On the other hand, even using a mechanical system like VSL used for the Imperial doesn't neccessarily yield the desired results. It's super hard to be consistent across the keyboard and across all velocity levels. Honestly I find it hard to understand how sample makers record their samples with a real pianist.
They could have handled it like for example Bechstein who used a kind of robot for their sampling. I didn't even know that Steinway had a proprietary midi playback system too. If I want Speedy Pianozales I'll load up Pianoteq in half a second and enjoy those deeply rich, authentic, beautiful sounds, lol.Īnyway, what you say about the CEUS and Disklavier system makes sense, I did not consider this. But I do agree about the loading times, but that is a fairly small gripe, wouldn't you agree? I'll just wait ten seconds and play a superior instrument. You can remove mic perspectives from the Garritan CFX so you only have one perspective that uses around 25 GB on your disk (without soft samples), so the size is not much of an issue to me personally because I pretty much dislike two of the three perspectives. The instrument does have its qualities for sure, but it's outplayed by the Garritan CFX in this regard, L.
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