How do you get "normal" sounding instruments in Renoise?

[James_Britt (James Britt / Neurogami)]

There are assorted free instrument packages around. Often not in xrni format but you can convert.

For example:

Free Orchestral Sample Library

Hi all, Again I’ve been browsing the interwebs and this time I’ve come across the Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra, which is a free CC-licensed orchestral sample library. The download is ~440Mb and contains 57 instruments in SFZ format (12 brass, 3 chorus, 1 harp, 1 piano, 10 percussion, 16 strings and 14 wind instruments). These can be imported into Renoise instruments with the FileFormat tool (disclaimer: I wrote that tool). I’ve noticed that the tool fails to correctly reference the sample fil…

There’s also this thread (and probably more like it if you search)

Where can I find quality Renoise XRNI instruments?

I absolutely love Renoise. I come from a digital composing background, with fond memories of AdLib Tracker 2. I haven’t once regretted my decision to purchase Renoise, and I recommend it at every opportunity. Although I started out making chiptune-style music, I’m interested in branching out to other genres. I’m looking for polyphonic and realistic instruments that make use of more effects. I’d like to explore composing classical music. But I don’t know where to start looking for good XRNIs. Th…