EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I had a chance to play the steinberg Grand the other day. The response of 
it is incredible, the attack portion doesn't feel sampled at all, totally 
natural. When you play soft, it sounds soft, and when you play hard, you 
hear a hard attack, and everything in between. The dynamic range of the 
thing is unbelievable! Without any sample switching that I could hear. And 
I thought I was perceiving the sympathetic resonance part of it too. All of 
these things made it extremely inviting to play, especially compared to the 
PC2 beside it, which felt plastic and fake compared to it.

However, to my ears the character of the samples have problems, especially 
in the two octaves below middle C. The D below middle C is the worst 
offender, the tone of it is terrible, very nasally, some overtone ringing 
way too loud. When I was chording in this range it sounded very murky and 
thick, not rich and clean like the PC2.

Granted, I was only able to hear the 256 meg(ram) setting because they 
didn't have the 1 gig of ram necessary to hear the full sound. I did hear a 
bit of the full sound, and it seemed to be a bit better, but I'm not sure 
how much...

I wonder if they are planning to upgrade the samples...

Just thought I'd share. Darcy