My pianos *DEBUNKED*

Too bad that things move this fast and neither I nor @CyberGene had time to try the instruments.

I did not miss the fact that our own CG lives in a city called Sofia, and that @Sofia_MZ spoke a slightly too good English (and with the right British accent which the very rare native-Italian good-English speakers have, which I often exploit for embarrassing them when I speak about my pants, having them misunderstanding those for underpants, but I digress....)
She also spoke great Roman slang, even if it had slight grammatical mispells (it's "sdrumata" not "sdrumada" as she wrote), but all of them were reasonable mistakes that some real native speakers make.
So in the end, I definitely fell in the trap, despite my thought of "holy crap, what a pedigree of instruments can she access and sample!" -- also the names of the instruments, their locations, everything very credible even for somebody who lived (or visited relatives) in many of those places! Congratulations!!!

Everything seems very carefully done, including preventing archive.org from crawling https://luciphercode.wixsite.com/sofia-mz so that now https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://luciphercode.wixsite.com/sofia-mz is a 404 and the website is really gone for real.

Very interesting to watch this unfold (in accelerated motion since I typically don't have time follow the forum on business days).

@CyberGene can you rename the thread? The title respects only the first message or perhaps two, and everything else should be instead titled "Debunked!" -- I think it's okay to leave the thread as is (no need to split, IMHO) but do change the title please?

RIP I did not miss the fact that our own CG lives in a city called Sofia, and that @Sofia_MZ spoke a slightly too good English…..

Hmm, interesting……🤔

Sure, Pete.
And CyberGene is the walrus. 😀

Hey, it was Del Vento who made the ‘observation’!

I also think there is some personal touch here with the Italian thing, since I’ve posted on multiple occasions about how much I love Italy and the Italian culture and products 🙂

….and the plot thickens….🧐

I think it was CyberGene all along! 🤣

I feel so…. violated!

I could have tainted myself with Pianoteq!

Its beginning to look a lot like CG has been a Pianoteq agent all along, his dislike for Pianoteq always being a ploy in preparation for the attack on sampling. 😁

Or maybe I’m a double agent who had been hired by Pianoteq to act the hater that would later experience a “revelation”, but was then hired by Garritan to keep on hating and got carried away 😉

CyberGene Or maybe I’m a double agent who had been hired by Pianoteq to act the hater that would later experience a “revelation”, but was then hired by Garritan to keep on hating and got carried away 😉

CyberGene the PTQ hater, lover, hater………

CyberGene hired by Garritan

See this is where I know you can't be an agent because Garritan does not have the $$$ to pay you 😆

Jokes aside, I’m wondering if those who came up with that hoax really wanted me to bite the hook? Whether they somehow personally targeted me in a way. I would have loved to but the truth is I’ve been rather busy lately. We’re going through some uncertainty in the office due to being acquired by another company that is laying off people (and doesn’t allow working from home, so I have to be at the office 8 hours Mon-Fri), then I try to spend more time with my family, I also switched more towards synths, DAW and modern pop/rock music for a side/friend/jam project and so I’ve neglected a bit my acoustic and classical interests. I’m not sure if I have even one full hour at the N1X a week and definitely have no time for virtual pianos, I just use the onboard CFX for whatever little time I have there. And I spend my geeky spare time to improve this forum rather than argue about Pianoteq. And frankly, I’ve even forgotten about Pianoteq lately 😀 So, it’s the wrong timing for Sofia’s creators if they wanted to target me personally… Sorry 😏

I told my take on PTQ before that I think it is a good product and I use it. But I don't think it is the best VSTi piano to record solo work. I still am holding out hope that Modarrt make a leap forward and I shall keep supporting them with the upgrades as I like the company and the upgrade pricing model is very fair IMHO.

ORGANTEQ has got my love at the moment when I have some time to play with my musical toys.

Peace CyberGene and hope everything works out well for you at work.

CyberGene I’m wondering if those who came up with that hoax really wanted me to bite the hook?

I doubt that it was personal. As I recall, it was released on PW first, and then onto PC second, where the community here took up the conversation with more spirit.

dore_m Yes, I had the dubious honour of inviting "Sofia" over here, after "her" initial launch at PW.

CyberGene Whether they somehow personally targeted me in a way

That seems highly unlikely.

RIP I did not miss the fact that our own CG lives in a city called Sofia

oh...

It was released on Linuxmusicians, October 20th, 5 days prior to PW, October 25th:
LinuxMusicians My Sampled Pianos

PW My Free Piano Libraries

Holy crap the lies.... about the robot: "The critical part was the ball bearing in the pivot with Torlon plastic balls which made the operation smooth and quiet."

As a mechanical engineer myself, it was all plausible. I perceive that the most difficult part of a sampling robot is the calibration at low velocity for each setup, requiring extreme fixture stability as well as force repeatability. Bearings are the problem????

Hi, can someone show some love and please give a quick recap about all of this, the thread has 200 posts.