Buggy Whips [was]Re: [sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD recording?

[Richard Wentk]

At 07:15 27/12/2004, Kenneth Elhardt wrote:
>Richard Wentk writes:
> >Not much. Much of the acoustic character of these sounds comes from
> >resonances that aren't copied by one-note-at-a-time sampling. None of the
> >gigasampled pianos I've heard have come close to the real thing.
>
>This doesn't make any sense.  When you record a piano note you get what you
>hear whether it's in a sample or a direct piano performance.  That includes
>simpathetic resonances, piano noises, and anything else.

I take it you're not overly familiar with the physics of pianos, pipe 
organs or orchestras. ;-)

Simple experiment: 'play' middle C and the C above it so softly they don't 
sound. Give the C below middle C a staccato thwack.

Can you hear anything?

Try the same on a sampled piano. Tell me what you hear.

You get the same effect in a real orchestra, although it tends to be more 
subtle. It's more subtle still for pipe organs where the resonance happens 
in the reverberant space the organ lives in.

No sampler models this acoustic coupling between resonant and reverberant 
elements, which is exactly the thing that produces the richness and depth 
of these acoustic instruments.

Richard