[sdiy] OT: Grand Piano ?

[Seb Francis]

There are a few good sample based grand pianos available.

Steinberg's "The Grand" for example contains an excellent sample set 
from a Kawai concert grand (1.3GB in all).  I think you can find a 
review somewhere on www.soundonsound.com

3 good piano sample sets are included with Native Instruments Kontakt 2 
sampler on its bundled 4 DVD sound library: a 525MB Steinway D, a 1.5GB 
August Förster, and 68MB of what they call "Prepared Piano" which is a 
nice sounding instrument when you don't want to consume too much 
resources and don't need too much depth and multisamples.

And there's the Synthogy Ivory which has had excellent reviews, although 
I haven't tried it myself .. but this *huge* with 3 different grands 
taking up more than 30GB!

There are also many smaller and cheaper pianos around .. it all depends 
how realistic a playing experience you want/need.

Seb



JH. wrote:

>Off topic, but I know I can count on recomendations from the people of my
>favorite mailing list, so:
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>What's the best Grand Piano emulation available?
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>I'm not a terribly good piano player, so "expression" is most important for
>me: I need convincing
>behaviour of long pedalled passages, and many velocity layers for blowing
>live into simple
>melodic phrases. (;->)
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>So, what's the best on the market? (mainly focusing on VSTi plugins.)
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>JH.
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