One Small Clue has released Grace : Sampler for free. There are both 32 and 64 bit versions for Windows. One of its features is that it can easily import and convert SFZ format instruments.
Rounding up all the Pianos, Electric Pianos and Organs in one post. A work in progress.
The Grand Pianos
The
City Piano is a fully sampled Baldwin Baby Grand with 4 velocity layers
and release samples. It is free and public domain. Do anything you like
with it.
Kurt James Werner sampled a prepared piano on the CCRMA stage at
Stanford. Licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. The piano may be used for
commercial use as long as credit is given.
The Not Quite Right Piano is good for silent film accompaniment if those
films involve pratfalls and pie in the face. Public Domain. Not Quite Right Piano - Kontakt 5
Jobro Quick Piano for Kontakt Jobro
at Freesound.org sampled a good chuck of a piano using the hit it hard
and release quick method of playing. It's missing the top two octaves,
but you get about 6 octaves in staccato style in under 3 megs.
Creative Commons: Credit Jobro
Grandmither's Piano for Kontakt
Techsetsu
sampled Grandmother's piano with some interesting results saying, "I
didn't cut my nails the day I recorded these at my grandmother's house,
so you can hear my nails scratch against it in most if not all notes. It
is out of tune, which adds a haunted, dead feel to it."
Creative Commons: Credit Techsetsu
Electric Pianos
Thanks to the sampling of Greg Sullivan we have a number of great sounding electric pianos. Please credit Greg. A number have Script and
Shell by Mickaël Ménager.
Bonus from Sarcyan's Musyng Kite soundfont. The Street Bumper Piano - Kontakt 5
Musyng Kite Merlittzer Win 64Win 32Mac VSTMac AU
(K5 and VST are the same instrument, different names, long story!)
Please credit Sarcyan.
The Street Bumper Electric Piano from Script and
Shell by Mickaël Ménager.
Note
that when you start the organ there will be NO sound. You need to push
the stops to choose sounds. The two
bottom stops are for the green keys, these simulate the pedals. The
stops on the left side are for the light blue keys and the stops on the
right for the dark blue keys. You can use more than on stop at a time to
create a layered sound.
Samples by Lars Palo of Lars Virtual Pipe Organs http://www.familjenpalo.se/vpo under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license.
Nick Appleton sampled the organ of St. Augustine's Anglican Church, Neutral Bay. I've turned it into an instrument for Kontakt 5.
The license is St. Augustine's Neutral Bay, Hauptwerk Sample Set, (c) 2009 - Nicholas Appleton, http://www.appletonit.com.au/nickspage/
You can download the full license (also included in the instrument) here
but the important bits are the organ can be used to perform works
commercially and I can create Derivative Works and redistribute them non
commercially.
Bureu Organ - Kontakt 5
There
are two buttons / lights under the organ stops. The left one turns that stop on
while the right one unloads that stop from memory, so if you are running
low on memory you can easily unload samples you aren't using.
Scripting Adviser was Matt McKay.
Goldenhelix was kind enough to fix some looping issues on some of the stops. You can drop his new nki file into your base directory for the organ for the fix. Updated Bureu Organ nki
Prudhoe Organ
Here's a little organ for you from the Prudhoe Methodist Church sampled by Mark Beverley. He says the samples are free. Thank you Mark. Soundcloud Demo
Prudhoe Organ - Kontakt 5
The Pedal is Bourdon 16' and is always on from C-1 to a bit past C1.
The
Great Stops are too the left and the Swell Pipes are too the right. You
have to turn at least one stop on to get any sound from C2 and up.
