There not many really stable and usable samplers around unless on have a couple of hundreds of spare cash to pay. Since release of SFZ player there was nothing on the market. SF play is not bad, but it has issue with filtering. Well it has no filtering at all. Nowever, there is a solution for you...
It could take a long time to find perfect SoundFont Player. We have one for you! Let's see what it could do! The requirements were simple:
- work as polyphonic VST plugin
- playback stereo Soundfonts
- be easy on CPU
- be able to handle big Soundfonts
- have amp envelope with ADSR filter
The new Authentic Expression Technology (AET) sets the new milestone in reproduction of sampled sounds. It allows acuratly reproduce dynamics and articulations without well know "jumps" in sound between different veloity layers.
Kontakt Player is a FREE, the most fully featured sample player. It has the same engine as famous Native Instruments Kontakt 4 and hence supports all it's native formats. Kontakt Player also provides reasonable control over the sound.
SFZ is a FREE, very simple and effective SF2 and SFZ files player. It has very minimalistic user interface, but full featured high quality sound engine with: