Re: Sampled piano's in general - Was: White Grand gets reviewed in SOS
2004-04-23 by Nick Batzdorf
Herbert Bolandf wrote: > > Why do sampled instruments sound artificial in general? The ear >> subconsciously detects that something is wrong when individual notes >> sound 100% identical, which is impossible in nature. Unfortunately this >> still is the case (although to a lesser extent) with a lot of layering >> and samples per note, or 24 bits 192 kHz recordings. Maybe they should >> invent a mechanism that alters the attack/transients randomly on every > > note. That might or might not add something to the illusion, but I don't think that the main problem with sampled pianos is that each note sounds identical. You can hear it's sampled without repeated notes. -- Nick Batzdorf 818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434