2 Jan
2007
2 Jan
'07
10:18 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:04:20AM -0600, The Other wrote:
On Monday 01 January 2007 10:53 pm, Paul Winkler
wrote:
That sounds pretty expensive by todays standards.
You can buy a full giga piano for $39.. (see Steiny D and Steiny
D close):
http://www.sampletekk.com/products.php?cat=44
Or lots of other nice pianos from $50...
Big downloads, but much greater accuracy than any soundfont.. All
should work fine with LinuxSampler.
I used to use the $5 Trachtman soundfont until I heard what a
giga piano sounded like. Now I would never go back.
James
A mini-review for those also looking for decent
piano soundfonts:
So far with help from this list I've found the following usable,
in order of preference:
1) WST25FStein_00Sep22.SF2
Free and quite natural-sounding to my ears,
from http://www.pianosounds.com/freesoundfont.htm
2) TrachtmanSteinC_XFade2_2001Aug16.sf2
$5 US, by far the most "hi-fi" of the three, but a bit
bright for my taste, also it's recorded a bit lower so you'll need
to increase the output volume.
from http://www.pianosounds.com/
3) NS_Piano.sf2
Free, has pleasant tone, if a bit lacking in the bass and treble;
also the stereo image is very narrow, almost mono.
the creator describes it as "a natural, woody, mellow sounding
piano", from http://www.naturalstudio.co.uk/ns_piano.html
At $35 USD, StudioAX's Grand Piano One soundfont has pleased me since
the mid 1990's. It's available only through Internet download. The
following link takes you to the download section where you can listen
to MP3 demos. All upgrades are free and have worked for me since I
first got version 1.1.
http://studioax.desertsites.net/download.html
Stephen.