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From: Michael Fanning on 13 Apr 2010 20:08 Quantum Leap Pianos that is. Last week I took advantage of the two for the price of one sale at SoundsOnline and bought QL Pianos and StormDrum2. It's been taking me several days to install the 35 dual-layer DVDs: 10 disks each for the Bechstein and Bosendorfer, 8 for the Steinway, and 5 for the Yamaha. Each disk takes about 30-40 minutes to copy. I still have the Bosendorfer to install but so far the piano sounds I've played are awesome! SD2 has some pretty cool percussion sounds. I watched X-Men Origins last night and I recognized a percussion sound as one I had heard from playing with SD2. Danny Elfman used SD2 for Terminator Salvation. I might just rent it just to hear what he did with it even though I hear the movie kind of sucked. Now that I have it maybe I can land a soundtrack gig on the next blockbuster. I wonder if by now the SD2 sounds are too recognizable. I guess it's all in what you do with it. The 2fer sale runs a couple more days until April 15. Anyway, I'm done for the year on gear purchases. -- MICHAEL FANNING, http://www.soundclick.com/michaelfanning
From: polymod on 14 Apr 2010 11:44 "Glennbo" <vdrumsYourHeadFromYourAss(a)cox.net> wrote in message news:Xns9D5A58B28F7C7BrownShoesDontMakeIt(a)188.40.43.213... > The killer robot "Michael Fanning" <mfanning1(a)cox.net> grabbed the controls > of the spaceship cakewalk.audio and pressed these buttons... > > > It's been taking me several days to install the 35 dual-layer DVDs > > That's too damn big!!! Hehe, one of my favorite pianos is a 6.4mb > soundfont that's a sample of a sample. ;) I'm sure it sounds great in your music, but I probably wouldn't want to perform a classical piece with it ;) I've always been curious on those pianos with the HUGE library. Hey Michael....when you get it all up and running can we hear what this thing sounds like? Poly
From: polymod on 14 Apr 2010 11:56 "polymod" <polymod(a)optonline.net> wrote in message news:4bc5e329$0$22522$607ed4bc(a)cv.net... > > "Glennbo" <vdrumsYourHeadFromYourAss(a)cox.net> wrote in message > news:Xns9D5A58B28F7C7BrownShoesDontMakeIt(a)188.40.43.213... > > The killer robot "Michael Fanning" <mfanning1(a)cox.net> grabbed the > controls > > of the spaceship cakewalk.audio and pressed these buttons... > > > > > It's been taking me several days to install the 35 dual-layer DVDs > > > > That's too damn big!!! Hehe, one of my favorite pianos is a 6.4mb > > soundfont that's a sample of a sample. ;) > > I'm sure it sounds great in your music, but I probably wouldn't want to > perform a classical piece with it ;) As with all my piano samples too ;) Poly
From: polymod on 14 Apr 2010 13:30 "Glennbo" <vdrumsYourHeadFromYourAss(a)cox.net> wrote in message news:Xns9D5A6F5F442B5BrownShoesDontMakeIt(a)188.40.43.213... > The killer robot "polymod" <polymod(a)optonline.net> grabbed the controls of > the spaceship cakewalk.audio and pressed these buttons... > > >> That's too damn big!!! Hehe, one of my favorite pianos is a 6.4mb > >> soundfont that's a sample of a sample. ;) > > > > I'm sure it sounds great in your music, but I probably wouldn't want to > > perform a classical piece with it ;) > > That piano by itself is *not* impressive sounding. What *is* impressive > about it, is that it plays nice with other instruments in a mix. Something > most of my biggest piano samples don't do as well. I was so disappointed > when I got Giga Piano, because I thought "a whole gig of samples has got to > sound great", but it never sat well in a mix with other instruments IMO. I hear ya. That's why I think these huge pianos are meant for solo recording. When it's mixed in with other stuff, all the nuances get lost. Poly
From: kitekrazy on 14 Apr 2010 16:56
On 4/13/2010 7:08 PM, Michael Fanning wrote: > Quantum Leap Pianos that is. Last week I took advantage of the two for > the price of one sale at SoundsOnline and bought QL Pianos and > StormDrum2. It's been taking me several days to install the 35 > dual-layer DVDs: 10 disks each for the Bechstein and Bosendorfer, 8 for > the Steinway, and 5 for the Yamaha. Each disk takes about 30-40 minutes > to copy. I still have the Bosendorfer to install but so far the piano > sounds I've played are awesome! > After reading how long it takes to install that library on their forums, I crossed that off my potential buy list. |