Best GM Soundfont Bank in current year?

[SiliconDeath]

So after recently purchasing ChordPulse, it's come to my attention that I need to upgrade my soundfont.

I managed to download/install Mysung, SGM and Timbres of Heaven with CoolSoft. Are these the best, or are there some newer ones that are even better? They're good, but they're not without fault. A compilation that combines the strengths of each of them would probably bring best results than each of them individually.

I'm looking for a soundfont that can overcome these "faults", and sounds realistic. If it can manage these, it doesn't have to be free, I'm willing to pay for soundfont if it's good

[jaydog4]

have you heard of Samplers : Kontakt ?

[audiojunkie]

Everyone has different opinions.

I personally wouldn't touch Kontakt with a ten foot pole:

* Encrypted sample Format
* Challenge/Response Copy Protection
* Only after 10+ years have they FINALLY gotten HiDPI support, and still the majority of the libraries still don't support it. Native Instruments haven't been properly supporting their software.
* etc. etc

There is much more here, but the ones I mentioned are the ones that bother me most:

viewtopic.php?t=592030

Now, if someone wants a nice sampler that is well supported, works great, and is future-proof, look at TAL-Sampler. It is one of the best "creative-style" samplers available.

[audiojunkie]

So after recently purchasing ChordPulse, it's come to my attention that I need to upgrade my soundfont.

I managed to download/install Mysung, SGM and Timbres of Heaven with CoolSoft. Are these the best, or are there some newer ones that are even better? They're good, but they're not without fault. A compilation that combines the strengths of each of them would probably bring best results than each of them individually.

I'm looking for a soundfont that can overcome these "faults", and sounds realistic. If it can manage these, it doesn't have to be free, I'm willing to pay for soundfont if it's good

"The best" is very subjective, and depends on what you like and value in an instrument and its sound. I don't use GM banks as much as I used to anymore, but there are a lot of them out there. I wrote a very large, very recent list of available SF2 and SFZ files available on the internet. What I would recommend, would be to use that list and download and try a bunch of them, and then use the ones you like.

Edit: Here's the link--

viewtopic.php?t=597968

[Benedict]

There is a massive hole in the DAWsphere for a good quality Generic MIDI style ROMpler soundset.
Where there are tons of synth/samplers with large lieberries, few are organized in a way that immediately makes them useful for those times you just need sounds to attach to MIDI or make a mockup/demo.

One of the only ones I have that does anything immediately close is Purity


The matter of "quality" is emotive and Purity is a bit flat, a lot of that is about Composition (managing MIDI) and Mixing. I have used Purity in a few album tracks with care - or outright joy for the sound of it.

Roland do have something that makes this claim for a box that covers basics but in trying to work out how to get it, it gets bogged down in the Roland Cloud thing pretty fast.