Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Thanks a lot... I appreciate it... I've been doing some thinking and 
I finally realized what I'm missing. I'm really unhappy about not 
being able to replicate my acoustic piano with a keyboard... I posted 
my situation at the SOS forum (since it's really not a Xl-7 related 
question...). if anyone wnats to try to help me out...

"I spent three years without my acoustic piano... for the first year 
I hardly composed anything, then I started to compose some things 
after I began to play with organ and electric pianos sounds. I just 
moved back to the place where I left my piano and I'm flowing with 
ideas again... I'm not a lineal composer but more of a structural 
composer... I deal with harmony and dynamics a lot and they way my 
body reacts to them... Most of the things are jazz-like improvised 
pieces. I just realized that is the lack of feedback that I get from 
my QS8 that puts me of... I can't work around my piano part if I 
record my acoustic piano since it'd be out of tune enough to not 
sounds right when I add the other melodic instruments... But when I 
play my QS8 I just don't get inspired... 

For me recording an acoustic piano is just not an option... Since I 
need to be able to play at what ever time I want (ei. 2am) and I 
don't have a studio room big enough for it... Also, I don't make 
enough money to have somebody come to my house to tune the piano 
every week....

I looked around and found this plug called "Steinberg The Grand 
Virtual Grand Piano"... Has anyobody tried it? I also have an EMu ESi 
sampler with 128mb of memory... If anybody know of a good sample cd 
or plug please help me out....

I like the feel of the alesis enough, is the sound dynamics what i 
don't like. I especially hate how unrealistic the sustain pedal 
sounds and the fact the the aftertouch seems to be for all the keys 
and not each single key individually...

I've played some expensive roland and yamaha electric pianos and 
though they responded better it wasn't really that close to a real 
piano...

Do any of you is going or went through the same situation?

I'm really frustrated... Any help is more than welcome....."


BTW, has anybody tried the acoustic pianos on the ZR rom? It's 
supposed to be great...


thanks...


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, erik_magrini@B... wrote:
> Thanks! I don't know much about the soft module/synth subject... 
What 
> I'm really looking for is a soft/hard module with good acoustic and 
> old keyboard sounds... 
> 
> >>>Ah, you definitely don't want Plex then, it's more for weird 
sounds and 
> shit you've never heard before. <<<
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> I'm not much of a synthhead...  I'm quite happy in that deparment 
with my 
> XL-7, the ES1/2 in logic 5 and the 
> free stuff I've downloaded like crystal 2. I just mess with the 
parameters 
> til i get something I like... Mostly atmospheric sounds and some 
> background melodies/harmonies. Where I'm not fully happy is with 
the 
> acoustic pianos (and strings for the most part)... Any advice on 
that 
> deparment?
> 
> >>>If you want to keep it in the XL-7, I'd suggest a P2500 Rom 
(otherwise 
> known as the Proteus Pop ROM) which is exactly what I use for those 
types 
> of sounds.  Otherwise, in terms of software you could maybe go with 
> Sampletank and a bread and butter collection of samples they 
offer.  In 
> terms of hardware, maybe something like a Roland JV1010, or a used 
> XV-2020?  Going to be hard to find hardware that cheap though, even 
used. 
> My vote would be for the ROM. <<<
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