Hey I'm back with less explosive VSTs. Maize fixed up my issues and here are lots o instruments that don't require Kontakt and shouldn't shatter your speakers. Plus a friend made nice GUIs, so they look less crummy too. OK so we ain't 8dio, but we cost less too. The entire Sonatina orchestra and pianos and stuff.
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2014/09/bigcat-maize-vstis.html

Made a little Demo after drinking a 5th (hic)
http://soundcloud.com/bigcat1969/the-5th-sonatina

Any feedback, problems, exploding headphones, etc...?

 

This is awesome, thanks

 

thanks bigcat. keep up the good work...

 

THANK YOU!!!!

 

The Sonatina instruments are great - however, the link to the AU of the Cellos yields a download of the VST, not the AU.

 

Thanks so much for catching that! It should be fixed now.

 

Graie mille! Tutto va bene.

 

Thanks Bigcat for everything you do!

 

Thanks for the great job.

Whisper Piano Win32 is missing, link is for the 64 version.

 

Thanks that should be fixed now.

 

dude thanks heaps!

I'm currently using EZkeys which is good but justr doesn't quite sound right.
Really keen to give the city piano a go.

thanks again. awesome

Edit: I'm after a decent timpani vst.
any suggestions?

 

Ironically I have a timpani from the Sonatina Orchestra and forgot to upload it. And now it is up.
I'm not sure how good it sounds. The timpani is an odd instrument. This has more the single hits on the low end of your keyboard and the rolls on the higher end, so you might want to experiment.

You might also try the SFZ version of the free Ivy Steinway. It is huge, but sounds amazing for free.
http://www.ivyaudio.com/Piano-in-162

If you don't have an SFZ player give this one a go...
http://www.plogue.com/products/sforzando/

If it helps I made a little list of freebies that don't require kontakt here...
http://bigcatlists.blogspot.com/2014/05/totally-free-instrument-by-type.html

 

you're a legend. Thanks heaps