I'm pleased to announce that new versions of the lovely Yamaha C5 Salamander Pianos originally created by Alexander Holm (creative commons) are now available from my website (for free of course).
I've done a lot of editing on Polyphone to loop the needlessly long samples at the almost inaudible tail ends (many after 15 to 20 seconds). Needless to say the software did a great job of finding the perfect loops and I cant tell the difference between the very long-sampled versions and the more compact versions. I also found a great piece of free software called Wavosaur that allowed me to reduce the latency of the samples by editing every stereo pair by removing the silent or near silent front sections.
Surprisingly also the 6 level sampled Salamander sounds every bit as good as the 15 layered one. Both versions available here
sites.google.com/site/soundfonts4u/