piano sounds

[Yann_]

is it possible to recreate piano sounds with any virus

i own a virus-c

maybe u people know more let me know

tia

[Doc Jones]

well, you can pretty much create any type of sound with the virus. The more important question would be how realistic will that sound be. My suspicion is not very. (That's why I bought ivory vst ;)

[Timo]

Sound-On-Sound articles:

[Synthesizing acoustic pianos - Theory (http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Oct02/articles/synthsecrets10.asp)]
[Synthesizing a piano on a Roland JX10 - Part 1 (http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Nov02/articles/synthsecrets1102.asp)]
[Synthesizing a piano on a Roland JX10 - Part 2 (http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Dec02/articles/synthsecrets1202.asp)]
[Synthesizing a piano on a Roland JX10 - Part 3 (http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Jan03/articles/synthsecrets0103.asp)]

(btw Roland JX10 is a really basic 12-voice, 2 oscillator, 2 filter, 2 ADSR EG, analogue synth. The Virus far more capable in terms of features, so you should be able to follow it.).

I think I actually stumbled upon a nice piano-ish type preset on the Virus once. Can't for the life of me think what its name was or where it's from.

Obviously it's never going to sound like a real acoustic piano (hence why there are countless piano VSTi instruments out there that are upwards of 1GB sample data!), but I imagine you could get close in a faux, rock-piano, synthetic type way.

[AlexHall74]

Excellent info, Timo!

mda Piano = FREE VST piano.

Samplers = good piano sounds; the bigger the samples, the more layers, the better/more realistic the piano sound.

Yamaha makes a PLG expansion board for the Motif/Motif ES series that only does piano, that's a great example of how detailed and intricate some wnat a synthetic piano to sound.

I think that Colossus VST from EWQL has a 2 GB piano instrument if I amnot mistaken.

Wusikstation has some pretty damn good paino sounds from what I've heard. For $9.9r/month you gt access to all of the Wusik products and sound libraries at www.wusik.com with a WSM membership.

I've got to go, the bath tub is about to overflow!

;)

Ciao,

-Alex

[Doc Jones]

this one by far has to be my favorite and (in my opinion) the most realistic acoustic grand piano vst --> http://www.synthogy.com/products/italiangrand.html

[AlexHall74]

this one by far has to be my favorite and (in my opinion) the most realistic acoustic grand piano vst --> http://www.synthogy.com/products/italiangrand.html
Now that's one I have never heard of, Doc! Nice! The piano is a tiemelss and incredibly versatile instrument. The fact that a real one is too big to put in many people's homes/apartments, too much money for one that sounds decent, and of course a maintenance issue with tunings/etc. have made quite possibly made it the ideal candidate for a sampled instrument.

Why in the hell hasn't anyone developed "Miroslav Tuba?" Don't we need a 10 GigaByte tuba sampled instrument to add into our mixes?

;)

[Doc Jones]

Don't we need a 10 GigaByte tuba sampled instrument to add into our mixes?

I believe this man would say yes.
http://www.musikvereinpettendorf.de/homepage_musikverein_pettendorf/bilder/tuba.jpg

[AlexHall74]

I believe this man would say yes.
http://www.musikvereinpettendorf.de/homepage_musikverein_pettendorf/bilder/tuba.jpg
BWAHH!

Doc, is that a picture of OVM when he was in a high school Oompa band?

;)

[Monobeat]

That guy blows...... literally.