That's why after testing true pianos product I became a fan of Physical Modeling. I tested EIC Pianos abd for me they lack expression and playability. Much better than any sampled Piano I've ever heard and used. I think that True Pianos for 135 Euros, sounds great, In theory modelling should be the way to go for these instruments but controlling all the parameters in a realistic way in real time using a keyboard and some knobs is a big problem. So much depends on the playing technique. I think the reason that guitars are hard to model is similar to the reason that solo brass instruments are hard to model. If I can't tweak it like a moog I don't want it! give me miniMogue VA (freeware for PC) any day. I just received a promo email for the new IK SampleMoog instrument, but to be honest I can't see the point of it. When it comes to subtractive analogue style synths the CPU trade off is less because most of the quality problems are to do with anti aliasing and oversampling which are also issues for sample based instruments. I tried the piano tech demo and while the bottom end and the high notes were very good the middle register (arguably the most important) sounded very artificial to my ears. Physical modeled pianos still don't quite cut it for me though. hence all the draft versions and lite versions of sounds in the ableton library. Add a realistic string section and a decent guitar sample and you are having serious memory management problems. While it's true that physical modelling synths tend to be rather CPU hungry the other side of the coin is that sample based synths use more memory.Ī realistic sounding sampled grand piano will set you back around 500 MB. I've had trouble making my case about this in the past, but now there's even no point anymore. I'm running hundreds of instruments in my set and find the whole scenario of people running out of headroom after 4 tracks pretty laughable.
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Not to mention the upcoming quad/octo-cores.Īnd i know how to manage my sets.
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Maybe my old G5 cant handle it, but an Intel mac will nearly double my power.
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Stick to zebra.Īnd i'm looking forward to an update to ABL Pro/ASM which is still one of the meanest modular soft synths i have.Ībout CPU consumption, like i said. We can have this conversation about every add-on, but if you don't need them. If we all liked the same stuff, there wouldn't be more then 2 different FM synths AND uses far less CPU in the process.Ĭertainly for those looking to use Live, erm, *live*, I think that choosing less CPU intensive alternatives would be sensible. I think that stuff like Albino 3, Zebra, etc completely blows UA away by comparisson. The trade off is of course you need a pile more memory for big sample collections.įor analogue synths, nice though Ultra analog is. But if you want real sounds, samples are still the way to go imho. Perhaps it's because PM synthesis is still relatively in its infancy. That's the main point for me though - I don't think that the AAS stuff offers better quality at all. Quality is always going to go at the cost of performance. If you can live with the quality of lower CPU soft synths. I thought that the Piano was the hardest instrument to model that way.ĭo I have to eat my words about Physical Modeling or am I a victim of my own criticism?
How can it be that PianoTeq and True Pianos are able to model a real acoustic instrument with complex sounds like an Acoustic Piano and AAS 'fails' to model a credible Nylon Guitar or Acoustic steel? My concerns about physical modeling are the following: Truepianos sounds really good for Pop Rock Jazz. PianoTeq is so close to reality that might get boring (who wants to record Pedal squeaky sounds anyway?) good for purists and classical music.ĥ. Strings Studio fails to come even close to a real acoustic steel or Nylon guitar (my 1997 Hardware Alesis Nanosynth sounds closer to reality and almost beats IK Multimedia)Ĥ. Ultra Analog is warm and has good oscillators close to real HW synthsģ.
Lounge Lizard is capable of making Electric Pianos similar to real onesĢ.
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First of all I base this on the demos you can download from AAS website and Pianoteq & Truepianos website as well as Ik Multimedia SampleTank ( I own a Windows version with Omnisynth expansion pack)Īfter extensive testing (of demos) I came to the following conclusions:ġ.
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