EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

> SampleTekk is proud to present yet another fine piano available as a
> DirectDownload.
> That means that you buy the Piano, and then instantly get a link from
> where you can download your samples.
> Beats UPS and Fedex but requires a fast line....
>
>
> The Steiny D is a specially designed concert grand that uses samples
> from the Black Grand session. The sampleset has been taken down in size
> to make it downloadable.
> The Steiny D has 8/8/8 velocity layers, 8 samples recorded pedal up, 8
> pedal down and 8 releasesamples per recorded note.
> The instrument used for the Steiny D was a Steinway D Hamburg concert
> grand.
>
>
How can you say that it is sampled with 8 level of velocity!!!
Have you ever tried to play 8 level of different velocity with accuracy and 
consistancy on a piano for real?
All these piano with 8 level of velocity are scam. they are sampled with 2 
or worse only 1 level of velocity and everything is done with Wavelabs or 
Soundforge. Some maybe have 4 REAL level of velocity but no more.
Just listen one of these piano sample at the maximum level of velocity, like 
the Post ones, and you will see that it is just a medium that is louder and 
brighter. It lacks of the metallic sound of the stings when they are 
triggered hardly.
Also when you record the lowest level of velocity, you MUST have noise. Just 
because the piano do not play loud enought and even in the best conditions, 
with the best microphones, in the best studio, if you play a piano at an 
equivalent of 30 of velocity, and you maximize the result, you will have ... 
white noise.
When you listen all these piano's lowest level of velocity, they just sounds 
like a medium passed thru a low pass filter.

That's my advice...