EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

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> Well I thought there would be some kind of reaction to my email :)
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> 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!
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> 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 :)
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> 

Nicholas, you have every right to express your opinion, but I don't
think that you have the right to call me and our products a scam!
Nor do I think that you have the right to call me a lier.
We have developed a way of sampling this many, and more, velocities from
a piano. It's not based on mechanical arms or computer controlled
hammers. How it works, I'm not willing to discuss here since it's
something that has been developed by us and are an important tool for us
as a company. I think that you can understand this!
If you don't believe me, well, not much I can do about that...
Just to prove it to you, you can download this rar-file. It contains the
31(!) pedalup samples from the A4 note on our ongoing project, a Yamaha
C7
www.sampletekk.com/velocity/sampletekk.rar
It's big, 40Mb, but if you unpack it, you can check the samples as much
as you like. They are all unique and come from true recordings. NOT from
recording less samples and then makes new samples out of these!

As for your description on the time, it's pretty accurate. The Steinway
D that was sampled for the Steiny D and Black Grand took about 5 days to
sample with a working day having around 14-16 hours of sampling. It's
NOT fun, I can tell you that.
We also rented the whole concert hall for this purpose.
Then after that, you have thousands of samples to edit, (by hand) to get
the starting points right.
A production of a piano of the Black Grands magnitude spans over 5-6
months and costs around $25.000-$30.000 to develop, so my friend, this
is serious business for us, not something that we do on a afternoon with
a DAT recorder and a couple of cheap microphones. This is what I do for
a living!
You can look at some pictures from the recording session and read a bit
more about how it was done at http://www.sampletekk.com/bgresource.php

I really, really think that you have every right in the world to express
your opinions on our products, or any products for that sake.
If you think that they stink, that they are the worst sounding piece of
crap you have ever heard, you are entitled to say so. I won't even argue
with that! It's personal taste.
But please understand my point. I don't think it's fair of you to call
it a scam and to imply that I'm lying or trying to keep from saying the
absolute truth, because you simply can't know that. You can think it's
unbelievable, and that's really great, because then it means that we
have achieved something. But please Nicolas, don't call me a liar.

Best
Per Larsson
SampleTekk