emusonacid!

Hi all,

I bought a used e6400 Classic (128MB, EOS 4.62) recently
with the intention of using it in our church worship band,
in conjunction with a weighted Roland A-80 MIDI controller.
The P55 Sound Canvas that was provided with the A-80
sounds thin and congested, so I'm looking for a piano sound
that would work well in two contexts:

1. In the band (contemporary, somewhat rocky Christian
worship), and

2. Solo stuff during the quieter moments in the service.

To give you an idea: Yamaha's P200 sounds would probably
work well; so you can see I'm looking for a stage piano
rather than, say, a Steinway with room ambience, if you
see what I mean.

I'm currently using a Roland A-70 as a sound module,
but I've had enough of lugging it out every service and
laying it on the floor; hence the purchase of the Emulator.
The theory is: buy the hardware once, and then I can
try lots of piano sounds until I find the golden one.

Budget is limited, of course.

I've downloaded a number of half-decent piano soundfont
files, and converted them with ChickenSys Translator,
with moderate success, though there's usually something
wrong with them after translation, and I haven't yet got
to grips with the Emulator enough to fix 'em.

So, I'm looking for recommendations (and deals )
for piano sound CDs in EOS or Akai A3000 formats.

Anyone got recommendations? CDs they might want to sell?

Thanks!

Dan

I like this one: http://www.northstarsamples.com/GrandGoldEIII.html - you'd probably find the 'lite version' more than adequate.

Thanks. I've emailed them for an MP3.

Still looking for other pointers and deals out there, though.

bosendorfer?

I have some of these and I like them,

Describe "stage piano" -- I have a lot of piano
sounds in EOS but not sure what you are targeting.

valcoun wrote:bosendorfer?

I have some of these and I like them,

Describe "stage piano" -- I have a lot of piano
sounds in EOS but not sure what you are targeting.

Thanks - yes, I'm still looking. I recently bought EastWest's
Steinway Grand, but I'm still trying to figure out how to
use it across the keyboard, since it's an Akai format CD and
loads as 5 separate patches, one for each part of the keyboard;
and the A-80 I'm using at church only allows four zones, so
I'm a zone short. That piano might do the trick, but until
I can get it working across the whole keyboard, I can't
test it in its target context.

I guess what I'm looking for is something with enough
body to make it in a mix with a live contemporary worship
band. For example, I bought a Kurzweil Micro-Ensemble 1,
which has wonderful pianos, but they've got no body, and
disappeared totally in the mix.

It's also got to have enough character to be good to listen
to when I'm doing solo piano stuff in a worship context.
Most pianos with too small a memory footprint can sound
pretty characterless.

The opposite extreme would be a Gigapiano, but (a) I
don't have a license to run in on a computer at church,
(b) I'm worried about latency when playing live, and
(c) it has too *much* character. :-)

Also, something that's not really clangy at the top end.

Dan

Basically I acquired a pre-owned Ultra with a HDD that had a lot of banks and presets already loaded on it - and some of the emu CD-ROMS and the eSynth ROM (backed up on the HDD as well)

There are a lot of piano sounds in all those banks, maybe something you can use - anyhow, most of these samples are not thin or tinny they are pretty full sounding - and as for high end you should be able to adjust those parameters to taste with the Z-filters?

Sorry I dont know as much about the hardware/software as I would like to -- can you instruct on how to save some of these sounds to a media I can send to you? If I throw enough of them your way something is bound to work for you - but lets make sure I dont send any dups.

PM me with details if you like!

I have (had) the prosamples version of the steinway grand. I think you can load each patch and then merge them together into one patch that covers the whole keyboard. I just got an emu again (yesterday, actually), so I can't remember exactly how I did it, but it's possible within the Emu. I know that I never had to mess with zones to play it.