I recall a recent thread in which Steve Nathan said he's been using Truepianos and his clients have preferred it to Ivory. ![]() My response to that is, So what? With all the virtual pianos available, Pianoteq should sound real as soon as I start playing it I shouldn't have to spend time trying to dial in authenticity. The default defense of Pianoteq seems to be that it has a multitude of adjustable paramaters, and that it sounds good in a mix. I also found Truepianos to be more alive and playable, which surprised me given all the talk about how Pianoteq is so playable. To me, Truepianos (Atlantis module) sounds like a good, high-end ROMpler piano, whereas Pianoteq has a synthetic quality to it that makes it unconvincing. In terms of realism, it's not even close: Truepianos over Pianoteq by a mile. I adjusted no velocity settings, and the only EQ adjustment I made was to eliminate any default reverb. Ahh, fugheddabowdid.Ĭreamwares rusty old GSIF 1.0 drivers work flawlessley live w/ SFP.It had been a while since I demoed them, so with fresh ears I put them head to head, testing each on a Casio CDP-120 and a Novation Impulse. I always have these players that use the worst gear live, while claiming their " awesome rig " is in the studio, come up to me and ask how it sounds, I use to tell the truth, but have learned to lie like a booking agent, and simply reply.GGRRREEEEAAAAATTTTTT !!!!!!! It is my imatation of my childhood ceral beast called " Tony The Tiger ". Sorry, live gigging in Vegas causes this outburst. Other than that, they sound GGRRREEEEAAAAATTTTTT !!! Yeah.right. Their velocity response is nill, their sound is passable at best, the fff samples are so annoying. The stock Tascam GigaPianos I refuse to use. Vintaudio's Yamaha Grand is lovely, and his Upright Clinton, and his Upright Boston Steinway. You must pick the sampled piano yourself, then add the resonant body impulses. But I can tell you that GS3 Orchestra, and it's VST counterpart GVI are the only means to achieve this kind of realism. I can't tell you which piano is the best 4 you, only you know that. I shall let GaryB tell you next week as he is visiting again for more new stuff to add in DAW world. My Taj Mahal impulse makes me feel that I am sitting up in a balcony watching myself play. And it sounds like a grand on whatever stage you want it to. Now I can play it w/o fatigue over, and over. On my real Grand ( Baldwin ) I have always felt the strain from the beginning of the piece, if it's played at the correct tempo. allows me to play the whole piece w/o fatigue. I have a generic one that covers most gigs. My MC3000 controller has a huge memory capacity, and stores velocity mappings for each composition. When depressing the sustain pedal, it models the resonance and string to string vibrations w/ harmonics, and gives you an incredible rush as it's realism seems to force you to practice. The mediocre " GigaPiano II " was a great way to demo the abilities of these fabulous ideas, but once I added my various pianos, and applied the Pedal up, and down reverb / mic models, I played until I passed out. When Gigastudio 3 Orchestra w/ GigaPulse Pro Convolution Reverb / Mic Modeller came out, I was floored. I have played every library that came out, and VST and still was silently awaiting 4 someone to get it close enough to use as a solo, or live instrument. ![]() Emulators had no pianos whatsoever, and the only decent piano emu I heard was Ensoniq's w/ the JC 8MB piano ROM. ![]() The latter had it's own sound, but worked in R & Roll O.K. I thought the best sounding piano I played was the Helpinstill Upright, then the Yamaha cp88. Well I can only say that I have played classical piano competitions from the age of 6 till my Conservatory days in St.Louis.
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