On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:04:20AM -0600, The Other wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 10:53 pm, Paul Winkler wrote: > > 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. 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
