Rhapsody Player

[kobraji]

Hello everyone, I recently came across Rhapsody player, (as its developer himself stated, it is designed to load their libraries, but it is open to third parties).
Librewave instruments are high quality and very playable,
I was able to verify it with their new library (Bell and Bone), which is currently free but I think not for long, it is a trumpet and a jazz trombone, these instruments demonstrate the benefits of this format, I am not an expert but I am sure There are options here that would be impossible to implement in SFZ. I myself am a defender of the open format and that is why I love SFZ. I would not like to pay for a library and have the plugin discontinued in a few years and I lose my investment, but Rhapsody is open source. That's why I'm hopeful that developers will adopt this format as it has real benefits.
Something that many may hate but that I like is having complex instruments sampled in monolithic files since the compression and decompression is much faster and moving your library to another disk is very fast, in my case I prefer a 5 gigabyte piano, in monolithic files, than having a folder with 15000 samples and an SFZ file, that's just my thought, for creative sampling it's something else.
I was really surprised by Bell and Bone with different types of mute, and with Growl which is not often seen even in libraries of companies with commercial fame,
Thank you David Healey for allowing us to try a library as versatile as this one on Linux. (I don't think it will be free forever).
https://librewave.com/product/bell-and-bone/

[alex stone]

Yep, seconded. I've been trying Bell and Bone this evening, and it's interesting. The plugin layout is excellent, simple and easy to understand. The articulation list takes the hard work out of trying to remember where keyswitches are, and importantly, what they are.

I'm a fan of the Rhapsody/library construct. The big test will be how many instances can be loaded at once in a project, particularly for large orchestral projects.

Thumbs up from me for David and his work.

Note: I tested this in Reaper, and my OS is the mighty AVL-MXDE. (AVL Linux with the enlightenment desktop)

[d.healey]

I don't know how I missed this thread!

I'm glad you're enjoying Bell & Bone, I'm really pleased with how it came out, although I already have some plans to improve the legato. It is free of charge permanently.

Rhapsody is a launcher for instruments built with HISE. So the idea is you build your instrument in HISE and you run it with Rhapsody without the need to compile it or build installers for you users. A couple of other developers have already released instruments for Rhapsody.

Rhapsody instruments are installed as monolithic samples and one or more data files. The main instrument data file is called info.hxi. All Rhapsody hxi fles can be decompressed within HISE back into a HISE project, so you will always have access to the original source.

[kobraji]

Thanks David Haealey, what good news.
Rhapsody instruments in Pianobook..
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/open-strings/
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/layer ... lar-synth/

[d.healey]

Thanks David Haealey, what good news.
Rhapsody instruments in Pianobook..
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/open-strings/
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/layer ... lar-synth/

Aha that's cool