Chopin Prelude No. 2 - Synthogy Ivory Italian Grand

[mrajczyk]

play no. 13

[bostonmoores]

Hi - I do have 13 recorded, look in my playlist. thanks.

[MrCrgl]

hi, I wanto to know if this pianos load into the ram or play directly from the Hard drive. Because I see Synthogy recommends a 7200 rpm hard drive. can you clarify this ? how big are these pianos when loaded for playing.

[bostonmoores]

@MrCrgl Hi, I don't believe the Synthogy pianos load into memory but rather some sort of direct disk play. I believe similar to what the galaxy pianos use in Kontakt. I could be completely wrong though. I have 4 gig of ram and a 7200 rpm drive - no problems with Synthogy loading.

[MrCrgl]

@bostonmoores playing direct from disk ?? can that be more efficient than playing from ram ?? any latency issues ??

[bostonmoores]

@MrCrgl I would go to their websites just to clarify the Ram/Disk question. One of the main ingredients also is to use a low-level asio sound card and asio drivers to achieve no noticeable latency issues. You can use Asio for all which is a "universal" asio driver that can be used on most soundcards.

[TheLegendTheDream88]

Free download link!!

[cbmtrx]

After all the hype, I'm surprisingly underwhelmed by the sound of this piano. Maybe it's just the recording/music/performance.

[Un1234l]

Hey, I'm wondering what you would have to do in order to minimize the delay between the key being pressed to the sound being outputted.

[bostonmoores]

@Un1234l You need to use a low level asio driver to minimize latency. If you are using a generic sound card that doesn't ship with asio drivers, usually you can get away with a driver set called asio4all.

Thanks

[Un1234l]

@bostonmoores Thanks for the reply.

I'm wondering how the latency is for you? Noticeable? What sound card are you using? and why a low-level ASIO driver?

[bostonmoores]

For this I actually used my on-board sound card, which I believe is just a sigmatel audio chip. I used the asio4all driver. Using the on board sound card and asio4all I had about 10ms of latency - which to my ears isn't really noticeable. You could probably achieve less latency with a good card and its own dedicated asio drivers. Asio drivers bypass the windows sound system so you can have direct access to your sound card. Thanks

[Un1234l]

@bostonmoores I was going to wonder why having ASIA4all would make a difference.

Thanks a lot mate.

[Airvtz]

hey im thinking about buying the Italian grand, it sounds like the real thing :D

[bostonmoores]

I recommend highly. It actually took me some time to get used to the Italian Grand - but once I got used to it, I have a hard time going back to the Ivory Steinway.

[Airvtz]

thanks for the tip i will be getting it soon

:D cheers