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

[harrybissell]

and there is another plus for the real piano...

come the revolution, chopped up laptops will not provide much
warmth on a cold winter night :^P

H^) harry

Richard Wentk wrote:

> 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