EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

From: Dan Chapman <dan@...>

>Also please check out this comparison site:
>
>http://www.gigfiles.com/keyboards-piano-grand-compare.asp

I was wondering what happened to those recordings I made for him! 
Thanks for the link.

For some reason (perhaps a corrupted MP3?) he didn't put up the best 
recording I sent him: the Kurzweil K250 - from 1984. The K2500's new 
piano is quite good, and the same samples as the K250's in the K2000, 
1000PX, and K2500 (it has the old piano as well) just don't stand up 
to the K250. Of course, it has problems - only one velocity layer, 
and not a lot of air (since it's limited to 12k). But it's still 
incredibly playable.

To  me, all the sampled examples on that site sound pretty sad next 
to the one of the real piano - and that real piano recording is 
awful. While they all have more clarity, the sampled pianos have much 
rougher dynamics than the real one. Their envelopes are also wrong, 
possibly due to overzealous use of compression and possibly due to 
the way they're recorded. And they all have a slightly plastic and 
brittle sound quality, especially in the midrange. And while the 
explanation on that site is a little funky, he's right to point out 
that they all have some phasing problems to one degree or another.

Maybe if you could sample every possible combination of notes with 
the pedal up and down, with many more velocity layers...
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Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434