For all-in-one solutions there are also high quality free soundfonts available. The soundfont VSTs I know of have some bugs, though. I triggered the spam filter when I tried to link to these, so you'll have to google them :)
Sforzando soundfont player (sometimes borks when converting sf2 files)
DSK SF2 (can bug out when opening new files)
"Orchestral soundfonts free" in google brings up a link to a newgrounds forum topic with 3.5Gb of soundfonts.
Two GM soundfonts I like are "32MbGM" and "GeneralUserGS".
For all-in-one solutions there are also high quality free soundfonts available. The soundfont VSTs I know of have some bugs, though. I triggered the spam filter when I tried to link to these, so you'll have to google them :)
Sforzando soundfont player (sometimes borks when converting sf2 files)
DSK SF2 (can bug out when opening new files)
"Orchestral soundfonts free" in google brings up a link to a newgrounds forum topic with 3.5Gb of soundfonts.
Two GM soundfonts I like are "32MbGM" and "GeneralUserGS".