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This project began as a quest to find a really good software piano. Not even the expensive commercial versions were satisfying to my ears. Most had velocity switching problems and unpleasant tones. I came across the University of Iowa Steinway piano samples which were great but there was room for improvement in the way they were presented. My goal was to have a selection of piano and other instruments that were pleasant to play and to keep them available for free. Using SoundFont editing programs Polyphone and Viena I have done some editing to allow for expression to give a more enjoyable and realistic playing experience where timbre changes gradually with velocity where possible and without that annoying jump that is commonly found. This was applied to many of the other instruments as well.
Polyphone does an excellent job where necessary at auto looping and reducing sample sizes without compromising sound quality.
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The Salamander Grand (Yamaha C5) has by nature so many velocity samples that it already has a great expressive sound. I have normalised the samples and re-attenuated them to suit sf2 format and simplified it by leaving out some pedal noises and other non-critical sounds. Cut-off frequencies have been adjusted for extra expression and using Wavosaur I have removed the gaps at the front of the samples to greatly reduce latency.
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This is my first post. I actually came to this forum looking for tips, and recommendations on good soundfont (sf2) files and it has been very useful.
Anyhow I have spent a bit of time perfecting a really nice Steinway Grand Piano Soundfont I found from this site New Horizon Orchestra
so I thought I would share it here.
The licence is Creative Commons (sharable) provided the author is acknowledged. Licence Creative Commons ? Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported ? CC BY-ND 3.0
My amendments include adding two new presets (Steinway Bright and Steinway Classic) as well as some improvements to the velocity switching.
You can download the zipped version (264mb) from here:
https://sites.google.com/site/soundfonts4u/
(Edit: Now linked to my webpage which will be updated from time to time)
I have the full versions of Korg Module and iGrand as well as a $4000 Korg keyboard but I must say my favorite piano is now this free Steinway.
If you are using iPad or iPhone and you don't have a soundfont player I can highly recommend bs-16i from Bismark which you can download from the app store for about $15 and midi connect via apple camera connection kit.
The Steinway is astounding in detail (every note is sampled and some samples are over 60 seconds in length!). It feels very natural to play and is quite dynamic over different velocities.
I have run it on both the iPhone 6s and the ipad air2 and it performs without latency.
I'd be interested to hear your comments on this soundfont.
Cheers,
John