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praecox

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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:08 am Post subject: how to make piano sounds? Subject description: need advice

could anyone advice me a synhesis tips to make a piano sounds using Nord Lead 2? thnx jp

Wout Blommers

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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:21 am Post subject:

My advice is to read this statement:

Rob Hordkijk in his tutorial at http://www.xs4all.nl/~rhordijk/G2Pages/ wrote:

Sound imitation
In the music industry there is a commercial need for convincing electronic imitations of real world acoustic musical instruments. When in a recording studio a string section has to be recorded, it is much cheaper to use an electronic instrument than to hire a couple of musicians for a few days. Since the early seventies studio’s tried to use VCO-VCF-VCA model synthesizers to replace real musicians. This led to a common but false believe that the main purpose of these synthesizers is to imitate existing instruments. In fact, imitation is their weakest point. It is a much healthier approach to see a synthesizer as an instrument by itself, with its own musical right of existence and use it as such. In the eighties samplers replaced the original VCO-VCF-VCA model synthesizers in the studio, as when using the right set of samples, samplers are much more convincing in imitating acoustic instruments. Just think about digital pianos, these are in fact preprogrammed samplers with in general several samples for every single key. For recording purposes these digital pianos do perform very well. Still, samplers lack the kind of dynamic timbral control that the VCO-VCF-VCA model synthesizers have. So, when it is about imitating acoustic instruments, samplers have the realism in the timbre, but lack the dynamics. In contrast, the VCO-VCF-VCA model has the dynamics, but in general lacks realism in the timbre of imitated acoustic instruments.

The piano isn’t the most easiest one, but I include the factory preset of the Wurli, so you can tweak this electric piano sound. Note the Filter and FilterTracking are important. Also it would be better to try it in Performance mode.

Success,

Wout

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