Yamaha C5 Grand Now available for free download

• Apr 2, 2017 - 04:26

Having spent a considerable amount of time on "perfecting" the Salamander Grand for sf2 format it has now reached the stage where I think you will be happy with the result.
Alexander Holm did a marvelous job at sampling and packaging this free piano. I have now finished editing all of the samples (removed blanks at the front for low latency, normalized the samples, re-attenuated) and added various presets.
The finished result is 592mb in size (924 samples) and has 15 velocity layers with optional resonance.
You can listen to YouTube samples by Anifuse in Japan (who plays a lot, lot better than myself) here:
https://youtu.be/C_R6jvDXbEM
You can download the Yamaha C5 direct from here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3zFERJ2rMQpNERvOEFYZVdjYVU/view?usp=s…
or if you go to my site
https://sites.google.com/site/soundfonts4u/
you can download it from 4) of the Piano section.
Hoping you enjoy.
John

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• Apr 14, 2017 - 21:03

I've done a few listens and I agree, amazing sound, great work! It has a gorgeous, full sound, without the excessive brightness that many piano SFs have.
I have a couple of questions-
After loading the new soundfont in the synthesizer, and then opening the mixer to select it for the piano sound, there are a number of new listings that appear, and are obviously associated with your new soundfont.
The upper-most one is "Yamaha C5 Grand", followed by "Bright Grand", followed by "Very Bright Grand", followed by "Yam C5 NoRes", and quite a few others.
>Should I assume that the top one "Yamaha C5 Grand" is your final/optimal selection?
>What is the purpose of the others? Some sound identical to "Yamaha C5 Grand" (or nearly so), others are obviously different.

Thanks again, great work,

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• Apr 14, 2017 - 22:24

I'm glad you like it.
Yes the Yamaha C5 Grand is the main preset. There are a couple of settings with a brighter sound which work well in a busy mix or for playing live in a band. The main sounds include natural resonance effects for greater realism (harmonic sympathetic string resonance) but this comes at a cost to polyphony because every note takes up 4 (2 for stereo sound plus 2 for stereo resonance). This is why I have included presets without resonance. With many SoundFont players it also gives you the option to add the level of resonance you prefer by loading both the non-resonance piano plus resonance on the same channel and mixing the two.
All the different presets do not add to the overall size of the SoundFont because they all access the same sample set.

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