On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 12:12 +0100, Jeremy Jongepier wrote: > On 12/06/2010 11:49 AM, Julien Claassen wrote: > > Hello Josh! > > I have the sampletekk Rhodes and I'm very happy with it. Of course you > > can listen to demos on their website. My impression: Very warm, but a > > little dificult to get it biting. Still everything's there. But as > > mentioned, if you like to go for it, have a look at their site and see > > when the next sale is on. Should be now or very soon, since christmas is > > always a good time for it. :-) > > Kindly yours > > Julien > > So both Pianoteq and Sampletekk are good to work with? I have some > issues with the Learjeff soundfont as I am a tuning freak. His Rhodes > was either slightly out of tune or a wee bit badly intonated. Or maybe I > can do something about this? Maybe there's something going wrong while > up/downsampling? If you're curious about the Pianoteq Rhodes emulation (or any other part of Pianoteq), just head to the website and grab the demo: http://www.pianoteq.com/try It's a small (25MB or so) download, and it's very easy to get going. Unless you have a total aversion to proprietary software, I think you owe it to yourself to check it out. FWIW, I haven't purchased the Rhodes/Wurlitzer add-on yet, but I've played with it a little and it sounded great to me. I haven't had a need for a Rhodes sound yet, but when I do, it'll almost certainly be the one I go for. Pianoteq itself I can't recommend enough. It sounds great, of course (as good as a sampled piano to my ears), but above all else it feels "alive" beneath your fingers in a way I've never experienced in a sampled piano. It also gives you a range of piano sounds in a scant 30MB or so, rather than one piano sound in a 1-2GB sample library, so it's great for smaller systems like laptops. If you just need a great piano sound from your sequencer, the Salamander and LinuxSampler CVS will do a stellar job, but if you want an instrument to play and feel that'll make you forget that you're just sending MIDI signals from a plastic keyboard, Pianoteq is just brilliant. Thanks Leigh _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
