EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

(Sorry for the sloppy quoting, but this one has too many droppings to 
clean up properly.)


After my post below, I heard Michiel Post's Grandioso B\ufffdsendorfer 
demo and bought it. It sounds totally real in a concert or orchestral 
setting (only, because of the miking technique), the best one I've 
heard by a long shot. But playing it is different from other sampled 
pianos, because even the dry version is wet, and it's in a hall - 
i.e. you're playing a piano that's some distance away!

My second favorite sampled piano is still the 19-year-old one in my 
Kurzweil 250.






>I had this idea from all I had read that the Bardstown Bosendorfer would be=
>
>  nearly
>perfect - maybe my expectations were too high, but it was a disappointment =
>
>for me.
>To me, there is an inconsitency in some notes/velocities that really surpri=
>
>sed me - I
>also realize how hard it must be to get all those velocities perfect. I hav=
>
>en't been able
>to use it on several of my pieces because of a choked sounding note(s) in t=
>
>he lower
>register. I was using it with the 30 day trial of EXS24 - my trial has expi=
>
>red and I
>haven't bought EXS24 because my main reason was to use it with Bardstown. I=
>
>  need
>to complain to Bardstown, but w/o EXS24 to play it I've forgotten which not=
>
>es were
>not working for me...
>
>The Bardstown Bosendorfer can sound nice on the right tune - it just wasn't=
>
>  what I
>was expecting. Of course it sounds nothing like a Steinway or the piano use=
>
>d on Holy
>Grail Piano - something along these lines might have suited me better.
>
>Just my 2\ufffd - your mileage may vary!
>Andy
>
>
>--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, "esiegel2" <esiegel2@y...> wrote:
>>  Hello:\ufffd
>>
>>  I am a pianist who is looking for the best exsII piano sample
>>  library.  I am grateful for all the responses on this thread.  For
>>  the Bardstown library, would it be useable on a G4 550 laptop with
>>  768 RAM?  What does it mean for overall performance that it is so
>>  RAM hungry?
>>
>  > I am using the Steinway C from East West and am...underwhelmed.  So
>>  far, the most playable sampled piano I have used is the resident
>>  samples in my ensoniq ZR76, which includes the Coakley Perfect
>>  Piano.  Hardly perfect, and the samples are much shorter and fewer
>>  than some of the libraries, but the integration is better, the
>>  velocity curves and sample mapping to velocity work better for me.
>>
>>  Thanks.
>>
>>  Eric
>>
>>  --- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Nick Batzdorf <recording@e...>
>  > wrote:
>  > > By the way, I don't mean to insult the efforts of all these
>  > > developers! The sampled pianos are all very good. It's just that
>  > the
>  > > technology has a ways to go before it matches a real piano in an
>  > A/B
>  > > comparison.
>  > > --
>  > >

-- 

Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434