EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hi,

On 15-Mar-05, at 6:07 AM, <nicolas@...> wrote:

>  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.

How can *YOU* say this?  Have you been involved in the recording 
process?  I've heard of some companies using a mechanical trigger in 
order to more accurately get different levels of velocity.  While 
sampled pianos are not exactly the same thing as playing a real one (at 
least for me), they sure beat the heck out of me dragging a grand piano 
into my living room, breaking my back, listening to my wife complain 
that there's no room for anything else, mic-ing it up (only to have 
phase issues from not knowing how to properly mic a piano), recording 
my performance 50 times (because of the 50 mistakes that I've just 
made).

>  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.

So, when someone records a real piano in a studio while playing softly, 
you are only going to hear noise?  I'm sure that it is only when I'm 
playing the piano that you'll hear noise but that's besides the point. 
;-)

Anyway, I don't see why you need to attack the developer here.  All you 
are doing is making generalized statements about the sampled pianos 
that you have heard and not specifically about this piano.  Some of 
your comments speak of the recording/sampling process which, I'm sure, 
you had nothing to do with.

Anyway, I just don't think that you are being very constructive here 
and are "scamming" as well.  Anyway, I think that the best *advice* 
that you or I can possibly give is to recommend that people listen to 
the demos and request more if they want to hear the maximum velocity or 
softer velocities.

Best regards,
Fernstudio

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