My Desert Island Piano VST - VI Labs Modern D

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.”

Pete14 Check your private message. I didn't want to change the topic of threads that quickly… Thanks.

Hey Pete … would you fall in love with this VST if it said "modeled" on the packaging?

MacMacMac Hey Pete … would you fall in love with this VST if it said "modeled" on the packaging?

Is this a trick question?

OlivierW Really cool. I think the warm sound of this instrument is very well when putting against instruments, vocals, ETC. Thanks for sharing! 🙂

Pete14 Is this a trick question?

No, not a trick question.
Rather … it's just that "sampled piano" to you is like a wooden stake to a vampire.