Re:A new type of piano keyboard: The Seaboard
by baddox on Sunday March 10, 2013 @07:17AM
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> It should be noted that computer synthesis (procedural or sampled) of keyboard-based is very convincing. They same cannot be said for any other instrument.
I agree that keyboard instruments are the most convincing, and certainly the easiest virtual instruments to play (since playing a digital piano is the same as playing an acoustic piano), but there are some pretty expressive and convincing virtual instruments out there:
Re:A new type of piano keyboard: The Seaboard
by TylerE on Sunday March 10, 2013 @01:10PM
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Those are samplers, not synthesizers. (Yes, technically they are synths, but not what's usually meant by the term.) They're just many many GB of samples of real musicians playing real instruments.
I agree that keyboard instruments are the most convincing, and certainly the easiest virtual instruments to play (since playing a digital piano is the same as playing an acoustic piano), but there are some pretty expressive and convincing virtual instruments out there:
Bass guitar (acoustic and electric): http://www.spectrasonics.net/products/trilian-audio.php
Drums: http://www.toontrack.com/products.asp?item=30
Acoustic guitar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q...
Electric guitar: http://www.vir2.com/instruments/electri6ity
Orchestra (perhaps not the best solo instruments, but pretty great results for a whole symphony): http://www.vsl.co.at/en/67/702/703/413.htm and http://www.soundsonline.com/Symphonic-Orchestra and http://www.garritan.com/products/personal-orchestra-4/
And, just to mention it, the best piano virtual instrument I've heard so far: http://www.synthogy.com/demos/grandpiano.html