# Oi from Brasilia, Brazil! **URL:** https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/oi-from-brasilia-brazil/4223 **Category:** Introductions & Stories **Created:** [July 20, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/oi-from-brasilia-brazil/4223 "2020-07-20T17:13:29Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![ethancrawford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@ethancrawford](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/ethancrawford) #### Post date: [July 21, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/oi-from-brasilia-brazil/4223/5 "2020-07-21T02:11:35Z")
For using samples, no, we don’t recognise the pitch content in them. It’s up to the user to sort and trigger them according to manual classification, using `sample` instead of `play`. To a degree, we can even change the pitch of a sample to make it fit a certain note, but it is of course useful if the sample collection already provides a spread of ‘notes’! Having said all that, there’s definitely people here that have often used samples for instruments. Here’s a useful post: > [@Adding an Orchestra to Sonic Pi Using Samples](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/adding-an-orchestra-to-sonic-pi-using-samples/141): > > Adding an Orchestra to Sonic Pi Using Samples Where to get some orchestra samples [Orchestra Samples](http://virtualplaying.com) Download, unzip and move selected samples to a sample directory. I used sampath = “c:/home/pi/samples/” Here is the code that makes it work: #Example1.rb # Sonic Pi Wav Orchestra # you will need to download the wav files from # http://virtualplaying.com # unzip and copy selected files to a folder defined by # the samps variable below # use sampath to point ot the folder where the wav files # … For synths, I don’t know so much about hardware, but there are plenty of free software synths out there. Some may require you to also use a ‘VST host’ program to run the synths as virtual instruments inside them, but there are free varieties of those also. Some free software synths: [Helm by Matt Tytel](https://tytel.org/helm/) (which can run by itself as a standalone program), [https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/](https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/), … and plenty more floating around as VST plugins that may provide more realistic traditional instrument sounds. --- _[View the full topic](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/oi-from-brasilia-brazil/4223)._