[sdiy] OT: Grand Piano ?

[JH.]

Hi Seb,

thanks for the recommendations!

> 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!

I wasn't aware of this one - looks interesting! Hope they'll offer a PC
version soon ...

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

The price category is ok - I guess I have to spend some money on RAM anyway.
I really want it as realistic as possible.

What I had considered the big players so far are the Steinberg Grand 2 and
the Bösendorfer 290
(http://www.soundsonline.com/sophtml/details.phtml?sku=EW-157).
How do these compare to the Ivory ?

JH.




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> >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
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> >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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