SoundFont Pro review – multi-timbral virtual instrument from Azfar Jafri. Music App Blog - reviews, resources and news for the iOS musician. Multi-timbral virtual instrument from Azfar Jafri. SoundFont Pro review – multi-timbral virtual instrument from Azfar Jafri. These are perhaps best described as serviceable rather.

I'm using the bs-16i for a Rhodes instrument I built by porting my favourite Kontakt instrument to sf2. I cut down the 20 velocity layers to 10 layers over every 3rd note to get it down to about 500MB. The bs-16i has no problems with this. The new update last week makes the reverb now usable (was very noisy). Overall plays well and much much better than Soundfont Pro, which doesn't recognise the velocity layers. I'm currently working on a project to port the excellent SFZero open-source project to an iPad AudioUnits v3, as the one thing I miss in bs-16i is disk streaming.

With SFZero I'd be able to run the Rhodes soundfont in all it's 20-layer 73-key glory. I have disk streaming implemented in an OSX AUv3, so hopefully will have something working on the Ipad within the next couple of weeks. #2890579 - 11/16/17 07:47 AM Re: Anyone using Bismark BS-16i for iPad [] KC Ambassador of Goodwill 10k Club Registered: 11/12/03 Posts: 12807 Loc: Toronto, ON.

My personal favorite is iGrand, hands down. Within iGrand, my favorite pianos are the Rich Upright and the Soft Upright. Apart from iGrand, SampleTank has a piano that I really love - Old Upright Piano.

I love playing piano and it is very important to me to have a realistic piano sound. The percussive nature of the piano is very often lost in many piano samples - I love hearing the 'clink' of the hammer hitting the strings, especially on the higher notes. Other important factors are note decay and resonance. The pianos in iGrand (especially the uprights) and Old Upright Piano in ST do a great job in each of those categories. I have Module, and the piano sounds are good, but I've run into issues with polyphony (the number of notes that can be played simultaneously without loss). I've never had that issue with iGrand.

(I have an Air 2, 128GB running iOS 8.3) I actually recently released an album of piano music and I used the Soft Upright in iGrand. Said: Right now I'm leaning more towards the IK iGrand and electric but when I try to buy the bundle it wants to charge me for three apps when I already own Sampletank. I saw Dougs videos and they've helped me. Why don't you download the free version of igrand, check if the sound quality is good enough for your purposes and then decide? It's always hard to tell from videos how the instrument will play, especially with your own midi keyboard. For example igrand pianos have very distinct velocity layers which give them both character and potential problems on some keyboards.