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Bonteburg · Post by **Bonteburg** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:20 pm

Hey all,

Now that I'm on DSL I can finally download some of the bigger chunks and one of the things I'm still missing is a decent piano library - preferably in exs or sf2 fromat but any other format will do, as long as they provide the raw wavs/aiffs so I can rebuild it.
I'm after free/low cost libraries btw.

Thanks,

Marco

morelia · Post by **morelia** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:33 pm

http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html

morelia · Post by **morelia** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:34 pm

Not necessarily the best but worth a look I think.

http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html

dickiefunk · Post by **dickiefunk** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:41 pm

Sampletekk pianos are awesome! They're not free but they are about the cheapest for serious pro sounds! They easily compare with Ivory and Akoustik Piano!

www.sampletekk.com

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:31 pm

+1 for Sampletekk pianos. Fantastic stuff.

Brent

Lord Snarebottom · Post by **Lord Snarebottom** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:58 pm

I made a very nice piano from the UofIowa samples, many of which had minor problems, such as pops and/or clicks. Only 3 velocity levels, but nice still.

Rock · Post by **Rock** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:08 pm

I'm interested too...

Bonteburg · Post by **Bonteburg** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:22 pm

hm, thanks everybody!

The Iowa Uni samples look nice if a bit of a day job downloading it all.
How could I forget them, I had seen them before in my dial up days. They sound really good!

Marco

mr · Post by mr » Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:58 pm

Free Sampletank has an HQ piano.

Compyfox · Post by **Compyfox** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:22 am

My page has a torrent section with free pianos I collected over the years.

Among them the (now rare) Maestro Malmsjö, Clavinova V2.0, NS_Piano, Sjören Bovberg Pianos, the Splendid Grand, Warren Tracht Steinway and as bonus 2 Harpsichords.

The pack is 250MB big, extracted it's around 640MB.

raweber · Post by **raweber** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:33 am

An acoustic piano is not currently in Sampletanks free lineup - a couple of eletric pianos, but no acoustic. I believe they rotate the free samples from time to time.

Most people will tell you that you need different piano samples for different applications. My favorite piano for bright, punchy, cut-through-the-mix is:

http://www.sf2midi.com/index.php?page=sdet&id=5883

Sorry that I can't find the original site - I found it again recently, but Google is failing me now.

For a darker, mellow grand, I like:

http://www.hum.aau.dk/~bovbjerg/piano4.html

which is a nice Steinway sample (big, though - 30 meg)

Rob in Peoria
www.allthingsnewministries.org

androidlove · Post by **androidlove** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:34 am

raweber wrote:An acoustic piano is not currently in Sampletanks free lineup - a couple of eletric pianos, but no acoustic. I believe they rotate the free samples from time to time.

8) HQ Free Piano - Piano (12.8 MB) - IK

http://www.sampletank.com/Main.html?STFreeDwn

i've never seen them rotate samples even though the site says they will

Lagrange · Post by **Lagrange** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:44 am

morelia wrote:http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html

Wow pretty nice set of scaled instruments..

Heres some free SF2's http://www.sf2midi.com/index.php?page=sdet&id=6496

Slow ass server tho but hey it's free right??!!?

L

Pantsdown666 · Post by **Pantsdown666** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:10 am

Compyfox wrote:My page has a torrent section with free pianos I collected over the years.

Among them the (now rare) Maestro Malmsjö, Clavinova V2.0, NS_Piano, Sjören Bovberg Pianos, the Splendid Grand, Warren Tracht Steinway and as bonus 2 Harpsichords.

The pack is 250MB big, extracted it's around 640MB.

thanks for that, great collection

raweber · Post by **raweber** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:36 pm

mr wrote:Free Sampletank has an HQ piano.

Doh! My bad. I remember now that I didn't downlaod is because I already have too many stinkin piano samples. But, if it comes highly recommended, what's a few more meg on the hard drive?

Rob in Peoria
www.allthingsnewministries.org

Best free piano?