EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

If you agree that the sampled pianos sound like 2 (or at best 4) levels  
of velocity, you may want to listen to the PMI "Old Lady" Steinway D.   
This demo clearly has more than 4 velocity levels sampled.  I've been  
very happy with it for the last month:

Debussy
http://www.postpiano.com/products/demos/Old/ 
Images%20OLD%20LADY%20Baisc.mp3

- Paul Smith

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> Message: 5
>    Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:07:02 +0100
>    From: <nicolas@...>
> Subject: Re: Steiny D - Sampled Steinway D for EXS24 out now!
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>> 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...
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