16 Jan
2017
16 Jan
'17
4:05 p.m.
On Mon, 16 Jan 2017, jonetsu wrote:
CPU is a concern that is explored by u-he. As they
state, it's not
much if people cannot use it. pianoteq does just fine, so one could
wonder - in general - what could be the difference between the
physical modeling of piano and drums regarding CPU usage.
One piano model vs many drum models?
world. Simply play one of pianoteq pianos or
vibraphones and you will
immeditely feel it - it is very clear and distinctive. The actual
Personally, I would say that the difference in modelling a piano with keys
where the inputs for any one key is known is a lot different that the
number of sounds just one snare drum can make just by hitting it in a
different place. This does not even include things like rim shots (again
with various touch points for both skin and rim) or sidestick. MIDI
describes a keyboard quite well, a drum not so much. I don't think there
is even a controller that comes close to picking up the whole information
of a drum performance... for even one drum, let alone a kit or percusion
section. I suspect that really getting a drum performance in MIDI would
require a model for each drum, that uses the note numbers as stick zones.
So pianoteq times 8 or so.... and then no controller anyway. (one might
get away with one drum engine for all toms... might) This is the reasona
guitar synth sounds like a synth... a keyboard synth IMO.
pianoteq is a wonderful sounding instrument. If I was a piano player, or
even had a piano controller (rather than a DX7), I would have it. It
sounds way better than any sampled piano I have heard.
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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net