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 S
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 don't know how far from civilization you live, but in this case, if you
have such particular tastes in what is and what isn't a good sampled piano,
you need to actually go to hear and learn about the particular instruments
that are out there. As I understand the technology, the downloaded samples
Hi David,
On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 04:40 AM, David H. Bailey wrote:
Well, the proof is in the listening. I like the piano sounds, you
don't. That's cool.
The demos are well done mp3s. They are the actual demos which come
with the unit and aren't that far off from the actual sounds, so
Well, the proof is in the listening. I like the piano sounds, you
don't. That's cool.
The demos are well done mp3s. They are the actual demos which come with
the unit and aren't that far off from the actual sounds, so you are
hearing a good representation of the unit.
But if you are listeni
At 9:20 PM -0400 6/12/03, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Hi David,
Thanks for your comments and your suggestion of the Kurzweil PC2R.
However, I checked out the recorded demos on Kurzweil's web site
(http://www.kurzweilmusicsystems.com/html/pc2_demos.html), and based
on the solo piano piece represent
Hi David,
Thanks for your comments and your suggestion of the Kurzweil PC2R.
However, I checked out the recorded demos on Kurzweil's web site
(http://www.kurzweilmusicsystems.com/html/pc2_demos.html), and based on
the solo piano piece represented there, I don't feel that the PC2R is
*that* mu
on 6/12/03 6:42 PM, David H. Bailey at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Kurzweil has some of the best sounds on the market, and they have a
> single-rack-space module, the PC2r, which has room for two expansion
> modules inside.
Darcy, I was going to say this, but David did it so well.
Tim Price
Fai
A soft synth is not the only way to go.
Kurzweil has some of the best sounds on the market, and they have a
single-rack-space module, the PC2r, which has room for two expansion
modules inside.
Right now they are shipping with the Orchestral Rom installed, which
also allows the unit to be put i
Yes, VSC has bad latency, but with the better samplers running on today's
hardware, it is negligible, especially on OSX (which I know Darcy runs!).
On 6/12/03 4:52 PM, "Jim Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting Darcy James Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> Hmm...
>>
>> I've been followin
Quoting Darcy James Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hmm...
>
> I've been following the soft synth thread with interest because I've
> been thinking of getting a decent sound module for my
> getting-long-in-the-tooth MIDI keyboard. But I gather from the
> comments here that getting an outboard bo
Hmm...
I've been following the soft synth thread with interest because I've
been thinking of getting a decent sound module for my
getting-long-in-the-tooth MIDI keyboard. But I gather from the
comments here that getting an outboard box is no longer a good way to
go -- that even for live perfo
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