Hi,
I uploaded the latest stable 2.0 release of each piano and did some webpage update.
These will be the versions I will maintain from now on. The older ones are still downloadable, but only from the Sourceforge page to avoid confusion.
Cheers.
Sofia
Call me crazy, but I like the sustain effect Sforzando generates when I play the 1.0 versions better than the recorded sustain samples of the 2.0 releases.
[deleted] I'm a beginner, and often keep the pedal down when I shouldn't. I too find that the 1.0 versions are easier on me because the resulting sound is less mudded. But if I just play the notes right, the 2.0 pedal down timbre is luscious. Anyway, it's nice that we have a choice.
I'd like to add a section of users recordings to my webpage.
If anyone is interested to contribute some recordings made with my libraries, feel free to contact me at [email protected]
Hi all. For myself, I customized SM_Grand_Piano-2.0 followings.
1) Based on results the loudness per velocity, I generated 127 amp_velcurve_N lines per sample group using MS EXCEL macro. I expect more smoother switching between velocity layers. 2) upper keys without damper. PU only version is avilable(I play it with Pianoteq8 SR effect).
Hello,
I signed up to this forum only to write this post.
A couple of days ago, I was looking up an Italian location on Google and saw a few references to a grand piano.
I got curious, Googled some more, and came across several posts about Sofia_MZ's piano libraries.
Everybody seemed to praise her pianos.
I checked out her webpage and saw the makes and models listed. Not the garden variety instruments a hobbyist would record.
I read her FAQ. I was intrigued. Who was this kid?
I downloaded her libraries and started playing them in the studio.
I've been a sound engineer for over 35 years, and recorded hundreds of classical concerts and solo artists. And I was stunned.
I already told Sofia all this privately, but since this seems to be the forum she interacts the most on, I wanted to share my feelings with you.
The quality, taste, and refinement of her work are stunning.
It would be noteworthy if it were done in a studio setting. But on location and different pianos?
I'm equally impressed by and envious of her talent, and can only wonder what she will achieve in her chosen profession.
Kudos!
Gunther-D I signed up to this forum only to write this post.
Welcome and hope you'll stay for the rest
Gunther-D I've been a sound engineer for over 35 years, and recorded hundreds of classical concerts and solo artists.
Wow, what a pedigree! Do you have anything publicly available somewhere on the 'net just so we can get to know your work?
amc252 VST-Player I'm a beginner, and often keep the pedal down when I shouldn't. I too find that the 1.0 versions are easier on me because the resulting sound is less mudded. But if I just play the notes right, the 2.0 pedal down timbre is luscious. Anyway, it's nice that we have a choice.
This comment makes me think that v2.0 @Sofia_MZ is getting it right. Typical digital (and sometimes sw) pianos try to "make it easy" by having the pedal-down sound be nice even if you never release it. If you do that on an acoustic it becomes mudded. In fact there is some controversy on Beethoven's note on his sonata n.14 "Si deve suonare tutto questo pezzo delicatissimamente e senza sordino", meaning with always the pedal down, which is said by some of being impossible on the modern piano without becoming too mudded, whereas others say that he really intended the sound to be that mudded given the "chasms" of both the first and last movement
RIP This is great Now, when somebody complains that I never lift my feet from the pedal, I can retort that I'm playing 'Beethoven style'.
RIP It is good to have the choice between the two versions, it is a matter of taste. Hmm, I am an advanced pianist, not a beginner, and if I can trust my ears and headphones, the opposite is true about the sustain effect of the two releases. The sustain generated by Sforzando is more noticeable and, thus, more mudded than the samples in the 2.0 versions. So, when I play the 1.0 release I have to be more careful with the pedal than with the 2.0 versions.
[deleted] It is good to have the choice between the two versions, it is a matter of taste.
Quite right. While working on the 2.1 release (yep, how masochist a person can be?) I figured I'd leave the 1.0 version just on Sourceforge. But these posts made me change my mind, and I will include in my webpage links to make them more easily available to those who wish to download them.
The beauty of SFZ, and open source in general, if that it leaves plenty of room for personal preferences and customization.
It is remarkably easy to change the tuning, the timbre, the behavior of the samples, and even to shuffle them any way you like.
I'm talking about the with noise version, I notice it does not sounds noise during pedal up, but sounds during both pedal down. I suppose reason why, sfz containes 4 <master>, but only the last <master> is validated. I guess "#include" is good for this case.
I have the Aria player from Garritan CFX Lite and just found out that I can load and play Sofia's pianos in Aria. I just have to click into "preset" on top, then "load", select "any file type" and search for the sfz file I want to launch, Then I get the velocity map from Aria, and I also have better reverb presets.
Thanks.😊 Always I'm wondering if I should buy Garritan's CFX Lite, a little cheaper ( and lite + upgrade < full ) at pluginfox.com.
Any plan CFX will be added in Sofia's piano 2.1?
zeldalink Not sure what you mean by "adding CFX in Sofia's pianos". You can load CFX in Sforzando since SFZ is a precursor to / simplified version of Aria. But that would not really make sense. You get less functionalities You would want to upgrade not downgrade.
Maybe zelda meant to say "please sample a Yamaha CFX and make it the sixth piano in the Sofia collection" ?
Yes, that's what I wanted to say.
CFX's probably don't hang on trees in Italy. But since there are already fine sampled CFX's out there, why not wish for an Italian Borgato instead?
[deleted] My apologies. I thought I was looking a discussion about reverb and posted.