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As a pianist, i'm always looking for the 'right' piano
sound.
The piano sound i use, was entirely programmed by myself, on an old
Korg X-3, working a lot with eq. and reverb and i'm enough happy with
it (if you want listen to it: http://xoomer.alice.it/eterogeneo/VIDEO/F_Anile_1st_Zurich_Loopfest.mov)
But...i said "enough", not "totally"....
Tha't's why, even if you use the best sampled piano or a VSTi, you'll
miss the basic element that's "expression".
Electric guitar player, for example, doesn't have that problem: even if
playing an acoustic guitar is different than playing an electric guitar, the
musician doesn't loose so much expression, because the mechanism for obtaining
the sounds it's the same: a finger that hit a string.
But when you play a sampled piano or a synth, you loose the 'real'
mechanism in producing sound: a finger that hits a key, an hammer that hits a
string..
That's the big limit in piano emulation.
When i studied classic piano, the first technic' study was to
reach the same strenght on all the 10 fingers; strenght is different than
get a loud sound, because the strenght of your finger is necessary to get
exactly the sound you want from "that" finger.
A pianissimo played with your 5° finger of your left hand has to
sound exactly like if you're playing with the 2nd finger of your right hand, and
so on. As you may know...it seems...but it's not so easy....
Even if all keyboards nowdays are touch sensitive, they miss the "real"
response to the strenght of your fingers and the conclusion is that all the
intensity variations you can get from a piano are nearly impossible from a
synth.
That's why, i'm now thinking that the best thing is buy a r
e a l electric piano (there are a lot out of here, much or less
expensive) with a good sound and - a b s o l u t e l y - weighted
keys.
My 2 cents...in my poor english....
Best
fabio
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