Simon Williams wrote: > Ketil Thorgersen wrote: >> Do a search on this list and you'll see that this has been discussed >> frequently! > > I've looked but can only find one other thread on the subject which > didn't help me. > >> For piano the best free one I've found is http://www.pianosounds.com/ > > That's got the same problem. It just sounds too tinny. > > I've got a Yamaha YPP-35 at home. I would have thought it's a pretty > cheap digital piano- only 5 octaves, 8 voices and partially weighted > keys (though my parents seem to think it cost over 500 pounds at the > time, which seems slightly mad, but I could be wrong- it was 10-12 years > ago). But it sounds really nice- even the strings work well. All the > sounds are clean and simple- they aren't too muddy in the bass, they > don't resonate, they don't twang if I hit the keys hard, they aren't too > tinny on the higher notes, and the volume is balanced across the > keyboard. Why can't I get this sort of sound out of my laptop? I've been using and loving the Yamaha audio patches for years. Someone else on the list mentioned that a lot of the Yamaha audio sound is due to the licensing of some very sophisticated wave guide audio patents from MIT or some college like that. I suppose you could read the patents and figure it out, but ... > I guess maybe I'm not really looking for soundfonts. I don't really want > samples of real acoustic instruments because recording them is > impossibly difficult and leads to too much background noise. What I need > is to know how to make these sounds up on a synth. I don't mind it > sounding a bit electronic- actually I think I'd prefer it to some > extent. Then all I need to do is find a synth which handles the response > curve sanely and allows me to actually balance the thing across the > keyboard, instead of being too quiet in the bass and getting louder as I > work up. Hmm, that almost sounds like an artifact of listening to audio through laptop speakers. They all make the bass sound too quiet, at least to me. > Maybe I'll end up writing my own. But at the moment I haven't > got the slightest clue how to get the sound I want out of a synth. Yamaha uses samples of real acoustic instruments, plus their wave guide software. I think most synthesizers these days essentially do the same thing. Didn't someone on the list mention an article about how it's impossible to synthesize a true piano sound? -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
