On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:29:39PM +0100, Cesare Marilungo wrote: > Steve D had previously written: > >No fancy stuff, just a short trifle, a piano piece recorded into Ardour, > >http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/audio/ogg/arabesque1.ogg > This is really nice. Thank you. > > Is it a real piano? Otherwise what have you used? Thank you for the compliment Cesare. It's just a compositional fragment, but I like it and may do more with it someday. ;-) Regarding the piano sound, it comes from some very fine samples I bought on CD from sound engineer and musician William Coakley, the "Perfect Piano Series, Volume V"-- http://williamcoakley.com/ They are the best piano samples I have ever heard, both in hardware form (such as in the ROM of MIDI tone generators or their optional add-on cards), or in software (such as the many piano "plugins" for use on the computer with various MIDI/digital-audio programs (Gigasampler format, "Ivory," etc.) I have a Roland FantomXR single-space rack-mounted MIDI controlled tone generator, and I loaded William Coakley's piano samples (as well as his custom patches for the Fantom/FantomXR) onto the Compact Flash card I have inserted into the FantomXR's front-panel memory-expansion slot. I have tried various synthesized and sampled pianos in the past, and listened critically to various digital-audio demo files of others, and these particular samples of William Coakley sound the best to me. I'm very happy with them. Best wishes, -Steve Doonan, New Mexico, US -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Life does not need to be understood to be enjoyed. An idiot can be as happy as a wise man. ----------------------------------------------------------------
