Has anyone purchased the Steinway D expansion pack (79 Euros) from CMS? The sound heard on the demo video seems to be good. Genos factory piano voices are not great in my opinion.
http://www.cms-sounddesign.de/page4.html
Joe
Actually the genos piano parts are quite good...
But they are from a typical yamaha japanese grand..
They have a different soundcharacteristic then the western piano’s
They are very good to use in a mix however, to cut trough a band or backing
Most western people however prefer the darker sound of Steinways and Bösendorfers and the like
Yamaha recognised this and now added bösendorfer samples to their high end digital piano’s and synth workstations.. however not to the Genos, as i pointed out this is because of their marketing strategy..
The Bösendorfer and Steinways work much better for solo performances or just playing over a drum with a minimalistic backing..
I think we should stop calling the Genos piano sound bad..
Because as a sample comming from a yamaha grand it is quite good.
But it isn’t the typical darker piano sound people in general are looking for
So maybe we can rephrase the statement..”the Genos piano sound is bad”
Into : “i am not a fan of the typical Yamaha Grand piano sound”
And about the CMS Steinway piano, if thats still the same i used in my T5, then its actually quite good.
CMS in general produces high quallity sounds..
They use large samples, which is good, but fills up memmory rathet fast..