On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:32:23PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > >I don't need 20 pianos, I also need > > strings, pads, hard synths, Atmo-FX and the lot. > given that pianoteq is using physical modelling, its hard to see how > their technology could be applied to hard synths, pads or atmo-fx.
That's why Steinberg's Hypersonic2 is a hybrid: it has a sample ROM, it has the usual synthesizer stuff (VCO+LFO) for the hard leads and a FX section, an arpeggiator plus some more to combine everything. I don't expect Pianoteq to be anything else than a piano, but this doesn't change the point that there's no allround virtual instrument on Linux that's suitable for the average pop producer or live keyboardist playing in a Top40 band. (that's exactly what the microX does: it delivers a wide variety of decent sounds ready to be used for straight-forward tasks) I guess the hardest part of making such a Motif/Triton/Phantom clone is getting some nice samples, which won't probably happen for free. I could sample an acoustic guitar, but I can't record a whole orchestra. ;) Cheerio -- mail: a...@thur.de http://adi.thur.de PGP/GPG: key via keyserver _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev