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[baconman]

I'm not needing very many; a few key full notes like A/C/F/G per instrument would work; for an electric lead, rhythm and bass guitar, a keyboard or two (new wavey/grand piano/organ, maybe) and basic drums. I've poked a few search sites, and to no avail so far...

Thank you very much!

[Kunal]

I too had tried looking for something similar but couldn't find anything. Eventually I just used a combination of the tweakbench VSTs + Renoise (for generating the sounds), and Audacity (for editing) and made my own samples

[John Nesky]

Being able to create instrument samples was one of the motivations behind this project. (Mac only for now, I haven't had time to work on it in a while. )

[compositeredfox]

Have you taken a look at Fluid yet?
It's a free General Midi soundfont that sounds fantastic.

[ness io kain]

Yeah, I am in need of some free and realistic-sounding instrument samples... I've looked around, but everything either costs money or sounds tacky and synthesized.

[sugarbeard]

From my expirence "free" + "good sounding" don't really go together when it comes to real instrument samples. Chances are if you want something of quality you're going to need to pay for it. Or record them yourself...

[kiwi]

As far as I can tell the linux multimedia studio project has everything you need in ogg format.

[ness io kain]

I have LMMS and I use it all the time... The instruments that come with it are varied in quality, though. Some of them aren't very good.

[nihilocrat]

You can make a tacky / dry sounding instrument sound a bit better by adding some reverb and increasing the release on the envelope. Of course, it's merely a bandaid and quality samples are always going to be better.

[baconman]

muku linked me to some resources, and FreeSound.org has some good ones. So far, I'd endorse the mikey eff, medialint, Jovica, Koen, RealRhodesSounds, and TicTacShutUp's for music. There's a good grip of SFX there, too. It's almost practically sticky-worthy.

I do think a lot of it is in how the samples are utilized (proper stopping/flowing of them, for instance), but only trial and error will tell what comes out, I suppose!