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Back OT (if that's possible at this juncture), I think Noire is my new favorite VST in playability, sound, and flexibility. The only drawback is that you only have close mic positions, but for most people playing solo piano, that's perfect.
Good point Deltajockey. It is great we have all these choices Growing up, only had my upright piano and that was it to practice on. My teacher came to the house.
All these years playing and I still consider myself a novice.
Back OT (if that's possible at this juncture), I think Noire is my new favorite VST in playability, sound, and flexibility. The only drawback is that you only have close mic positions, but for most people playing solo piano, that's perfect.
Nice to see you posting. I missed your insight. You always seemed to give a thoughtful answer š
All these years playing and I still consider myself a novice.
Back OT (if that's possible at this juncture), I think Noire is my new favorite VST in playability, sound, and flexibility. The only drawback is that you only have close mic positions, but for most people playing solo piano, that's perfect.
Nice to see you posting. I missed your insight. You always seemed to give a thoughtful answer š
Thanks! Took a little break, then just got used to not posting, but this has always been a great forum.
Sure, but everyone here has a very good concept of what an AP is, and the compromises with VSTs.
Many on this forum haven't even seen or touched an acoustic piano in person. They are modeling their perception after CD recordings of grand pianos or movie soundtracks with heavily processed piano samples.
Absolutely correct.
I deal with people all the time who think they want realism - often that turns out not to be the case!
It's funny how it works. People listen to a movie soundtrack and recognize a certain piano sample, which has been used to produce that. Then they buy the same sample library and are amazed, how "realistic" it reproduces "[Brand] [Model]", while they just react positively to sample-exact reproduction of something they heard and enjoyed before.
My Yamaha P-515 digital piano has a really bright, but pretty unrealistic "Studio Grand" sample, which I liked for some reason. One day when I was playing along to some of my favorite songs, I heard beating frequencies, because they used the exact same sample, which was slightly out of tune with my own digital piano, but similar enough to create beats. I solved by switching to a different voice, but I realized what was the reason for me liking that certain voice.
We simply prefer what is already familiar to us.
What do you mean by "beating"? What does it sound like?
They told him donāt you ever come around here Donāt want to see your face, you better disappear ā¦so beat it, just beat itā¦..
Just beat it, beat it,ā¦. No one wants to be defeated Showinā how funky and strong is your fight It doesnāt matter whoās wrong or right
Just beat it (beating) beat itā¦ā¦..
If youād paid a little attention, it wouldāve been clear that this song defines us verbatim (no one wants to beat it), and I feel that sometimes itās fine to beat it, and itās not always necessary to ābe showinā how funky and strong is your fightā (āPianoteq sucksā) because sometimes it doesnāt matter whoās wrong or rightā¦ā¦ā¦
Classic millennial never paying attention to the details and swiftly jumping to conclusions, but youāre right, Iām old!
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