Carillons at the University of Michigan
Sfz over here: Practice keyboard bell samples - Chime Master Help
Sample 11 is late and needs some care.
These are nice too! (One bell is a little out of tune, but that’s actually interesting–if you don’t have perfect pitch.) Just going thru the process of compiling them in a sfz file took me to another level down the carillon rabbit hole. I don’r know what I did, but it works in Dorico. Thank you graffesmusic for putting them up here.
The SFZ file needs some work, but who knew there were so many carillon samples out there!
It is true, I have only added the bell samples for which a key is present on my practice keyboard.
Carillons here in Europe seldom have a low C#, every octave the weight (and size) of a bell gets bigger with a factor 8, so if a bell sounding c2 weighs about 375kg, an octave lower the c1 bell weighs about 3000kg! Bronze is a not-so-cheap metal, so money and room are a very big concern! The lowest carillon bell ever made (Riverside church, New York) weighs almost a whopping 20.000kg… These are VERY expensive!
By coincidence Amersfoort has a low C# and even a low B, but that is very rare!
There are no two carillons the same, compass and total weight are unique to every instrument, smallest has 17 bells, biggest 78, total weight vary from about 600kg to 100.000kg, no standard.
Included the changed .sfz, now includes all real bell samples from Bb0 to G5 (58 bells almost 5 octaves), and also the missing low bells between B0 and G0, by transposing the lowest real Bb0.
Amersfoort OLV (Eijsbouts).zip (1.6 KB)
There are settings in the Sforzando panel, see:
And yes there are many samples to be found, but a lof of them are not very good. For my purpose the Amersfoort samples are simply the best. But with some work you can make some of them better usable, needs some fiddling with a sound editor like Audacity, and some tweaking with the parameters in the .sfz file, which I did for the supplied samples.
I’m sorry. I’m still stumped. When I go to ‘user files path’ it’s empty. When I drag the new sfz you just sent it gives me the error message I listed above. When I drag in the original sfz you sent it opens, but the user file path is still empty. When I click on ‘set’ it takes me to my desktop, where the new sfz is grayed out. The old sfz is in a file on the desktop, the new one is just sitting on the desktop. I don’t know how to fix this.
Also, thanks for the info on carillons. I just took a tour of the one at the University of Chicago. What a great sound!
Then swap the old file and the new file.
The simplest thing would be to add a file path to the User path in Sforzando. Then you just put the SFZ files and samples at that location, and Sforzando will find them automatically.
When I click ‘set file path’ it takes me to either file, but they’re both grayed out.
Yes, the location where you want your files has to be a folder, not a file.
I put the new one in a f and imported it, and it works!
What a wonderful picture of people working together is reflected in this thread!
Indeed, very nice.
Jesper
I agree, and thank you all so much. Not only do I have a working carillon (four, actually) I learned a great deal about working with .sfz files, Kontakt, Sforzando, Pigments 6, BBedit, and, of course how to install and use various sound libraries for my pieces in Dorico (the original goal). I also learned how to use my midi controller to input notes. Who knew?
We’ve also compiled a list of carillon sound libraries in one place where others can find them as well.
I’ll be back as soon as I’m confused again–hopefully not by the same issues!
That is one of the biggest and heaviest of them all!
