Where to buy high quality soundfonts??

These guys are pretty good. I have their 24M GM replacement - major improvement over what comes with the SB cards.

http://www.sonicimplants.com/

I have to second Sonic Implants. I bought some of their brass, woodwinds, strings to hold and satisfy me on the short term till I can afford and decide on one of the first class orchrestra type sample cds and they're really not all that bad.

I grabbed a hofner bass set for $11.95 that is one of the best sampled basses I've ever heard or used.

Of all the soundfonts I've tried (and I've searched the web quite a bit) I like Sonic Implants the best. All of the free ones I've found on the web lack a "roundness" to them. They sound muddled and "flat" in comparison. I've even purchased some on Ebay that I never ended up using.

Note to SB Audugy2 soundcard users: Never buy the Sonic Implants GM Wavetable soundfonts. Your card already has a very good GM bank. I A/B'd the two after recently purchasing the SI bank for $80 and couldn't hear a quality difference. (Hey, something good to say about our card!)

I got the Sonic Implants "Silk Road" (Asian/Indian instruments combo-pack) and Atsia (African Talking Drums), although in Kontakt format.

My experience has been mixed. As far as sound quality and production quality of the samples, I would say they are excellent. I'm no pro, but I've heard bad soundfonts and sampler banks, and these don't sound like that. They have that "roundness" (fullness?) that BOPPER referred to. However, they wouldn't load into the initial version of Kontakt that I had (1.21 maybe?) and didn't work until I upgraded to 1.5. SI didn't know there was a version conflict and I had to find this out on my own. Secondly, I've noticed at least one place where the sample looping is just bad... very noticeable click.

So, overall I'd rate my experience with SI as a flat "good". I've heard others say good to great things about their sample libraries and the company, so I'd recommend you at least give them a shot.

ORIGINAL: jhonvargas

Thanks all. I have tried some Sonic Implants soundfonts before and did not like them very much. First, I have used some free soundfonts from SI and they are terrible; then I bougth a downloadable version of "Symphonic Strings" and do not find them very useful, even I saw (in VSampler) that they are 22050 Khz/16 bits samples and this can somehow explain why they do not sound very good. So I am afraid that all SI products are similar and then my money will be totally wasted. So, guys, do you really recommend Sonic Implants as a good sample manufacturer??? Probably I got what I paid for (free or cheap). Thanks...

I bought and dl'ed the Strings from the Orchrestral Implants, they're made from a subset of the bigger Symphyonic Strings. They're all 44k samples. Probably would be nicer having the $449 full version but I can't swing something like that right now so these are very useful for now. I did see where those who purchased an earlier version of this set can upgrade and that the earlier version wasn't made from a sample set of the full blown Symphonic Strings. Perhaps that's what you initially got. 22k samples of strings probably don't cut it.