GSi Just Piano app - what does it sound like?

[ElmerJFudd]

 

 

 

What’s it feel like to play with a controller?   Do they offer a velocity curve editor like the Pianoteq?  
 

 

[mate stubb]

From the GSI web page:

 

"User defined Velocity Curves"

[drawback]

Do I have to assume the tuning (or lack of it) of the Steinway was intentional? I guess for some it sounds more real, but it's sure not for me.

 

PS, where's the app with the modelled Rhodes that GSI nailed in the Seven/Seventeen? That, I'd buy!!

[ElmerJFudd]

44 minutes ago, drawback said:

Do I have to assume the tuning (or lack of it) of the Steinway was intentional? I guess for some it sounds more real, but it's sure not for me.

 

PS, where's the app with the modelled Rhodes that GSI nailed in the Seven/Seventeen? That, I'd buy!!

My guess is they sampled that piano and clipped the samples for the player software.  No post recording session tuning of the samples. 

[Baldwin Funster]

55 minutes ago, drawback said:

Do I have to assume the tuning (or lack of it) of the Steinway was intentional? I guess for some it sounds more real, but it's sure not for me.

 

PS, where's the app with the modelled Rhodes that GSI nailed in the Seven/Seventeen? That, I'd buy!!

If you can run 32bit vsts, you can find Mr RayII and Mr Tramp probably free in a corner of webtown somewhere.

[drawback]

2 hours ago, ElmerJFudd said:

My guess is they sampled that piano and clipped the samples for the player software.  No post recording session tuning of the samples. 

I don't think that would explain the unisons. Note the F# above middle C, one of the most obvious. Seems to me the piano they sampled was out of tune.

 

1 hour ago, Baldwin Funster said:

If you can run 32bit vsts, you can find Mr RayII and Mr Tramp probably free in a corner of webtown somewhere.

Sorry, I meant an app for iOS.

[Delaware Dave]

i have three pianos loaded into my Gemini module, the Yamaha C5, the CFX and the Steinway D274.  The truest sounding piano of them is the Steinway and when I'm playing piano centric music like Billy Joel and Elton John I use the Steinway.  For other rock music I use the C5 as it fits better in the R&R world, i.e. it's brighter than the Steinway.  I absolutely find nothing wrong with the Steinway, perhaps there is an issue with its integration into the Just Piano app. 

[hrestov]

They have also sampled a Bechstein and the sample came out a week ago. 
It’s a great thing that they give you also the new samples that they make. 
 

And also a felt upright u1. 
 

This is all the pianos:

- Cfx

- Steinway model D

- yamaha C5 grand 

- grand C1

- grand C1 open 

- Bechstein 

- upright U1 felt

 

in the app justpiano you can load only one sample at a time.  In the app genuine sound module you can load what you want. 

[Baldwin Funster]

Some of the samples are Ginormous and take a couple hours to download. 

[hrestov]

The samples are from 1 to 3 giga. It depends from the connection. I don’t think hours, but 20-30 minutes. 
but the idea of the app is not to change the sample every time, but to keep the same sample in.

 

for me Cfx is the best. I have it in the iPad. Try the Bechstein in iPhones, I prefer the Cfx. 

[AnotherScott]

I don't like the attack on any of the demos I've heard. Like so many DPs, I find it exaggerated relative to the quick falloff, seeming kind of "plunky" in that respect. My theory is that this comes from miking very close to the hammers (someplace no person's ear ever is).

[hrestov]

I’m not an expert of placing mics. 
but these are the photos when they sampled the Cfx. 
Link photos

[ElmerJFudd]

35 minutes ago, AnotherScott said:

I don't like the attack on any of the demos I've heard. Like so many DPs, I find it exaggerated relative to the quick falloff, seeming kind of "plunky" in that respect. My theory is that this comes from miking very close to the hammers (someplace no person's ear ever is).

I wonder how close to the attack samples were clipped.  
 

It’s also nice when developers offer multiple mic positions.