Piano soundfonts/soft synths etc

[PaulD]

What you all using for your piano sounds,can anyone recommend
any good soundfounts or virtual pianos that have a
good sound??

Dont mind if there free or not.


PaulD

[Bobby Watson]

Most of my piano sounds come from Reason Pianos or Reason Abbey Road Keyboards. Sometimes I use Garritan or Native Instruments. But, I'm quite happy with Reason. Of course, that's not much use to you, unless you are a Reason user..

There are a few large piano soundfonts out there for free that aren't too bad. I used to use some of them myself. If you can't run them down with a search, I could probably point you the right direction. I probably still have them on my server.
Good Luck,
BW@

[Tacman7]

Hey Bobby,

I'd like to try a soundfont or two.

I have an old emu hardware sampler that I'm trying to use. I convert them into the emu format but not everything works. It's easy to exceed the capabilities of the machine (128mb). The sampler adds its own sound so you never know what you will get. Fun to play with though...


Thanks

[Bobby Watson]

Try this link...
They are compressed with SFark... It is an excellent archiver for soundfonts.
If you don't have the utility, download the sfark.zip and install it. Then you can un-compress the soundfonts.


These are "free" soundfonts of varied sizes. May some of them will be useful to you.
Regards,
BW@

http://echoprojectstudio.org/temporary/sfark/

[Studioplayer]

Mind if I try those out Bobby? 

[Bobby Watson]

Sure, like I said, they are public domain...
BW@

[Bobby Watson]

What the heck. For a little personal exposure, I've included one of my own.
It's EPS_Grand_Piano. It will expand to just under 90megs.

Not the greatest in the world. But, I thought it was pretty good at the time.

On my personal soundfont or VSTi development, I'm always receptive for comments.

BW@

[CosmicDolphin]

Is anyone using Pianoteq ?  I read the reviews and it seems quite interesting...done through acoustic modelling rather than samples......especially as it's only 8mb !

CosmicD

[PaulD]

Sounds pretty good,sometimes seems a bit thin though.

Might give it a go.

Thx for sharing the link.

Paul

[Blades]

Have you had a chance to check out TruePianos at http://www.truepianos.com ?  Very small, sounds really good, and is relatively inexpensive compared to other piano libs out there - I think it runs around $150.  Check out the demo (and the demo music they have on their site) - it's a very playable piano.

[PaulD]

Have you had a chance to check out TruePianos at http://www.truepianos.com ?  Very small, sounds really good, and is relatively inexpensive compared to other piano libs out there - I think it runs around $150.  Check out the demo (and the demo music they have on their site) - it's a very playable piano.

Yeah ive been using that one for the last few songs ive done,its pretty good.

PaulD

[Johnny-Boy]

Sometime I want to give these a try:   http://www.williamcoakley.com/piano.php?product=V

The demos sound great.

Best, John

[PaulD]

Sometime I want to give these a try:   http://www.williamcoakley.com/piano.php?product=V

The demos sound great.

Best, John

Yeah  John , the demos sound really great,pitty i havent got $349 to spend at the moment.

Paul