EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

>No sampled piano sounds like a real piano, just because no monitor can
>reproduce the sound of the real instrument.
>It is the same with all complex instruments like guitars, strings and so
>on.

Interesting thoughts! 
First of all, let me state the following: A real instrument is one
thing, a sampled is something else.
You can never, in a sampled instrument, fully emulate all the nuances
and timbre that you have in a real instrument.
Does this always make a real instrument a better choice than the sampled
version? I would say no.
Recording projects today are always on a more or less tight budget.
Sure, there are some that have more time and money to spend then others,
but I would say that in 99% of all recording projects your on both a
tight budget and have limited time before your product should be ready.
If you take the case of a piano, sometimes it’s a better choice to use a
good sampled piano then a real one since you doesn’t need to bring in a
tuner for the whole set since a sampled version doesn’t go out of tune,
and you don’t need to use valuable studio time to mike up the piano.
Also, not all studios has a good grand piano standing around.
You just load it and off you go! Instead of 3-4 hours you’re down to 10
minutes.
If we are talking about strings and brass, the cost and time gets even
bigger.
With the quality of today’s sampled instrument you can make a pretty
impressing mock-up of the real thing, at the fraction of the cost that
you would get if using the real stuff. Granted, it all depends on the
type of music you record how close to the real thing you get.
 
Worra
www.sampletekk.com