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

[Richard Wentk]

At 12:54 01/01/2005, hichakhok wrote:
>If on a gig i have a choice between my ti laptop with all the giga pianos 
>and a bashed up yamaha £1000
>upright, the upright will win every time. For me the best sampled pianos 
>are not even close to expressive power of cheap uprights.

Yep. It's true some old pianos are so badly maintained and out of tune 
they're painful to be around. But assuming an instrument is in tune and 
isn't one of those appallingly cheap and nasty piano-like objects you see 
in some stores, an upright still wins over a sampled piano.

The problem with a gigaBosendorfer is the implication that you're getting 
something equivalent to a real Bosendorfer for not much money. This is pure 
marketing, and has no relationship to reality. If you want a piano sound as 
part of keyboard layer or a big mix it's fine. If you want something to 
noodle around on, it's fine. If you want something to replace a real piano 
played to a decent standard as a solo performance or recording instrument, 
it's nowhere close.

Richard