What are your favourite sound fonts, paid or free?
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MWM
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the free of charge musescore 3 sf3
an assortment of nice quality instrument sounds (comparing to the Xbits era)
realistic piano
38MB miraculously
plus musescore 3 runs on cheap builds of machines (yes raspberry too) and various OSs including Linux
In reply to the free of charge musescore… by msfp
Are there any instructions for running on a RPi4?
In reply to Are there any instructions… by yonah_ag
I've no idea how except I recall someone done that on maybe youtube
In reply to Are there any instructions… by yonah_ag
I did, in terminal just do the 'sudo apt install musescore3' or
Guitars-Universal-V1.5 from https://sites.google.com/site/soundfonts4u/
Gibson Les Paul Guitar from https://www.hedsound.com/2019/07/flamestudios-guitar-soundfonts-in-sf2…
(Both are free)
In reply to Guitars-Universal-V1.5 from… by yonah_ag
gibson one is nice
also is the bass pizz on soundfonts4u
Paid are really good, but if you search a lot you can find free soundfont that are out of mind. So 50/50, but maybe some free are better than the others.
In reply to Paid are really good, but if… by Tanica D'Olio …
Which paid ones are really good? Looks like I'll be on MS3 for a while yet so a good SF2 at reasonable cost may be a worthwhile investment. (I am particularly interested in nylon string guitars).
In reply to Which paid ones are really… by yonah_ag
MS3 sorry but is really bad, instead there are a lot better than that out there. Paid i'm talking about Erania's piano soundfonts, those are amazing.
In reply to MS3 sorry but is really bad,… by Tanica D'Olio …
Especially his Bechstein D282,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q01NEI0wxE (30 dollars).
Free collections:
Good old Timbres of Heaven: https://midkar.com/soundfonts/
https://rkhive.com/
https://freepats.zenvoid.org/Piano/acoustic-grand-piano.html
I wanted more synth sounds, so I purchased Vintage Keys and Vintage Pro soundfonts from Digital Sound Factory. I'm happy with Vintage Pro, you get a lot of sounds and there are several that I plan on using.