[LAD] piano sound fonts

[Jeremy Jongepier]

On 06/17/2010 04:41 PM, Simon Burton wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> So I'm banging around some piano samples:
> 
> http://pythonicle.net/sounds/output-7.ogg
> http://pythonicle.net/sounds/output-7.mp3
> 
> using phasing (a la Steve Reich) and some piano samples I found here:
> 
> http://www.pianosounds.com/freesoundfont.htm
> 
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a more comprehensive (non-free even)
> piano sound palette ?
> 
> I use python code* and was very happy to be able to import soundfont files.
> 
> I see also these gigasampler files, maybe i can use libgig to access those (?)
> 
> *Here are all my secrets: http://pythonicle.net/svn/projects/dsptools
> Take a look if you are curious. There is python wrappers for using numpy
> with ladspa and portaudio. And i forget what else. One of these days
> I might get around to cleaning all this up, but right now I need to 
> make sounds just to bring some sanity into my world.
> 
> bye for now,
> 
> Simon.

Hello Simon,

In GIGA format there are two quite good piano packs:
http://download.linuxsampler.org/instruments/pianos/maestro_concert_grand_v2.rar
http://sonart.cc/media/free/Sonart_YC7_free.rar

Best,

Jeremy