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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Excalibur on October 04, 2007, 12:41:16 am

Title: Piano Sample Sounds
Post by: Excalibur on October 04, 2007, 12:41:16 am

Does anyone know where to get free high quality sample sounds from a grand piano?
I've tried google, but it comes up with songs or invalid sites, which I don't want.

Any help very much appreciated. :)

Title: Re: Piano Sample Sounds
Post by: Davros on October 04, 2007, 01:59:55 am

do you have an audigy or x-fi ?
just load a soundfound
(http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/7539/image2pj7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

and play it back with the keyboard
(http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/9328/image1qj0.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

free 40mb soundfont of a 1897 Steinway model-C (7foot,5inch) grand piano here :
http://www.pianosounds.com/freesoundfont.htm

Title: Re: Piano Sample Sounds
Post by: Flipside on October 04, 2007, 10:48:01 am

Soundfonts are probably the best way to go, I use Kontact which has some awesome Piano samples, but they are in a proprietary format, are enormous, and cost a bloody fortune.

Title: Re: Piano Sample Sounds
Post by: Excalibur on October 04, 2007, 11:07:47 pm

I used to have a Creative, and still do, but I've got a Fortissimo II installed at the moment, and I don't know exactly how to use the SMT/MIDI files/soundbanks or whatever their called.

I have Modplug Tracker, that's why I sort of want a .wav sample - it supports MIDI though, mabye I can extract the sound from the soundbank. The only thing that has put me off that so far is that the MIDI files(songs) are silent when I play them.

Btw, Thanks for the help :)

EDIT: that's it, they're .sf2 files. I downloaded the Steinway sf2 soundbank. Now to see if I can get the sounds to play.

Title: Re: Piano Sample Sounds
Post by: Davros on October 05, 2007, 02:30:20 am

soundfont editor
http://www.hammersound.net/mirrors/last_night/sf.htm

Title: Re: Piano Sample Sounds
Post by: Flipside on October 05, 2007, 07:24:02 am

Check your Audio settings and make sure the Midi playback is assigned to the right device, this can be particuarly annoying when you have a disabled onboard sound-device on your motherboard, even if you turn it off in the Bios, you can still have drivers laying around that confuse the system.

I had a Fortissimo for a while, quite a nice card actually :)