Latency and playing live

[joyride]

I'm following the discussion on latency and as a piano player I wonder how this will affect my live playing. Before I buy a Receptor I'd like to hear what other musicians have experienced.

[philosorhymes]

Upon all the discussions of latency, DFD and such, I have never made any significant adjustments to my kontakt, I regularly use the Steinway D Light and its fine for me. I find the differences between the big piano libraries are more appreciated in a studio environment, finer nuasances often don't matter as much on stage so long as it plays and is stable and steinway d light from kontakt is fine for me! (Ooops carful not to keep your foot on the sustain pedal too long!! It will cut out, but it has never happened to me live).

[Kermit Jagger]

I believe your only real option is to get Ivory which is said (I don't have it - yet!) to be working very well on Receptor. Otherwise, a bank in Kontakt that will be under 2Gb to it can be loaded in RAM.

If your Receptor were to be used as a single source for piano sounds, then you won't have any problem with latency.

[thesoundsmith]

steinway d light from kontakt is fine for me! (Ooops carful not to keep your foot on the sustain pedal too long!! It will cut out, but it has never happened to me live).

I use the Collossus Steinway B for my primary live piano, it's the warmest one I've been able to find. MUST have DFD on or it will not load with my regular other plugs (B4, MinimoguevA, FM7, MrRay 22.) But it sounds great, plays good - there is a tiny bit of latency, but it is consistent and very minor, easy to compensate, after a couple minutes you most likely will not notice it.

But EVERY piano I have tried on Receptor - JABB, EWQLSO, Art Vista virtaul Grand,Colossus - all suffer from the 'hold sustain down and it just drops out) syndrome. Altering the number of reserved voices and buffers helps, but for some, I could never find a happy medium - enough voices, not enough RAM. Colossus works best for me in that regard as well, I have had very few times where it has cut out on me (and of course, if it does, releasing the sustain pedal brings it right back, but it's still a poor algorithm for dropping notes, hardware synths do it much better, This is an NI and EQ issue, BTW, not Receptor (except 4G of RAM would help, probably...)