With KONTAKT, you can sound like a snare drum, a symphony orchestra, or anything in between, from a universe of sampled instruments. It’s a simple sampler when you want it to be, and a deep sonic scripting laboratory when you need something more.

DSK SF2 is described as 'SoundFont player VST instrument' and is an app. There are five alternatives to DSK SF2 for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and iPad. The best DSK SF2 alternative is Kontakt. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Decent Sampler or Labs. Other great apps like DSK SF2 are Bassmidi VSTi and sforzando.
With KONTAKT, you can sound like a snare drum, a symphony orchestra, or anything in between, from a universe of sampled instruments. It’s a simple sampler when you want it to be, and a deep sonic scripting laboratory when you need something more.

The Decent Samples plugin is a FREE sample player plugin that allows you to play sample libraries in the DecentSampler format (files with extensions: dspreset and dslibrary).




Labs is an application that you can use to let a midi keyboard play like a real piano, it got multiple Piano Styles.

Bassmidi VSTi is a portable VST 2.4 instrument/software MIDI synthesizer for Windows that is based on the Bass/BassMidi libraries by Un4Seen. You need some SF2/SFZ soundfont(s) and a VST Host/DAW to use it.

sforzando is a highly SFZ 2.0 compliant sample player. Advanced sample hobbyists now have a powerful tool to experiment and share instruments without relying on proprietary formats. sforzando only has one instrument slot; no fancy UI, effects or mixers.
