[ddots-l] Re: Omar straight from the factory

  • From: "Omar Binno" <omarbinno@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 09:26:29 -0400

I've never used ivory, but I have the 1gb sample of the bozendorfer Grand from 
EastWest, and I played it through VSampler and tried it in a recording 
recently. I put it side by side, as you might say, with a yamaha p120 electric 
piano, and I can tell you that I, and my recording partners, all agreed that 
the yamaha certainly sounded warmer and more full. Now, i probably could have 
eqed the eastwest sample to get warmer, but we're talking "straight from the 
factory" here. I know Ivory has been discussed on this list, but I don't recall 
how accessible it is with jaws. Most of the higher softsynths aren't 
accessible, so you can't edit the sounds the way you want, which is why you 
won't get strings or brasses sounding the way you do in a hardware synth. The 
demos you hear of these instruments are done with sounds already edited, 
layered, etc by technicians from the manufacturers; which is why they sound as 
great as they do in the demo.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Blake Hardin 
  To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 3:40 AM
  Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Omar straight from the factory


  There is not a hardware synth on the market that i know of that can
  touch ivory grant or art vista for pianos. The kurzweil is very good
  at pianos but there just different sounding. The motifs sound to
  digital to me but i know they are supposed to have some very good
  expantion boards and those pianos sound really good from what i have
  heard. But, i guess you just can't beat a  40 gig sampled library of
  pianos verses maybe a 30 meg hardware sample.

  On 4/3/10, Omar Binno <omarbinno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  > Hi Steve,
  >
  > I haven't used vsts in live settings, but I know, for recording purposes,
  > I'm not a believer in most of the orchestral stuff you get with them.
  >   ----- Original Message -----
  >   From: Steve Wicketts
  >   To: ddtots
  >   Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 9:15 AM
  >   Subject: [ddots-l] Omar straight from the factory
  >
  >
  >   Hi Omar,
  >
  >   Well I'm about to find out whether VST's can cut it live.
  >   Tonight is my first gig where I'm just using VST sounds.
  >   I'll soon find out whether they have the same impact as the Motif, as all
  > my previous tracks were recorded using the Motif.
  >
  >   These VST's have been put through so many processors, I wouldn't be
  > surprised if they were suffering with a little  travel sickness?
  >
  >   Will let you know how I got on.
  >   Steve W
  >
  >
  >
  >
  >   __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus
  > signature database 4996 (20100403) __________
  >
  >   The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.
  >
  >   http://www.eset.com
  >


  -- 
  Interested in guitar lessons? Im me at Blindboyblake1.
  PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE!
  To leave the list, click on the immediately following link:
  ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe
  If this link doesn't work then send a message to:
  ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  and in the Subject line type
  unsubscribe
  For other list commands such as vacation mode, 
  click on the immediately following link:
  ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or
  send a message, to 
  ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  and in the Subject line type
  faq

Other related posts: