The Steinway Piano is a £70,000 + instrument used for (amongst other things) Concert Piano playing. Don't even attempt to create a Steinway on the Yamaha Pro Sampler...it won't happen.

However, with the Sounds I used as explained above (Symphony of voices), the results were very good, and more than satisfying. The Quality of the Samples used may have helped a bit even if the end result was a Monaural 16 bit 44.1 KHz sound. The reason Synth type sounds work better in this way, is that you can do more with them after you sample/load them etc (Delay, attack, release effect/flange/phaser, etc), not very useful for the named instrument in question (Steinway piano) on a keyboard/sampler like this. But with Synth sounds (especially soft attack ones like pads etc) the Yamaha produces very acceptable results, as long as you don't expect “Earth-shattering sounds, so to speak.


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