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funkychickendance · Post by **funkychickendance** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:30 pm

Cordelia wrote:I do wish someone would create a VSTi with some more interesting pianos. An old upright (as in Faces- Ooh La La) for instance, instead of grands and baby grands.

Wusik.com has three very nice uprights in its HQ collection. For a beautiful 'shaky' sounding piano, try 'upright & locked' -- it's in the demos -- for Rhino2 by Daniel Maurer, BnB3 collection.

/funxi

Cordelia · Post by **Cordelia** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:36 pm

Wow- Thanks for all the "upright" information everybody! Many leads to follow...

learjeff · Post by **learjeff** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:43 pm

Beautiful! I sure hope it's affordable.

I really like the non-static sound. One of the things that bugs me most about all the hardware digital pianos I've heard is the static sound, once they hit their loops. It sounds artificial and bugs me to no end.

Yet in real pianos, I have always loved it when they're perfectly tuned, so that notes are very very stable, clear, and clean. Almost like the digitals, but they just take the principle way too far. This piano VST hits the nail on the head.

Also, it has the bell-like clarity of tone that I like in big Yamaha pianos (C3, C7). And of course the dynamics are striking in this piece. You definitely were inspired.

If they can sell this at a price point well under the big gig pianos like Ivory, they can count me as a customer!

Centro · Post by **Centro** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:47 pm

All I can say: ......

Tea · Post by **Tea** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:38 am

james0tucson wrote:
Tea wrote:The demo sounds great, but will the new module have a tack piano preset?
Do you literally mean a prepared piano with tacks in the hammers?
Are you trying to get a gig where you wear a red&white striped shirt and a straw hat, or what?

Indeed I do mean tacks in the hammers! Not a detuned piano, as there are loads of them, but one that has that marvelous sound that Brian Wilson used to get on a number of Beach Boys records.

Maybe one day...

james0tucson · Post by **james0tucson** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:41 am

Tea wrote: Maybe one day...

Maybe Zvon wants to do another prep piano.

loophead · Post by **loophead** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:52 am

james0tucson wrote:Do you literally mean a prepared piano with tacks in the hammers?
Are you trying to get a gig where you wear a red&white striped shirt and a straw hat, or what?

Yeah man ever heard of Glenn Gould ?

learjeff · Post by **learjeff** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:16 pm

The thumbtacked piano is, I think, an attempt to imitate the "honkey tonk" tone that was actually caused by pianos so overplayed and undermaintained that the felt had worn off the hammers (or flattened into a hard mass).

I once played a very old piano that had a lever that caused the hammers to rotate to metal-tipped hammers. Nifty idea, but the normal tone and action suffered.

james0tucson · Post by **james0tucson** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:36 pm

learjeff wrote:The thumbtacked piano is, I think, an attempt to imitate the "honkey tonk" tone that was actually caused by pianos so overplayed and undermaintained that the felt had worn off the hammers (or flattened into a hard mass).

I once played a very old piano that had a lever that caused the hammers to rotate to metal-tipped hammers. Nifty idea, but the normal tone and action suffered.

I doubt that a piano vst that's trying to sound like a concert grand is going to lean much toward novelty tones like thumbtack...

learjeff · Post by **learjeff** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:29 pm

ltcat2004 · Post by **ltcat2004** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:25 pm

Sorry but, with all this words,what is your vst name, where is link download this vst piano... for trying

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:27 pm

ltcat2004 wrote:Sorry but, with all this words,what is your vst name, where is link download this vst piano... for trying

it's not out yet.
should be very, very soon.

egarrard · Post by **egarrard** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:33 pm

alex zonder wrote:Right. A Grand is above all a solo instrument for the exceptionally gifted players. It works well in specific setups such as a jazz combo, but in most music / mixes it would be a totally misplaced sound.

Oh, really? Even listened to country music or anything that was recorded in Nashville? There's a grand in every studio I've been in there and it usually winds up on the album somewhere. It's all in how you mic and eq it as to how it sits in the mix.

Pig would be shocked that all his work was for naught...

You can hear his playing on a lot of different styles of music.

learjeff · Post by **learjeff** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:13 pm

Yeah, egarrard, I agree with you.

I'm no 'exceptionally gifted player'! I pretty much have a Paul McCartney style, left hand bass, right hand chords, stuff like that. Just about every pro player in my area can play circles around me (I'm an amateur). But I still greatly prefer the dynamics, tone, and expressiveness of a grand over a upright for general use. However, I do like an upright for specific projects, like honkey-tonk. For Jerry Lee Lewis treble banging, either kind can be just great.

I see the grand piano as the all-around instrument, and the upright as more of a special-purpose piano.

I play blues, rock, country, and a little jazz. (I'd play a lot of jazz, if only I could.)

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:41 pm

I don't know how good you play, but your 'Rhodes'-3 is fantastic!

New Quality Piano VSTi