You are all way ahead of me. I'm building a music player for my parish church bells. I've used lmms for creating the hourly chimes with a bell sample I found....Now I want to play some songs with the same sample. I'm importing midi files I find, but things don't sound good.
Within the register around middle C, the sample sounds fine....but in the higher registers, the bell sample sounds like a toy xylophone; nothing like I'd want from my church's bells. The bell sample sounds really muddy in the lower registers, like a truck running past my house kind of muddy. The bell sample doesn't really sound like a bell.
So....how can I create a bell sound that sounds like a bell in the lower and higher registers?
I can think of a few options:
1) edit the song after importing the midi to exclude notes outside of the middle C register. I don't like this so much because tracks with good harmonies must be dropped. This is doable.
2) find samples that play well in the higher and lower registers. The problem with this.....there are very few free samples available....If anyone knows of some good church bell samples to buy.....I'm willing to pay a few bucks; but they have to have good sounds in the higher and low registers. I like a church bell with some resonance....a lingering sound after the song ends.
2a) If I get three different samples, one for middle-C, the other for higher and another for lower registers, is there any way to get them to sound alike?
3) ?
Any ideas? Thanks.
Within the register around middle C, the sample sounds fine....but in the higher registers, the bell sample sounds like a toy xylophone; nothing like I'd want from my church's bells. The bell sample sounds really muddy in the lower registers, like a truck running past my house kind of muddy. The bell sample doesn't really sound like a bell.
So....how can I create a bell sound that sounds like a bell in the lower and higher registers?
I can think of a few options:
1) edit the song after importing the midi to exclude notes outside of the middle C register. I don't like this so much because tracks with good harmonies must be dropped. This is doable.
2) find samples that play well in the higher and lower registers. The problem with this.....there are very few free samples available....If anyone knows of some good church bell samples to buy.....I'm willing to pay a few bucks; but they have to have good sounds in the higher and low registers. I like a church bell with some resonance....a lingering sound after the song ends.
2a) If I get three different samples, one for middle-C, the other for higher and another for lower registers, is there any way to get them to sound alike?
3) ?
Any ideas? Thanks.