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Sound recording:
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The carillon installed in the tower of the city hall has 35 bells made from Meissen porcelain, the lowest note being an a and the highest note g2. The bells are driven by solenoids with plasic tips, there is no velocity dynamic possible. For playing and composing with the original sound of the Weimar porcelain bells just download and unzip the soundfont.
In Linux use FluidSynth, in OS X you can put it in ~/Library/Audio/Sounds/Banks and use it with SimpleSynth.
Downloads
- Media:PorcelainCarillon Soundfont.zip Download the Weimar carillon as Soundfont
- Media:PorcelainCarillon PureDataPatch.zip Download the Weimar carillon as pd-patch
Links
- Radio Campanile
- Bertuch Verlag Weimar
- Turmuhrenbau Ferner
- Soundfont Tutorial how to import and use soundfonts in GarageBand
- Recommended OS X Apps