[LAU] Yamaha Disklavier Pro grand piano (132MiB, new improved version)

[Stephen Doonan]

Roberto Gordo Saez wrote:
> This is the new release of the Yamaha Disklavier Pro acoustic grand
> piano soundfont. It is much improved, including a total of 5 velocity
> layers.
> [...]
> Download the soundfont here:
> http://zenvoid.org/i/audio.html


Thank you very much, Roberto, for creating and making available this 
soundfont. I would very much like to try it. However, I don't know the 
most about soundfonts and how to use them.

I downloaded the soundfont and imported it into qsynth, to play with my 
external MIDI keyboard. Is this the way you yourself would use the 
soundfont (with qsynth)? Or would you load the soundfont into some other 
software or hardware?

In qsynth, the base layer (piano) is triggered on MIDI channel 1, and 
the other velocity layers (piano layer 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5) are assigned (by 
default, anyway) to MIDI channels 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

So, I'm wondering how to trigger the velocity layers. Perhaps this is 
not something qsynth can do. I don't know, because I have mostly used 
external hardware, MIDI tone generators, and for piano, the piano 
samples by William Coakley for the Yamaha Motif Rack and the Roland 
Fantom XR tone generators.

However, I would very much like to try to use your soundfont, if it is 
possible.

Thanks again for your efforts and for this gift to the Linux and 
open-source world.

Steve