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But what's the point of making piano patches that sound realistic, except as a tour de force? It's sort of a "Pierre Menard, author of Quixote" sort of thing.

• ruined 2y ago
  >what's the point of making piano patches that sound realistic, except as a tour de force? pianos are enjoyable, but expensive and very heavy
  • lloeki 2y ago
    And noisy. VS plug a headset in and stop being interrupted by irate neighbours annoyed by your enthusiastic musical expression, while still enjoying "real piano" dynamics. (or waking the kid that you just put to bed in the adjacent room and finally it's that me-time of the day)
  • nine_k 2y ago
    Patches / parameter sets / whatever else you call the way to describe it are way more compact and should be much less expensive, shouldn't they? I honestly would expect a competent (if not exquisite) grand piano to be among presets in a good synthesizer.
• coldtea 2y ago
  >But what's the point of making piano patches that sound realistic, except as a tour de force? It's sort of a "Pierre Menard, author of Quixote" sort of thing. Because via modelling (not necessarily FM-based) they can be made more realistic or more expressive than pre-recorded samples (see Pianotte or SWAM for examples). Also you can then make the piano tonal characteristics as you want them (instead of confined to a fixed real piano's sound).
  • nine_k 2y ago
    This is true, but this likely has to be done once, by the manufacturer? Or maybe several times, in search of perfection. But likely it's not what every musician is expected to do. Also, doing this should still be easier than building your own physical grand piano :)
• vunderba 2y ago
  yeah I don't know how about making one personally, but physical modeling (particularly Pianoteq) is near best-in-class if you want a highly realistic piano sound that you can then tweak to your personal preference over something more traditional like a Sampler lib such as Kontakt's The Gentleman.