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And there’s more than just pianos, as I’ll talk about later in this review. Their product Pianoteq has grown by leaps and bounds in that time, and now encompasses a library of nine major emulations of acoustic pianos, along with a variety of historical 18th- and 19th-century pianos. This is the field of study and expertise that the French company Modartt has been exploring and honing for the last 12 years. In this way the designer has very precise control over each element of the instrument’s design and construction, how it responds to playing, and how these elements interact with each other and often allows the user to control and change these elements, giving the user the ability to reshape the sound and response in ways impossible with a static recording process such as sampling.
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The software designer studies, then re-creates, how that element behaves and responds to various stimulations, whether struck, bowed, plucked, or blown into. In physical modeling, the materials and mechanical characteristics of an object are examined, and then a computer model of each component or element is built. Physical modeling is a successful technology that’s becoming a popular way to emulate the sounds of many acoustic and electronic instruments. If only there were another way to get a great acoustic piano sound without some of the issues I’ve raised. And it must be said that, as good as sampled instruments have become, they still lack some of the qualities and behaviors that make playing an acoustic instrument such a wonderfully alive and nuanced experience. If there’s a range of the instrument that’s not to your liking, you can’t bring in a technician to adjust the tuning or the hammer characteristics, for example. And in choosing a sampled piano (or other instrument), you’re basing your choice on the tonality and condition of the original instrument that was sampled - after those recordings are made, there’s really no adjusting that basic sound.
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If you want to use the piano in a professional work environment with a lot of other sounds, you may max out your CPU power. First, you need a relatively powerful computer to host these instruments, and large, fast drives. These are all technical explanations of how modern-day sampled-piano software instruments (and some hardware instruments) achieve their stunning levels of reproduction.Īre there downsides to sampling? I’d rather say that there are some things to be aware of. Many sampled pianos use round-robin sample allocation so that repeated notes don’t always trigger the same sample, emulate the string resonance caused when the damper pedal is held down to let unstruck strings vibrate sympathetically, and more.
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It has become commonplace for sampled pianos to record the full decay of all 88 notes at from 8 to 16 different velocity (volume) levels, spooling directly from a hard drive or superfast Solid State Drive (SSD) - audible loops, split points, and sample changes are becoming things of the past. The costs of memory have plummeted, and the advances in sampling technology are delivering us re-creations of the sounds of acoustic pianos that have real depth and nuance.
Those of us who don’t always get to perform on an acoustic piano in great condition - and isn’t that most of us? - or have the ability to cleanly and quietly record our pianos, now have a wide assortment of choices to use on our computer that have never sounded better. It’s a great time to be a performing or recording pianist.
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