Piano samples - pianobook.co.uk

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Hi there.

I just found a lot of sampled pianos in soundfont format!

https://www.pianobook.co.uk/pianobook-library

Has anyone tried them out?

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Actually most of them are kontakt but some of them have been ported to SFZ

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Please, if you find some good SFZ there, share the link :wink:

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I had a go with the 9000ft piano on my laptop but I couldn’t get it working with LinuxSampler or sfizz.

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Listen to this.

This is Spring Piano sfz

Clicking and the velocity is weird.

Could it be that it is written for Sforzando?

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Yes, that’s what sfz stands for. :slight_smile:

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Haha. Yes I know that.

What I meant is; is there some compatability issue with using desktop and headless.

When reading about sfz it looks like it should work in any sfz player.

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In the desktop program there are ADSR knobs. In Zynthian/linuxsampler there are none.

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http://scoringcentral.mattiaswestlund.net/showthread.php?pid=5061

This sheds some light.

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ĂŤ see now what is the problem. Or what I think is the problem.

These sfz files have properties that can and need to be configured. See photo.

We currently don’t see this in Linux sampler.

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Mason & Hamlin - A works nicely with LS. Especially paired with DragonFly Room Reverb.

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It’s not piano, but I recently downloaded Weresax from Karyofer…
It’s an .sfz file, but it comes with all the samples… and I selected one for each note and imported them into my Waldorf Blofeld… added envelope settings on filter ans amplituden and delayed LFO on pitch for vibrato…
Stream ThP - Le Vent y Mettra de l'Ordre - Karyofer Weresax Test - 20-08-15 by opus.quatre | Listen online for free on SoundCloud?
Stream ThP - Karyofer Weresax Improvisation - Waldorf Blofeld 20-08-25 by opus.quatre | Listen online for free on SoundCloud
I don’t know if the same thing is possible with LS… maybe not…
Sfz seems to be a standard, though, and I was believing that there were a Linux sfz player which could be implemented on Zynthian…

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linuxsampler plays sfz. Although not all opcodes are supported.

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What are “opcodes” ? You mean, those extra controls like envelope or vibrato ?

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You can see what is and isn’t supported here:

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Thanks @Baggypants…
Many of the unsupported features concern aftertouch… in case of a piano soundfont, I’m 100.01% sure they should not be a problem…

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There are a heap of sfz mappings for pinatabook here

I’ve tried Sol’s Piano and it seems to work without any messing.

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