On 2 Aug 2005 at 18:07, Williams, Jim wrote: > ...but I ask the people who are listening to the GPO Steinway: Are you > listening to the raw, dry sample? If so you are giving GPO short > Schrift. > > GPO's philosophy is to sample instruments dry (I know this from > personal experience) and let the user process it. > > In fact, full GPO used to have a "wet audition" set of instruments so > users could hear what the instruments sound like. It was canned > because people tried to USE it in performance and their CPUs got > chewed up due to the reverb on every instrument. > > So if you are listening to the dry GPO Steinway, run it through a good > reverb.
I'm only going by the demos on the Garritan site, not on playing it on my PC (my PC couldn't play it if I had it). And the problem is not that the sample is *dry*, it's that it has a deadness to the overall attack, which in a real piano is a sign of needing to have the hammers revoiced. In a recording, it can mean that the microphone is too close to the hammers, so that you're hearing too much of the actual impact of the hammer on the string, and not enough of the actual vibration of the string itself. As to reverb, I find the overuse of it in all kinds of music to be *very* annoying. I have this problem with movie scores and with lots of recorde music. I know perfectly well that adding reverb is a great way to cover up a multitude of inadequacies in the basic performance, whether live or synthesized. And the resulting sound lacks clarity and that bothers me a lot. The ring and resonance should be in the original sound -- it can't really be added on after the fact. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
