Best Way To Have Accoustic Piano Inside Renoise/Linux

General Discussion
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Hi

What’s the best way to have a good, accoustic piano plugin inside renoise under linux? If it’s a matter of loading external files (giga, sf, etc), I’d like to start with something free, but it the result is good I could throw some money at it.

NB: I had the idea that linuxsampler was the way to go, but I can’t get it to show up in renoise and this (oldish) post suggests that it’s not (or at least wasn’t) possible.

NB2: I’d really prefer something that loads inside renoise, so pianoteq is not an option.

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I actually find the mda piano to be quite usable. The quality is okay and with a bit of effects it can sound quite nice.
Other then that, you might want to try Disco DSP Halflife to load your samples.

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Assuming it will work under Linux somehow (I know there are ways of using Win VSTs in it, but I have no experience doing so myself)…

4Front TruePianos.

Great sound, low footprint.

The hybrid of sampling and synthesis really hits a good balance of realism vs. playability. Can’t praise it enough.

If that won’t work, here’s a good roundup of free piano sample libraries, most in .giga or Soundfont format.

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Linuxsampler with some discounted gig pianos should offer very good quality at low price. For plugins there is Pianoteq which have a native Linux (both 32 and 64 bit) version too.

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Pianoteq has a native Linux version (which was actually released because Renoise was released under Linux, the author told me). It is not a VST plugin, but you can easily use it through MIDI.
Pianoteq is the piano I use for my piano compositions (like the one currently in my signature)

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i’ve been successfully using linuxsampler with renoise by using LS16 dssi → ls16 download | SourceForge.net

it’s fairly basic and lacks a lot of features, but it works here