6 Dec
2010
6 Dec
'10
1:19 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Julien Claassen <julien(a)c-lab.de> wrote:
Hello!
Sorry for getting this a bit of track for a moment... About pianoseq and
sampled pianos.
I think it's a question of religion. I've heard one or two people, say,
that pianoseqs instruments are so marvellous and alive. I listened to a few
tracks and it doesn't sound bad. But it isn't to my taste. Just to compare,
I've found the Yamaha 7CG on sampletekk. I use the JR., the smaller one
here. Admittedly it's still huge. but I set there and found myself back at
school, sitting at the grandpiano. Not ours, which was a Steinway, but the
one of the other schools. Or at university in one of the practise rooms. I
don't know, it feels so real. Probably due to a bit of ambience just
perceiveable minutelyround the edges. It does well for me for solo and
integrating in a song. It's only one sound.
No. That's a fundamental misconception about the Pianoteq piano synth
engine. Its a physically modelled piano and mic and reverb setup,
which means that you can change an awful lot of parameters that are
actually associated with a physical piano: hammer hardness, mic
position, sympathetic resonance, string tension, tuning and more. The
notion that Pianoteq's piano has "a sound" is fundamentally wrong,
although it may be true that the internals of their model do make
certain possibilities unachievable. It is not sample-based instrument,
and so cannot be judged by "listening to a few tracks". What you heard
wer some specific settings that someone chose to use. Unlike a
sample-based piano, Pianoteq can do a job of being a Bosendorfer OR a
Steinway, with a wrecked sound box or a very lively one. etc. etc.
etc.