![]() I am going to connect the RD2000 and give it a test with that more advanced keybed and hammer action today. I did the testing on an Oxygen 88 weighted action keyboard so it is a simple 2 contact keybed setup. The have a round robin setup that makes it seem to have more character and the samples are bold compared to Ivory. It is miked very close and the samples are very dry with hardly any room sound in them. ![]() Instead of the 20Gbytes it weighed in at 29 Gbytes for the Grand and 32 Gbytes for the upright. ![]() It is also a larger library than advertised once installed. With Pianoverse at 256 samples it settles down to about 22% at idle ranging up to 45% when playing At the 256 setting it works well and is no issue. On a 2.9 Ghz I7 4 core running 128 sample buffer it uses 40% resources at idle and ranges up to 75% when playing normally with the occasional spike when you change velocity and note choices quickly (likely my streaming isn’t keeping up). It is about twice as resource hungry as Ivory and has some spiking issues on my rig at 128 samples on a Baby Face Pro interface. OK, I did the first session yesterday on one of my gig rigs. The demo videos also showed that loading a piano can take a bit, kind of like UVI workstation does with the AS and Ravenscroft libraries. I have been lucky with IK (Tonex, B-3X, IK Leslie, iRig) so I think I might take the plunge on one of the pianos to see if the claims are true. The only thing that ticks me off a bit is that they claim it’s more playable than other products like Pianoteq and some sampled instruments out there but as you all point out you can’t test their claim. Also this product is like a Acoustic Samples set in that there are some other non sample related tricks added into the mix. 20 GBytes would be a big reduction in my case for the library size. For what I see offered that is a great price, On the sampled instrument aspect of it I have been running a 50 Gbyte library with Ivory’s Steinway D for years and use other sampled instruments all the time. Also when you build up jam points you can apply them to the intro price so in this case you could grab a piano for 70 bucks after your jam points were included. I get the arguments but in my case IK has offered “no demo” products before on introducing them and I bought when the price was low and won big.
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