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One day they can play instruments too which will be nice Nothing beats a physical instrument producing sound by strumming or piano hammers striking or wood hit
by dmix 2y ago
One day they can play instruments too which will be nice
Nothing beats a physical instrument producing sound by strumming or piano hammers striking or wood hitting drums combined with the natural reverberations of the room. Much effort has been put into "physically" emulating it in software already which of course is only ever going to be 99% of the way.
- Animats 2y agoThat was done long ago. See "Orchestron", "American Photoplayer", and "Mills Violano Virtuoso".
- dmix 2y agoThat is not the same at all. Those are very mechanical and boring. Using human instruments with refined and subtlety random velocity and reacting real-time to whats being played is what's interesting IMO.
- Animats 2y agoAh, you want a reproducing piano. That's the really good variant of a player piano, where the expression is encoded along with the notes. They're rare; few have survived, and they were high maintenance. Here's a good one, playing back a performance by Sergei Prokofiev.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uMRD2o6dJo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uMRD2o6dJo