The aim is to grab the sound of an expensive/good (desired) instrument and to apply it to a cheap/bad one to get a better sound.

Who has an experience on matching the sounds, which plugins are good for that?

 

Fabfilter, Logic EQ, Geraint Spectrum Matcher (free, Reaper JSFX, very CPU intensive) are very good at it. If you can live with only 7 bands for matching, MAutoDynamicEQ does a passable job. I think MFreeformEQ has far more bands, so might be much better at it.


However, dynamics, saturation/distortion, stereo image, reverb are not included in the EQ match and those are equally important.

 

Thanks, I'd like to make some processing with acoustic instruments, mostly brass and strings capturing references,
so, distortion fx, maybe, isn't been greeting there,

I did reasearch using Google and perplexity.ai
but they show only morphing/stem separation software...and nothing about capture of sound

 

if you have access to that desired instrument, you can capture its Impulse Response and use it in some IR loader, it's a common practice with guitar amps/racks and real reverbs

 

Use the SSL Bus Compressor 2 & sonible smart:EQ ---> www.bestservice.com/en/ssl_bus_compressor_2_sonible_smart_eq.html

 

Sorry if I'm missing the point here, but why not just grab a sample of the expensive instrument and then playback that? That way you wont need to bother working with bad sounding instruments in the first place and also, you could spend your time making music rather than making something bad sound better!

 

Shorter: I can't hire a symphonic orchestra, if you can, then you're happy...
most of software I know, designed exactly to lower expenses... I started the topic people to share their experience on matching
sounds...
They explain it:
How EQ Matching Works**

1. **Reference Spectrum Capture**: The first step in EQ matching is to select or record a reference spectrum from an audio source, which can be an isolated instrument track or a full mix. This reference serves as the target sound profile that the user wants to replicate
PS. Red line is what my topic about

 

Responding to legitimate questions with obnoxious replies won't win you many friends in life. Just something for you to consider in future.

 

So buy a good symphonic library. The recording is 80% of the sound quality/analog warmth/insert here another generic concept.
Using convolution to mimic real spaces and enviroment to make the sounds less dull.

You can get those tools even if you're on budget. There are tons of them on the internet. Easier than reiventing the wheel

 

I suspect that AI based tools will soon do a good job of cloning the playing and style of a recording to a different instrument, like in voice cloning.

EQ alone might give you a better sound and help you to get somewhat closer if you're able to set up enough dynamic EQ responses controlled by automation, but it's very unlikely to substitute the use of better instruments in the first place.

 

just get some kontakt packs bro

 

Thanks,cap, but I use Kontakt since 4th version...and more I already posted a reply to some one's post here, that I have several piano Kontakt libraries, plus VST synths, but couldn't get a decent sound with them (separately or alltogether) for particular piece

 

You can try your luck here:

Digital Suburban - Dexed FM Plugin Synth
Dexed is a multi platform, multi format plugin synth that is closely modeled on the Yamaha DX7. Dexed is also a midi cartridge librarian/manager for the DX7.
https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/

Nils‘ K1v – Kawai K1 Emulation Plugin VSTi/AU
https://www.nilsschneider.de/wp/nils-k1v/