Vienna Imperial: Overview

[Spiratorial]

Dear Santa ..............................­.....

[Spiratorial]

Dear Santa ..............................­.....

[hardmous]

Sounds like Christopher Lambert is narrating this.

[Strandbuggyschaukler]

Hehe,

the Vienna Imperial has 96 Keys :-)

[worldlinerai]

@Strandbuggyschaukler It actually has 97 keys, just like the real Bosendorfer 290 Imperial

[yapyapyapyapyap]

hi ekklesiast, where does it say that they sampled only 50 notes?

[Paramite84]

@yapyapyapyapyap

I asked VSL directly about this. They said, they only sampled whole tones, because they had to decide between 100 velocities with stretches and 50 velocities without them, if they were going to make it work on 32-bit OS. 100 velocities gave them better results, so they decided to do that.

I don't see this as a problem, because you simply can't notice the scretching. Personally I find the incredibly smooth dynamics more important anyways.

[ekklesiast]

Ok, 100 velocities is great.

But why use stretches? Only 50 note samples per 88 keys. And why are you not telling this?

[Paramite84]

@ekklesiast

Where did you get this from? I find it hard to believe they had to do that, considering they had CEUS. It might just as easily be 200 velocity layers, though then they would need something else than midi. Besides, you shouldn't only look at the velocity layers. There's more than one sample per layer, resulting over 1000 samples per key.