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  • Vienna Imperial: 100 samples MIDI mapping?

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    There are 100 samples per key. How they are mapped in MIDI space?

    1..100 or 27...127 or 1...127 MIDI velocity note-on?
  • PaulP
    VSL Team
    PaulP

    Hello aile, 

    There are up to 100 velocities recorded for each key (the very low and very high keys need less velocities), and Herb has mapped them in a way that sounded the best.

    Best,
    Paul 

    Paul Kopf Product Manager VSL
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    Hello Paul,

    I've tried many pianos software but nobody competes with Vienna Imperial to the tonal richness.

    Yamaha Disklavier uses a     10-bit (1024) MIDI resolution. The technical specifications of Boesendorfer (now Yamaha) http://www.boesendorfer.com/en/ceus-reproducing-system/technical-data  does not explicitly indicate the MIDI resolution but I think it is more than 1024.

    The     Herb sampling  is based on psychoacoustic response of the listener. This means that (up to) 100 samples are a subset of 1024 (or 2048) and are more frequent in the central area, I think.

    Also Vienna Imperial with MIR has a sound so natural     that it seems almost real. The Vienna Imperial reverberations are only a starting point.

    (For better usability perhaps the only aspect to improve is the half-pedal or even better a continuous pedal via DSP. Otherwise you need to use reverberated acoustics to emulate a "eternal half-pedal".)

    Great for classical piano!

    Aile