Realistic piano soundfont suggestions
The Piano 3D app for the iPhone and iPad has the most realistic sounding piano sounds in the computer industry. If the app can do it, so could musescore.
Anyone knows the exact piano soundfont this app is using?
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This app is 350MB and only play piano. MuseScore is 50MB and play the full orchestra. Do the maths.
You can change the soundfont in MuseScore and you can use something like the salamander SFZ http://freepats.zenvoid.org/Piano/acoustic-grand-piano.html, 1.8GB. It will sound better than the stock MuseScore options.
In reply to This app is 350MB and only by [DELETED] 5
I couldn't get the soundfont to run. It runs the Fluid soundfonts instead. Deleteing the Fluid soundfonts produce no sound.
In reply to I couldn't get the soundfont by yuliang99
Did you select the Zerberus sound in the mixer?
You will find it right at the end of the list.
PS Don't believe the Apple hype!
1. You cannot get an accurate representation of a grand piano sound on the cheap earbuds usually used with iphones/ipads.
2. You also cannot get an accurate representation of a grand piano with 350MB of samples.
In reply to Did you select the Zerberus by ChurchOrganist
Mixer or synthesizer?
As you can see, I deleted all the soundfonts in the "Fluid" tab, and after that, playing the score produce no sound.
Update: Only the SalamanderGrandPianoV3Retuned works, SalamanderGrandPianoV3 just mute.
Maybe I shouldn't put it in the root of the Soundfont folder?
PS: don't worry, what matters now is to trying to make the sfz soundfonts to work on my pc.
This app almost certainly doesn't use a soundfont. It uses it's own samples (that are likely in some proprietary format that most programs can't read). Like lasconic said, Salamander Grand is a excellent piano soundfont that is compatible with MuseScore.
In reply to This app almost certainly by [DELETED] 597046
Oh... ok
I have just visited the website, and read the information on Copyright, and free usage of soundfonts etc. I am thinking to myself 'what is actually free to use?' It is a mindfield.
In reply to I have just visited the by stupot101
'what is actually free to use?'
When it comes down to it very little is actually freely licensed to the point of being compatible with MuseScore's MIT licence.
In reply to 'what is actually free to by ChurchOrganist
/thanks. How does this apply to using soundfonts within DAW's?
In reply to /thanks. How does this apply by stupot101
It doesn't - it applies to using soundfonts within MuseScore which is the software this forum is for.
For MuseScore to be able to distribute a soundfont it has to be compatible with the MIT licence it is distributed under.
Also, it does occur to me that MuseScore is targeted at being “a fantastic scoring program” that oh-by-the-way happens to also produce very fine playbacks. Whereas “the app with which you compare it” is apparently designed to be “a performance instrument.”
This is, then, a fairly un-equal comparison, methinks. You seem to be comparing one piece of software, whose stated focus is X, with another piece of software whose raison d'entre is Y.
To me, “a single piece of software cannot possibly satisfy everyone, and its designers should not try.” Apple’s Logic Pro X has a very acceptable “Score View” feature ... but, “it isn’t MuseScore.” And, I think, vice-versa. If you try to satisfy everyone, you satisfy no one, and you also lose focus. To me, if you want to provide a really good answer to, “What is your piece of software, exactly?”, you must, above all, be prepared to say in-detail what it is not. Your “scope” absolutely must have “bounds.”
To me, as long as MuseScore can give you “a very good approximation of what your score might sound like, when played on a piano,” it has fulfilled its essential service to the composer that is its intended primary audience. “The Scope stops here.” All the rest is gravy. (And it sure is delicious gravy!)
I happen to think that the designers have done a marvelous(!) job of presenting a very-realistic interpretation of dynamics ... trills, crescendos, hairpins ... As I said, “very delicious gravy!” Your very-hard efforts certainly show.
Salamander Piano is not that good. The one provided with Musescore is way much better the Grand Piano. If you are looking for more realistic sound, you guys are deaf. Even though my name is deaf, like Beethoven became one. :-)