pabloaugustus
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A great example is the funky upright in abbey road studios that is so famous in recordings NI released it as a sample. I really like the NI grand pianos, its nice they let you load a full version with all overtones and it sounds quite amazing.
Thats one thing I've never understood about high end stage pianos and workstations synths....have can they compete with the sample size of a software sample and still make pretty great piano sounds.
Part of the problem is that people are very familiar with the way pianos sound. Grand pianos are not kept in cases tucked under peoples' beds like guitars, they are usually out in the open for anyone to play (or sneak a few notes in). I mean, who hasn't played notes on a piano before? Also pianos (of the same type) do not have wildly different sound qualities, unlike vocals or synthesizers or electric guitars. This means that there is essentially a standard piano sound that people are quite familiar with. They are also used in just about every genre of music.
For other instruments with more variations in the sound, it is more difficult to say it's not reproduced accurately unless you were in the studio and heard the actual guitar / recording. A piano is not a complex instrument, but I think they have a sound that is simple enough for us to remember what they ought to sound like, but complex enough for reproduction to not be trivial like a sine wave.
So it isn't that pianos are unusually difficult to reproduce -- it is that it's easier for us to identify flaws in a piano recording because of our familiarity with them.
A great example is the funky upright in abbey road studios that is so famous in recordings NI released it as a sample. I really like the NI grand pianos, its nice they let you load a full version with all overtones and it sounds quite amazing.
Thats one thing I've never understood about high end stage pianos and workstations synths....have can they compete with the sample size of a software sample and still make pretty great piano sounds.