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  • J
    J

    Any updates on this?   Waiting patiently!
  • J
    J
    Wow, looks and sounds great. I guess octave shifts and transposition will be your friends in reaching those extra keys.
  • T
    T
    any word on the release date?! does this play nicely with ProTools 8? Thanks! Joel
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    @jaysplace101_29469 said:

    Any updates on this?   Waiting patiently!

    Waiting impatiently...
  • H
    H

    We have a first great demo by Jay Bacal which I will set online tomorrow.

    And if everything works smooth with replication we could start shipping in ca. 2 weeks.

    best

    Herb
  • J
    J

    Let us know when the demo is up.  Can't wait to hear it.

    j
  • H
    H

    Demo is up, Etude in C# by Alexander Skrjabin.

    http://vsl.co.at/de/67/702/704/414.htm

    Bravo Jay! [Y] 
  • J
    J

    Great demo, great instrument !![Y]
  • O
    O

    Sounds great!!!, I agree.

    Sorry if I missed that:

    Will Imperial load easily in Ensemble PRO/(3) on a slave PC (64bit) and stream over ethernet to my G5 like the other Instruments?

    Best Oliver
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    VSL Team
    cmC

    that's one of the ideas ;-) Vienna Imperial is not like the usual Vienna Instruments Libraries, but working as plugin within VE PRO

    christian

    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
  • G
    G

    Wow Jay! It's beyond me how someone who doesn't play the piano is able to give so much realism to a performance. I think you must of been a pianist in a former life.... And of course your great musicality gave the Vienna Imperial what it needed: a nice range of dynamics with all the emotion around it.
  • J
    J

    Really sounds great.  Sounds like the real thing.  I'll need to hear a demo with the other "perspectives" to seal the deal for me as that's what I would be using most often.  This demo sounds like the "distant" setting, correct?  If you could post the same Etude with the "close" and "player" perspective, that would help a lot.  

    Thanks,

    j
  • J
    J

    Amazing to me:  this piano (the etude) sounds NOTHING like the first demo you posted earlier in the thread.  Is it just the different perspective that's making it sound different?  
  • H
    H

     Right, it's the distant mike position.

    Jay has sent me now also a close mike rendering, I'll add this version to the Download Tutorial.

    best

    Herb
  • F
    F

    Great, looking forward to hearing that version.
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    @jaysplace101_29469 said:

    Amazing to me:  this piano (the etude) sounds NOTHING like the first demo you posted earlier in the thread.  Is it just the different perspective that's making it sound different?  
     

    Right, the three different mike setups offer three different piano sounds each with an unique charcteristic.

    And of course also the different reverbs offer a different sound.

    best

    Herb
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    JBacalJ

     Thanks Guy.   I have loved, played and studied the piano off and on my whole life.  I have even played this Scriabin piece on a real piano in real time for my very forgiving wife and cats.  But alas my pianistic skills is the real world remain rather meager.   This virtual performance owes a debt to one of my favorite pianists of all time-- Vladimir Horowitz.   I tried to capture some of his style, his wonderful sense of rhythmic freedom, his sensitivity to the balancing of voices and his amazing variety of tonal colors.   Of course there is no substitute for the real genius of Horowitz.   But I enjoyed trying to get as close as I could.

    Herb,  I don't know if it would be possible to make the close-microphone version a separate link or button.  This might make it easier for people to find.  Just a thought.

    Finally, I want to say that this new Vienna Imperial Piano is an amazing instrument and a quantum leap improvement over VSL's previously excellent piano sampling projects.   Definitely worth serious consideration!

    Best,

    Jay
  • W
    W

    Jay, superb work.  You have a wonderful sense of this piece.  I've played it myself and I'm very fond of your interpretation here.  Excellent job.
  • J
    J

    Okay, now we're REALLY talking!  The close miked rendering sounds amazing to me.... much more suitable for the kind of work I do.  Wow.  You should definitely provide a separate "open" button for this rendering.  I wasn't thoroughly impressed until I heard this.
  • O
    O

    Wonderful!  Great job Jay, and of course, great job VSL!  This is really stunning so far.  Look forward to more demos.

    Herb, the closed miked version is clipping for some reason.  There is distortion in several spots.  Not sure if someone can verify that they are experiencing the same thing.  Perhaps it happened during the rendering.

    O