My Desert Island Piano VST - VI Labs Modern D

I’ve been listening to the demos of this library and it does indeed sound wonderful!

I’ve been looking to get something that’s a step up from Pianoteq Pro (+ all addons) and NI Noire. Up to this point I’ve been considering the Garritan CFX and Ivory 3 but this one possibly sounds another step up from those.

Can anyone comment on the self noise when using multiple mics? NI Noire has the lowest noise floor of any piano library that I’ve tried but doesn’t offer additional mic perspectives and Pianoteq is naturally noise free being a modelled product!

I’ve tried the VSL pianos and those all had quite a high noise floor when holding soft piano chords!

pianow That was confusing, sorry!

What I meant was that as of now, sympathetic resonances will sound when the pedal is not pressed and you're only sustaining a few keys. But they won't sound when the susdain pedal is pressed. That's why when you lift the sustain pedal while still holding down the key, there will be no sympathetic resonance. And that was the bug. If they added the SR even when pedal is pressed, they are afraid it might cause CPU problems, so they took it away.

Does that make sense now? Hopefully.

dickiefunk I've played with 2 mics and the noise wasn't very loud. I haven't tried 3 mics because my CPU would glitch when playing busy passages. I would recommend it.

David Lai

How would you compare the noise floor and cpu useage to the Garritan CFX, Ivory 3 and VSL pianos?

What cpu are you using? I wouldn’t expect cpu glitches when using three mic perspectives!? I had this issue with Embertones Walker Concert D and it stopped me from using it in the end. I don’t want a repeat of this with the Modern D library!

David Lai That was confusing, sorry!

What I meant was that as of now, sympathetic resonances will sound when the pedal is not pressed and you're only sustaining a few keys. But they won't sound when the susdain pedal is pressed. That's why when you lift the sustain pedal while still holding down the key, there will be no sympathetic resonance. And that was the bug. If they added the SR even when pedal is pressed, they are afraid it might cause CPU problems, so they took it away.

Does that make sense now? Hopefully.

Perhaps I should’ve mentioned that Pianow is a bit on the slow side (you know what I’m saying?), so you might need to dumb-it down for him, and forget about metaphors, figure of speech, and/or similes, for these go right over his simple head; so, if you say, “the pot calling the kettle black,” he would ask, “but why would the pot call the kettle black?”

Surely, I will get a beating from him after this, but then again, he’s ignoring me, so I assume he’ll never read this. 😆

Pete14 Perhaps I should’ve mentioned that Pianow is a bit on the slow side (you know what I’m saying?), so you might need to dumb-it down for him, and forget about metaphors, figure of speech, and/or similes, for these go right over his simple head; so, if you say, “the pot calling the kettle black,” he would ask, “but why would the pot call the kettle black?”

Surely, I will get a beating from him after this, but then again, he’s ignoring me, so he’ll never read this. 😆

He's OK, Pete. English is both mine and his second language, so I guess both of us may have problems understanding sometimes. And that's all I wish to say about it. I don't need to "dumb it down" for him.

dickiefunk Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1185G7 @ 3.00GHz 1.80 GHz

It's at least 3 years old, so I don't know. But I've had glitches doing 3 microphones, plus reverb and EQ. But 2 microphones is great. Well, I also have polyphonies all setting to max, so there's that.

David Lai

oh i get it now, thanks, so thankfully the sympathetic and sustain resonances are still there

I’m right here, Pianow, why are you ignoring me? 😁

pianow Yes, just the time when one is triggered is different.

David Lai

This seems like a “decent” performance to computing-resources ratio, and yes, the fact that they kept it at 18GB is also a good thing…..

Pete14 I agree. Lossless FLAC compression, open source and saves on space.

David Lai

i appreciate your time buddy, it's nice to meet actual living decent people😄

dickiefunk How would you compare the noise floor and cpu useage to the Garritan CFX, Ivory 3 and VSL pianos?

cpu wise, the ivory is just so heavy on most machines, with vsl if you use less mics it'll be quite reasonable, but the garritan is very nice in that regard.

about the noise floor, the garritan is the worst here, there's always some hissing in the samples especially in the lower velocities, older vsl pianos have some background noise although they're not quite extreme like garittan but 3 bosendorfers and 2 Faziolis from vsl have next to no noise floor, the ivory is decent enough i never noticed a thing with it

Another Demo inside a mix :

improvisation on Schindler 's List Youtube video

schindler.wav

Regards,

Olivier

David Lai

seems like a cpu intensive plugin to me, but no problem😄
i think the demos are quite clean and noise free, but a little noise floor isn't really unexpected with a multi mic sampled piano.

pianow I haven't read the requirements, but I believe my laptop can still work with it, so I didn't care too much.

It seems like we’ve discussed the Modern D to the point of repeating ourselves, so, if I may be allowed a brief observation:

Could it be, that Pianow and Sofia are one and the same?

I have a suspicion that ‘his’ seemingly endless curiosity & interest about all things VST comes from the same place that Sofia’s endless cross-country trips to sample the next “exotic” acoustic piano came…..

What gives?

I remember that Sofia, 20 years of age, posted incessantly, and oddly enough, so does this so-called “Pianow!”

Pete14 Interesting.

David Lai Interesting.

So it seems like I’m not alone here, for David finds my observation “interesting.”