[ddots-l] Re: Omar straight from the factory
- From: "Phil Muir" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 22:18:14 +0100
Omar wrote: It's definitely bright.
Phil replied: check out all of the demos for it. For example, the demos
"Come To me" and Crime Seen", don't sound anywhere near as bright as the
piano on it's own.
Omar wrote: Did it say how many gigs that sample is?
Phil replied: It doesn't however, I wouldn't necessarily go on size. Found
this info on the page:
The Bardstown Bosendorfer Imperial Grand Model 290 very accurately captures
the exact sound of a real Bosendorfer Imperial Grand Model 290. All other
sampled Bosendorfers that are available from other companies do not sound
like a real Bosendorfer Imperial Grand Model 290 and sound very artificial
and processed, much like that of an electronic keyboard piano rather than a
real piano. The vast majority of professionals who have all sampled pianos
still proclaim the Bardstown Bosendorfer Imperial Grand Model 290 to be by
far the best sounding sampled piano in the world even though it has been
released over three years ago, and they hardly ever use any of the other
newer sampled pianos if they use them at all because none of the others
sound nearly as good.
This 9 1/2 foot concert grand piano is Bosendorfer's top of the line. The
extra lower bass strings give superior resonance to this world class concert
grand piano. There are four velocity layers of pedal up samples, four
velocity layers of pedal down samples, and release note off samples. The
release "note off" samples very nicely capture the ambient sound of the
performance hall in which this Bosendorfer Imperial was sample recorded.
These are all actual sample recorded velocity layers and without any
filtering in order to produce additional "fake" velocity layers, such has
been done by other developers who claim to have eight to sixteen layer
sampled pianos.
Many other current sampled pianos claiming to have eight to sixteen velocity
layers have been produced by only sample recording two or three actual
velocity layers, and then applying low pass filtering onto those samples in
order to produce up to sixteen "fake" velocity layers, and also with only
every second or third note sample recorded, and with the rest of the notes
being pitch shifted from those notes. Sample editing methods used by these
developers who "streamline" their work include batch auto cropping of
samples, and a great deal of batch processing for many different processes.
These sampling "shortcut" methods are much quicker, easier, and with much
less work involved in producing a sampled instrument. The quality of sound
of any sampled acoustic instrument, which has been produced with these fast
streamlined methods of low pass filtering for producing multiple fake
velocities, pitch shifting of notes, auto cropping, and batch processing for
various tasks, is unnatural and inferior.
Each and every note of the Bardstown Audio Bosendorfer Imperial was sample
recorded at all four velocity levels and articulations of pedal up, pedal
down, and release, and with no pitch shifting of any notes. In other words,
each and every note of the eighty-eight keys on this sampled Bosendorfer
Imperial has been sample recorded nine different ways, for a total of 792
recorded samples. All sampled notes on "all" sampled instruments produced by
Bardstown Audio have been edited and tweaked by hand, one note at a time,
and with no quick streamlining methods or batch processing whatsoever.
The most advanced state of the art recording techniques and world class
recording equipment were used to sample record this Bosendorfer Imperial in
a world class performance hall.
This sampled Bosendorfer Imperial is considered by the vast majority of
people to be the best sounding and most playable sampled piano in the world.
Regards, Phil Muir
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