25 Jan 11
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Originally posted by SunburntI wish I had a piano, I use a Kurzweil keyboard, it's a nice one, PC1X, 88 weighted keys, has nice piano sound built in plus a few dozen others, it is not strictly a synth but a great MIDI controller, touch sensitive with aftertouch. I found a great set of piano software online at a place called imperfectsamples.com
Never but someone seems rather interested. 😉
Go to that site and give them a listen, the samples are up to 36 gigabytes! Too much for my elderly computer. I upgraded my music studio comp to play Kontakt 3, which has a few nice piano samples, nothing like imperfectsamples though. When I used my first studio machine on Kontakt, the comp froze up, was way too slow but upgraded comp handled it a lot better but still froze occasionally. It seemed too unreliable to try to play a whole piece on and especially if you had to do a real gig live. So went back to the native piano built in to the kurzweil and it sounds pretty good anyway. If I ever get a comp that has super power like a modern games box with 12 or so gigs of ram I will go for imperfectsamples.com samples but I know my present comp can't handle it, it just barely handles Kontakt 3 piano's now. I compose folkie kind of melodies on keyboard, guitar, mandolin, dulcimer and 5 string banjo.
Here is a link to one of the imperfectsample demo's. You have to use some host software like Kontakt 3 or a few others to host these samples:
http://www.imperfectsamples.com/website/audio/schimmelupright/schimmeldemo.mp3
26 Jan 11
Originally posted by sonhouseWhy don't you have another beer?
I wish I had a piano, I use a Kurzweil keyboard, it's a nice one, PC1X, 88 weighted keys, has nice piano sound built in plus a few dozen others, it is not strictly a synth but a great MIDI controller, touch sensitive with aftertouch. I found a great set of piano software online at a place called imperfectsamples.com
Go to that site and give them a listen ...[text shortened]... e samples:
http://www.imperfectsamples.com/website/audio/schimmelupright/schimmeldemo.mp3
26 Jan 11
Originally posted by sonhouseNice! I used to play, but gave up after my piano became imposible to keep tuned! I got lesons for the kids, then they lost interest. Now my youngest one picked up the guitar and is becoming good at it. One of his high schol freshman buddies is specializing in piano and is an excellent player. They jam together and actually make more than noise! I love music! Can you post samples of yourself playing? One of the most enjoyable music I've heard is a kid'd audition DVD to Vandy School of Music for the piano .
I wish I had a piano, I use a Kurzweil keyboard, it's a nice one, PC1X, 88 weighted keys, has nice piano sound built in plus a few dozen others, it is not strictly a synth but a great MIDI controller, touch sensitive with aftertouch. I found a great set of piano software online at a place called imperfectsamples.com
Go to that site and give them a listen ...[text shortened]... e samples:
http://www.imperfectsamples.com/website/audio/schimmelupright/schimmeldemo.mp3
