KVR Audio

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 10:16 pm

soundcreations wrote: Just thought I would let you know I have upladed the 256mb version of Splendid Grand to our website.

It is compressed using SFARK available for both Mac (OSX) and PC users. You can download the latest version here: http://www.melodymachine.com/

The archive is a single 75 or so mb download. Use SFark to unpack it.

http://www.soundcreationsinc.com/splendid/256.sfark

Due to some bandwidth restrictions I will only be able to keep this on the server for a limited amount of time.
Enjoy,

Thanks

Patrice Brousseau · Post by **Patrice Brousseau** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:19 pm

Thanks a lot. The 136mb version is already in my opinion the best free piano available. Surely, I'll use the 256mb version a lot!

Patrice Brousseau

koorby · Post by **koorby** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:26 pm

Many thanks to everyone for the replies to my original post - it seems that Splendid 72/128/256 really is the best one out there - I have tried all the others and they all are no match for Splendid IMHO. Even with the distortion in the upper octaves, it's sonically superior to even very expensive commercial grands.

Thanks Simon so much for uploading the 256MB version - with the rgc:audio sfz VSTi and using direct-from-disk (DFD) mode, it's probably the perfect freeware grand piano solution out there.

When I bought my Tascam US-122, it came bundled with Gigastudio 24 (which has MegaPiano bundled). I have not checked it out yet, but I will convert it to an SF2 using VSampler 3.04 and compare it side by side against Splendid256.

Thanks again for the feedback everyone

PeterL · Post by **PeterL** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 11:20 am

soundcreations wrote:Due to some bandwidth restrictions I will only be able to keep this on the server for a limited amount of time.

Please keep it on the server for just one night.
It's a big download. Thanks very much !

PugFace · Post by **PugFace** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:19 pm

Thanks a lot for the 256 Sample. PeterL you gotta get Broadband to survive. The Software is getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger until it's pretty big. The broadband download was 117 Kbyte/sec and that aint the fastest i have seen. I was thinking about seeing if there were any new Piano's out there myself. I see Freeserve now offering Broadband at £14.99 a month which is pretty reasonable (for the UK) for the amount of hours i now spend on it. (that really sounds geeky and it most shamefully is). Mind you i see an awful lot of familar fellow geeks on this site. But nice Geeks of course. Or at least Artistic Geeky. Woooooo In the time it took to write this message i got the download.

Reverend Rhythm · Post by **Reverend Rhythm** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:34 pm

Is the 256 mb piano still there? I couldn't find it.

network.funky · Post by **network.funky** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:01 pm

I couldn't disagree more - it put me off from buying Sampletank at a time when I was considering it.

Yep me too. I was about to part with my hard earned cash, tried out the Free piano on Sampletank Free and thought it was awful.

I even made a track with it to see if it would sit in a mix and a mate of mine thought it was a GM sound from my PC.

macha · Post by **macha** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 4:04 pm

hey guys

i downloaded the piano. any of you can tell me how to import it in a
sampler. i have exs and kopntakt.i it with tried battery( options sf.... target folder) does not work. Or is there a soundfont player that i can use on osx panther/logic?

please help......... i am curious about this piano!

thanks

Reverend Rhythm · Post by **Reverend Rhythm** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 4:55 pm

sfz

http://www.kvr-vst.com/get/769.html

macha · Post by **macha** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 5:00 pm

thanks for the tip.....but i am an osx user.......sigh
is there a sounfontplayer for osx out there.....?

Consumer Whore · Post by **Consumer Whore** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 5:07 pm

I'm no piano expert neither

but I got a sweet-sounding soundfont called 'Pianissium' from Hammersound.net

Worth a look?

snooky · Post by **snooky** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 5:16 pm

Don´t wanna hijack the thread, but is there some
SF2 string library that´s good

PeterL · Post by **PeterL** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 5:20 pm

Mindless wrote:Don´t wanna hijack the thread, but is there some
SF2 string library that´s good

Look here (it's more than you can eat).
Scroll down to soundfonts:
http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic. ... =soundfont

pschelfh · Post by **pschelfh** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:01 pm

Does anybody know about the quality of this one :
University of Iowa
Seems like a huge download, every note is sampled seperately with a natural decay!

Peter.

scuzzphut · Post by **scuzzphut** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:15 am

now that the sfz format is available, you could download all those Iowa Uni samples and knock together a soundfont in a text editor in 2 minutes.

so who is going to do it?

The best (Free) Acoustic Piano sample?