The choir sounds are tolerable, they can work, the piano sound couldn't top HQ orchestral.
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Now that I have windows 10, one is a bit too soft. When I had windows 7, I kept them at one. (Yes I keep my headphones in settings less than 3. Its dynamics are well defined, I'm talking to the point that you will need to lower the default volume even if your headphones are on 1 setting. Timbres of heaven's sounds were a little less that General user or HQ orchestral for some of the instruments, but it had the all instruments in it. Florestan Basic was not exactly good, some sounds were irritating me. HQ orchestral also has the best choir sounds. HQ orchestral soundfont has really accurate sounds as well, but it lacks other instruments as well. General User has the best orchestra sounds, however it is lacking some instruments and its choir sounds are terrible. I have had to turn the volume down pretty low since it knows the definition of forte. Okay, after trying a few, I would say I think Timbres of heaven is the best overall, however, it does have its drawbacks. To set a soundfont (or multiple soundfonts) to default go to view -> synthesizer make sure all files are loaded in the order you want. That's what I have, but you may not like them, there is no "magic bullet" so to speak for this issue. If you want accurate sounding electric Guitars, check out FlameStudio:Īlso, for guitars, basses (including an acoustic upright), there's Karoryfer, which uses SFZ, thus only limited support in MuseScore: If you like early music, check out Sonae Musicae, they have excellent harpsichords, a carillon and a small organ : If you want an accurate pipe organ Jeux de Orgues is impossible to beat, but is complicated to use with MuseScore: So is Piano in 162, but you need to edit the file to get it to work with MuseScore:Īnthony Deaton has some good pianos and percussion: Sonatina is a good orchestral soundfont, it is almost strictly classical (and maybe a bit of jazz):Īlso look at Squidfont, it's older, but it has some good patches:įor Piano, the Salamander grand is very good:
There are many specialty and individual soundfonts. If you want to get out of the GM specification, that is a whole other issue. I know some people really like Timbres of Heaven: However, just because it's the biggest does not mean it's the best. So here's what I have to say: that is entirely based on what you want.ĭo you want a good GM bank here's one, it's nearly a GB: