[linux-audio-user] Which is the best way to simulate a real piano under gnu/Linux? Here's my proposal.

[Cesare Marilungo]

Chris Reisor wrote:

>On 12/13/05, Cesare Marilungo <cesare at poeticstudios.com> wrote:
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>>So far I have a nice (but not impressive) soundfont downloaded here:
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>>http://www.hum.aau.dk/~bovbjerg/piano4.html
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>>I'm on a 64k isdn connection so I can't download and try every free
>>sample on the net.
>>While experimenting to achieve a more natural sound I tried
>>dssi_convolve with some IRs downloaded from noisevault.com and got a
>>nicer result.
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>>Now, I've just been inspired by the Florian Shmidth dssi_convolve entry
>>on his blog and I decided to create an om patch with everything I need
>>to have a realistic piano, with:
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>>- the samples already loaded when I open the patch (I think I can use
>>fluidsynth-dssi, with a good soundfont);
>>- the patch will send the notes to two different responses according to
>>the state of the damper pedal (I'm not sure this could be done with om);
>>- it would be great to simulate also the resonance of other notes when
>>the damper pedal is pressed or other keys are already pressed;
>>- it would be great also to simulate a true hammer action;
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>>I think it would be good for the community to have something similar or
>>better than the Steinberg The Grand VSTi. What's your opinion? Can you
>>help me?
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>>Or I am doing something that's already been done? In this case, where
>>can I find it?
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>>Regards,
>>c.
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>>www.cesaremarilungo.com
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>I have found great piano soundfonts here:
>http://www.ibiblio.org/thammer/HammerSound/
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>There's a really good Steinway.  Load that into qsynth, and you're off.
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>--chris reisor
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As I said, I'm on a 64k connection (DSL is not available where I live).

I've already downloaded a sf file from there (Steinway_Model_C_sf2.zip, 
30Mb) but, at least with qsynth, I get a very poor sounds and some 
adjacent notes seem to come from different directions, or from different 
distances. Maybe it's a software problem, but the soundfont from the 
link in my original message doesn't have this problem.

Could you please point me at a direct url for the file?

c.