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  • VSL: Please implement 2sus in Synchron Pianos

    Dear VSL:

    The Vienna Imperial has the 2sus feature. I think it is one of the most amazing things about it.

    When playing a real piano, two very important things happen:

    1) You normally press the sustain pedal AFTER you play a chord or some specific notes as you move through different harmonies.
    2) The sound of the notes you are playing change dramatically as soon as you press the sustain pedal. It immediatly produce different harmonics and make the sound big, wide.

    That is very well achieved in the Vienna Imperial with the 2sus feature when enabled. You can play a chord without sustain and then press the sustain pedal, and you can immediatly hear the change in the sound, pretty much like a real piano.

    However, this doesn't work like that in Synchron Pianos. It's very frustrating and dissapointing, after having played the Vienna Imperial for years, to lose that amazing feature that injects realism like no other competitor.

    In Synchron Pianos, if you play a chord and then press the sustain pedal, there is no change at all in the sound. It sounds completely different to how it sounds when you first press the sustain pedal and then play the chord.

    At the same time, if you first press the sustain pedal, then play a chord, and then release the sustain pedal without releasing the notes in the keyboard, you don't hear any change, like you should in a real piano, where it goes from wide/huge sound to simple/dry sound. In contrast, that works perfectly well too in the Vienna Imperial with the 2sus feature enabled.

    Please, please implement 2sus in Synchron Pianos. It was one of the most amazing things in the Vienna Imperial and it should exist in Syncrhon Pianos as well.

    Thanks in advance,

    Francisco


  • Hello Francisco, 

    Thanks for your mail!

    I agree, that's a great feature and it works with rather dry samples like in the Vienna Imperial. 

    With multiple room mics and the sound of a big scoring stage like the Synchron Stage, it's impossible to add that feature... 

    Sorry to have no better news there. 

    Best, 
    Paul


    Paul Kopf Product Manager VSL
  • Hi Paul,

    Thanks for the reply!

    I understand what you are saying. Though, there are close mics in Synchron Pianos and there are samples in them for both sustained and non-sustained notes. It's only an automated transition between those samples. I don't think it would be impossible to implement, at least for the close mics only. Am I wrong?

    Best regards,

    Francisco


  • Hello Francisco, 

    I won't say you are wrong, but I'm repeating what our developers have been telling me, and it makes sense to me. 

    Best, 
    Paul


    Paul Kopf Product Manager VSL
  • Hi Paul,

    Is this true for the Stage B pianos as well?

    Thanks,
    Michael


  • Hi,

    Yes. We have also captured the room mics there. 

    Multi-mic recordings are a completely different situation in general. 

    Best, 
    Paul


    Paul Kopf Product Manager VSL