ATW10C
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This is from a pianoworld thread.
First listen to a recording of a Steinway B.
http://oneamongmany.net/pianos.mp3
Next listen to the samples, 24 DPs and Synth and among them, the recording of the Steinway B again. 75meg, 38 mins.
http://oneamongmany.net/pianos.mp3
Note down what you like.
Then check against the list with the sample sources named. http://oneamongmany.net/list.txt Don't give away spoilers when discussing your preferences.
I got a hypothesis. Those learning piano on a non acoustic piano will like the real recording and VSTIs better than DP. And possible, a VSTI better than the real acoustic Steinway.
My preferences from the test which I just did.
I didn't give a rating like 1 to 10. I started with "it sounds ok" but noted that the tones were "isolated". Ok while lacking resonance, acceptable to listen. Wouldn't die from listening to it but not particularly oustanding. Some samples sounded above ok. Nice resonance (or is the term reverb?), wide contrast rather than a narrow spectrum of high and low pitch notes.
I like the Steinway B recording that was in the list. But I liked Pianoteq BETTER than the Steinway B. It was warm and bright, had a sparkle to it. Altogether there was 7 that were above ok and 3 were below ok.
Out of the 7, only 1 was a DP, Casio PX-200 which I liked better than Akoustik Piano. The next best VSTI after Pianoteq was TruePiano Emerald. The other 2 VSTI I liked were Art Vista and Konkakt 3.
The 3 below ok were Roland FP-7, next worse Post Musical Instruments and the worst, Korg Triton.
So are such preferences sad, an abomination or is this the future?
My background - noob, 6 months thereabouts, no prior, learning on a Casio CTK3000 (based on my field test, its about the same or just little lighter than semi weighted keys, tested Roland, Novation, CME, Yamaha), probably will go on to a Akai MPK88 on Pianoteq or TruePiano. Could care less about graded key but I do want some resistance to the keys, find semi weighted fine enough but real piano keys seem floaty. I like the Roland's stage pianos key action the best though.
First listen to a recording of a Steinway B.
http://oneamongmany.net/pianos.mp3
Next listen to the samples, 24 DPs and Synth and among them, the recording of the Steinway B again. 75meg, 38 mins.
http://oneamongmany.net/pianos.mp3
Note down what you like.
Then check against the list with the sample sources named. http://oneamongmany.net/list.txt Don't give away spoilers when discussing your preferences.
I got a hypothesis. Those learning piano on a non acoustic piano will like the real recording and VSTIs better than DP. And possible, a VSTI better than the real acoustic Steinway.
My preferences from the test which I just did.
I didn't give a rating like 1 to 10. I started with "it sounds ok" but noted that the tones were "isolated". Ok while lacking resonance, acceptable to listen. Wouldn't die from listening to it but not particularly oustanding. Some samples sounded above ok. Nice resonance (or is the term reverb?), wide contrast rather than a narrow spectrum of high and low pitch notes.
I like the Steinway B recording that was in the list. But I liked Pianoteq BETTER than the Steinway B. It was warm and bright, had a sparkle to it. Altogether there was 7 that were above ok and 3 were below ok.
Out of the 7, only 1 was a DP, Casio PX-200 which I liked better than Akoustik Piano. The next best VSTI after Pianoteq was TruePiano Emerald. The other 2 VSTI I liked were Art Vista and Konkakt 3.
The 3 below ok were Roland FP-7, next worse Post Musical Instruments and the worst, Korg Triton.
So are such preferences sad, an abomination or is this the future?
My background - noob, 6 months thereabouts, no prior, learning on a Casio CTK3000 (based on my field test, its about the same or just little lighter than semi weighted keys, tested Roland, Novation, CME, Yamaha), probably will go on to a Akai MPK88 on Pianoteq or TruePiano. Could care less about graded key but I do want some resistance to the keys, find semi weighted fine enough but real piano keys seem floaty. I like the Roland's stage pianos key action the best though.
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