EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

"nicolas@..." <nicolas@...> wrote:

> Well I thought there would be some kind of reaction to my email :)
> 
> Anyway, I've a piano in front of me, and if you have one, just sit and try
> to play 16 levels of velocity! And I do not attack the developper, I just
> say somehting true!
> 
> Ok lets demonstrate this. You are sampling 88 notes, with 16 level of
> velocity, 1 min each note (plus recording, stop, failed ones etc...) let's
> say 2 min. It is a total of  1408 min. And you have sampled the pedal as
> well? Ok 2816 minutes of pure recording! That means that you have spent 46
> hours in front of this piano, woooooow!
> 
> About saying things publicaly, this is a list, and it is exactly the place
> where things like this must be discussed. Everyone can express his opinions,
> and each will have his own point of view.
> 
> 16 level of velocity, manualy? Even Mulder would not beleive it :)

A computer can control the playing of a mechanical piano through MIDI and in
other ways.  You could easily get 128 levels of velocity or whatever else
you wanted, in a repeatable way.  You¹d need an engineer to run the
recording, but no piano player.