I followed David Healy's work with the
#hise #sampler for some times but entirely missed the release of his Rhapsody virtual
#instrument #audioplugin.
Rhapsody is a sampler meant to play Librewave's sample librarires. A few of which I added to this post.
#Linuxaudio was in need of an alternative to Kontakt. The
#sfz format is already quite good but isn't scriptable, so limited.
Rhapsody is
#freesoftware and can be loaded in any DAW supporting the vst3 format. It can also be used as a standalone.
https://librewave.com/rhapsody/
https://librewave.com
I know there are some soundfonts/sfz around that are compatible with
#linux, but don't know of quality work dedicated to virtual instruments except from librewave. The libraries are affordable and of high quality.