I was in GC a few weeks ago picking up some cables and the guy in pro audio said he couldn't keep Alicia's Keys in stock because he was selling so many boxes for about $99. No, that first part, Bill Evans, playing like him is the harder part. And along the way are a few very talented engineers with good ears. It starts with a piano, then a mic and soon and continuos all the way to a mastering console. If you want that 60's classic jazz recording sound you have to work in the whole string. The best example of the AK sound is listening to her latest album. Http:/ / / product/ Lexicon-MX200-Dual-ReverbEffects-Processor?sku=181014 Http:/ / product_about_tg_12413_limiter_29988.aspxĪnd then there are these hybrid things that look very interesting but I've never played with one. ![]() I'm not recommending this product but as an example of 1,000 products like it. Those engineers in the 60's had a quarter million dlloars of studio gear between that piano and your ears but today you can get the same effect as much of that vintage gear is available as software emulations. You can get that sound for sure with AK and a string of other plug-ins to do the EQ, compression and other tone shaping. You are not hearing the live piano sound. Remember those recordings are recordings and have been through tube based mic preamps, compressors and EQ. Especially if you use it as a plug in inside Logic. If you have heard those records, you can hear what I'm talking about So, in short I will have continuous pedalling with my CP136.Ĭhris, my main sound I want in a piano sample/modeling software pak is a warm, "analog" tone for jazz like you hear on early Bill Evans trio albums and Herbie Hancock's acoustic piano tone with Miles Davis. ![]() There is also a midi filter and this should be able to transform the expression pedal into a sustain pedal without needing alien tools. If you klick the paperroll you see 3 tabs at the left side "Bypass" "Preset" "Edit".Ĭhoose preset->factory->transform->change velocity there. Now you got an easy tool to check the velocity response and characteristic of each key. Set the velocity kurve to "fix" and then you can choose any arbitrary velocity with the adjustment knob. It is most useful because this also works with the onscreen keyboard. This curve also shows the MIDI velocity value that is received and therefore it is useful also for Galaxy users. There are several prebuild scripts available.Īmong them is a MIDI monitor, a MIDI filter and a freeform MIDI velocity curve. Klick on the symbol that looks like an ancient paper roll. There are MIDI tools built into the player. (However I recommend to get the brandnew 4.1. I found this with kontaktplayer 4.1 but I believe that is the same with 4.05. Hi, I think I have a goodie for all these that deal with velocity: The price is reasonable, I think about $90 on-line. Good or bad? Don't know but you get what you asked for, samples of Alicia's Yamaha. The timbre changes as you go up the scale in a way I'm not used to. Mostly this is good but I don't think you'd want this as your only piano sound for classical work. If you want a "generic piano" this sample set is not for you. This C3 really does have it's own unique sound. ![]() One thing I noticed and Alicia says it on the video. It's modeled and sounded to me a bit fake but you can turn it off if you want. Out of the box it had more resonance than I liked. It comes with some presets but I liked it best "dry" some of the effects were adding a ringing kind of artifacts. My opinion is that it's a good sound if you take the time to play around with the settings inside Kontakt. Ans never came close to using any polyphony past about 8. But I did disable the convolution reverb and was playing the "dry" version. I noticed no latency at all while playing Kontack as an AU from inside Logic. This computer had several other NI format piano sample set loaded into Kontakt at the same time as Alicia's Keys. It is a sample set that you can load into either NI's free Kontakt player or use their Kantakt 4 player. It runs well on an older medium powered Mac (2.16 Ghz Dual core, 4GB RAM) According to the specs, it takes 7 GBs of HD space and 1 GB RAM, so it should run fine on any Mac/PC laptop.
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