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

[JH.]

> >>(regarding sustain pedal down samples) But they don't work like a piano,
> because you'd have to create a different mix for every chord to include
the
> overtones of each chord in addition to the notes themselves.<<
>
> This is nit-picking.  Each sampled note already has coupled string
vibration
> within it do to the sustain pedal held down.  There's no need to do a
> different mix for every chord since the different notes already have
> different coupled string vibrations.

I don't know if I got that right, but I think the point was that with the
sustain
pedal _not_ activated, you mainly have resonances from the few undamped
notes that are still held with your fingers. Play a C in the bass range, let
the finger
rest on that key even when that note has faded away, and then play a chord
in the mid range with the other hand. This new chord will make the
low C strings resonate, but not (or much less) the neighbouring notes of
that
C whose key is not held. Was that the idea? I can imagine that this does
make
a difference.


> BTW, since most people don't have a Bosendorfer sitting in their house, a
> sampled Bosendorfer probably sounds a lot better than what they do have
even
> if the strings don't behave 100% like the real thing.

Absolutely. Speaking for myself, I look for improovement, not for
perfection.
My Kawai CA600 has rather short (and probably looped) samples, and
samples of a Kawai piano not a Bösi, and certainly no resonance emulation
at all. So pretty much everything sampled from a Bösendorfer would be an
improovement, mutual resonances or not. If it has some simulation of
sustain pedal activated resonances, so much the better. If it had the
sort of resonances Richard described, even better!

JH.