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Free Quality SoundFonts (Sf2)

79 points by hggh 2y ago

MichailP 2y ago
Is anyone aware of open source piano sound synthesis software? Something like Pianoteq, but open?
- montag 2y ago
  If you mean physically modeled piano synthesis, then I'm unaware, but also very interested to know
- NikkiA 2y ago
  https://github.com/michele-perrone/OpenPiano https://github.com/michele-perrone/OpenPiano I don't think there are any useful plugin builds of it, though, even though it's built on Juce
  - Joeboy 2y ago
    Somewhat discouraging demo / issue: https://github.com/michele-perrone/OpenPiano/issues/3 https://github.com/michele-perrone/OpenPiano/issues/3
    - boudin 2y ago
      The readme make it clear it's very much work in progress: Right now, Open Piano sounds like a strangely out of tune piano with no soundboard and only one string per note.
      - Joeboy 2y ago
        > work in progress In the euphemistic sense. In the literal sense, there are no commits for over a year.
- boudin 2y ago
  I searched quite a bit a few month back and coulsn't find anything. I ended up buying a Pianoteq licence, having native Linux support convinced me.
gary_0 2y ago
As an (extremely) amateur musician I've had hours of fun with free soundfonts like these and the open source LMMS[0], which was nice and familiar to me since I'd played with pirated copies of FruityLoops (now FL Studio) as a teenager. [0] https://lmms.io/ https://lmms.io/
montag 2y ago
Good resource. Some of the piano SoundFonts here are available in https://chiptune.app https://chiptune.app (Yamaha Grand Lite 1.1, Chateau Grand Lite 1.0, Abbey Steinway D 1.9, Steinway Grand 1.0). Play a MIDI file, open Settings tab, find them at bottom of SoundFont menu. (You can also drag-and-drop SF2 files.)
spintin 2y ago
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reneberlin 2y ago
SBAWE32 + YAMAHA XG-50 was the burner at that time for me.
signaru 2y ago
For those who want to broaden their options and are not really constrained to only using SF2, the SFZ format has a similar purpose and there are many free instruments as they are easy to create (a text markup referring to the, typically WAV, audio files as is). Plogue sforzando [0] (freeware) is my favorite plugin for SFZ files. I learned about SFZ via an orchestra set called the Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra [1,2]. [0] https://www.plogue.com/products/sforzando.html https://www.plogue.com/products/sforzando.html [1] https://sso.mattiaswestlund.net/ https://sso.mattiaswestlund.net/ [2] https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/81?class=related-link https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/81?class=related-lin...
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catapart 2y ago
Sweet! I built a little plug-and-play digital MIDI controller and published it with the Salamander Grand Piano samples, so I could use any smart phone to have MIDI playback. I had always planned on grabbing more samples but I did everything from "scratch" (webaudio, but no audio lib), so I was just taking shots in the dark about what downsampling I could do while retaining quality (you can see, on the website, I missed the mark; the samples are degraded: [0]). Hopefully, I can use these free sound fonts - at the very least - as a basis for sound sample quality. But it looks like I could probably just add sf2 and sfz support to my controller, which would open up all of these instruments for me. That's a pretty exciting goal! Thanks for sharing! [0] https://www.midi-speaker.com https://www.midi-speaker.com

79 points by hggh 2y ago

MichailP 2y ago

Is anyone aware of open source piano sound synthesis software? Something like Pianoteq, but open?

montag 2y ago
If you mean physically modeled piano synthesis, then I'm unaware, but also very interested to know
NikkiA 2y ago
https://github.com/michele-perrone/OpenPiano https://github.com/michele-perrone/OpenPiano I don't think there are any useful plugin builds of it, though, even though it's built on Juce
- Joeboy 2y ago
  Somewhat discouraging demo / issue: https://github.com/michele-perrone/OpenPiano/issues/3 https://github.com/michele-perrone/OpenPiano/issues/3
  - boudin 2y ago
    The readme make it clear it's very much work in progress: Right now, Open Piano sounds like a strangely out of tune piano with no soundboard and only one string per note.
    - Joeboy 2y ago
      > work in progress In the euphemistic sense. In the literal sense, there are no commits for over a year.
boudin 2y ago
I searched quite a bit a few month back and coulsn't find anything. I ended up buying a Pianoteq licence, having native Linux support convinced me.

gary_0 2y ago

As an (extremely) amateur musician I've had hours of fun with free soundfonts like these and the open source LMMS[0], which was nice and familiar to me since I'd played with pirated copies of FruityLoops (now FL Studio) as a teenager. [0] https://lmms.io/ https://lmms.io/

montag 2y ago

Good resource. Some of the piano SoundFonts here are available in https://chiptune.app https://chiptune.app (Yamaha Grand Lite 1.1, Chateau Grand Lite 1.0, Abbey Steinway D 1.9, Steinway Grand 1.0). Play a MIDI file, open Settings tab, find them at bottom of SoundFont menu. (You can also drag-and-drop SF2 files.)

spintin 2y ago

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reneberlin 2y ago

SBAWE32 + YAMAHA XG-50 was the burner at that time for me.

signaru 2y ago

For those who want to broaden their options and are not really constrained to only using SF2, the SFZ format has a similar purpose and there are many free instruments as they are easy to create (a text markup referring to the, typically WAV, audio files as is). Plogue sforzando [0] (freeware) is my favorite plugin for SFZ files. I learned about SFZ via an orchestra set called the Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra [1,2]. [0] https://www.plogue.com/products/sforzando.html https://www.plogue.com/products/sforzando.html [1] https://sso.mattiaswestlund.net/ https://sso.mattiaswestlund.net/ [2] https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/81?class=related-link https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/81?class=related-lin...

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catapart 2y ago

Sweet! I built a little plug-and-play digital MIDI controller and published it with the Salamander Grand Piano samples, so I could use any smart phone to have MIDI playback. I had always planned on grabbing more samples but I did everything from "scratch" (webaudio, but no audio lib), so I was just taking shots in the dark about what downsampling I could do while retaining quality (you can see, on the website, I missed the mark; the samples are degraded: [0]). Hopefully, I can use these free sound fonts - at the very least - as a basis for sound sample quality. But it looks like I could probably just add sf2 and sfz support to my controller, which would open up all of these instruments for me. That's a pretty exciting goal! Thanks for sharing! [0] https://www.midi-speaker.com https://www.midi-speaker.com