If you really want the extra quality without the hassle, track down the Roland Sound Canvas VA (discontinued but still around). It’s the official software version with vastly better DAC emulation and no sample-stretching artifacts.

He dove deeper. Strings swelled with the mannered restraint of a chamber ensemble, but beneath them lived a chorus of subtle detuning and breath—imperfections that modern libraries ironed out for clinical perfection but which here made the sound ache with life. A harpsichord patch chimed with crystalline attack, and yet its tail whispered sympathetic vibrations that suggested hidden passages and echoing halls. Jonas compared it mentally to high-resolution sample packs he’d bought for hundreds of dollars; this “extra quality” had a strange depth that dollars alone couldn’t buy.