What is the perfect piano sample?

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Answer #1: The Perfect Piano Practical Answer The one that works for your situation: fits your song/production, inspires you to create, sounds great live, is in the format you need (Logic EXS, Native Instruments Kontakt 5 or stand alone) etc. Every situation is...

What does a piano actually sound like?

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Complex, noisy and plenty of midrange harmonics. Complex… A piano can have upwards of 250 strings (compare that to a guitar that only has six). Every piano has a different frame for the strings that may cross strings, to save space, at different positions. This is...

Tip #1: Get to know your sample library

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#1. Get to know your sample library. Having thousands of sounds and not knowing how any of them sound or work is not very useful or productive. It may take some time for you to become familiar with how your sample libraries sound and respond, but this is time well...