Darcy,
I have a Chickering grand piano in my living room which I love to play
with the lid open. The room has lots of glass and the floor is tile. The
sound, from PPP to FFF is delightful to swim in.
I also have a Kurzweil 2500 which I happen to enjoy, using 13 of my
favorite different Steinway grand pianos, sampled. The sound is different,
just like any two pianos are different, and the sounds among the Steinways
is different as well. I equally enjoy swimming in the sounds from PPP to
FFF. There is nothing artificial about the sound, nothing thin, no sacrifice
in resonance, richness or fullness of sound, or the degree of control,
nuance, sustain, dampening, etc.
The Kurzweil is great because it has so many layers and signal processing
capabilities, you can experience almost any instrument in almost any
environment with amazing realism, IMHO.
There seems to be a disconnect somewhere in my understanding of what you
are looking for or hearing, or not hearing. All I can suggest is that you
actually try out a Kurzweil before your commit yourself to something else,
if not on my recommendation, on David Bailey's, for sure.
Tim price
Fairlee, VT
on 6/13/03 4:12 PM, Darcy James Argue at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 12:01 PM, timothy price wrote:
>
>> As I understand the technology, the downloaded samples
>> that you are listening to are probably not the same 32 bit sounds
>> which are
>> generated by the instruments you are mentioning, especially with MP3
>> compression from the web.
>
> Well yes, I understand that. These have been recorded to 16-bit, 44.1
> KHz MP3s, in most cases with a 128 bps bitrate. But since I know what
> *real* pianos like when they have been recorded to 16-bit, 44.1 KHz
> MP3s with a 128 kps bitrate, I have some idea what kind of audio
> information tends to get lost in the translation, and what is
> preserved. This gives me at least some place to start. But if I hear
> a piano sample with bad, clumsy velocity switching in the MP3 demo,
> that problem is only going to be *more* annoying when I hear it live.
>
>> You are trying to by a diamond from a TV image.
>
> Actually, I'm trying to narrow the possibilities. The vast majority of
> the piano samples I've heard are totally unacceptable, and I know there
> are going to be totally acceptable even if I went to hear them in
> person. So I won't waste my time doing that. But of course I'm
> planning on trying out the better sample libraries in person before I
> plunk down the cash.
>
> - Darcy
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