I've been hunting around for a sampled steel pan drum vst to use in Reaper (that's the DAW I use) and it seems like this guy named Ben Smith (Glooper) had a friend who played and he sampled the guy playing and made a VST that used to be available out there on the web ... and eventually it was hosted on this Kara-Moon site for musicians. Which appears to be in a dysfunctional state. I don't know if someone broke it and they're planning to put it back together, or if they're just letting it fall apart. Seems like it's been around a while and maybe they've moved on to better things.

At any rate, if anyone knows anything about that or some steel drum sample based VSTi ... let me know.

I found some sfz files but I haven't tried to figure out how to put that all together. I have some reading to do.

I did use the Steel Drum midi patch in BIAB, and it sounds better that a midi plugin I'd used in Reaper, but it is ... well it's lacking something. That certain je ne se quois, as they say.