I guess I’ll have to. But I happen to be the kind of piano player who, when appropriate, likes to visit and exploit the dynamic extremes of the instrument, so the absence of fff will be a lingering disappointment.
And I remain of the opinion that it’s a bit of a pity that they didn’t make this fff layer a bona fide fortissimo piano layer that’s integral to the instrument’s expressive abilities. Would have expanded the musical powers of CinePiano considerably. In deciding not to do so, they lowered the ceiling of the instrument’s timbral range. Why? And instead, there’s this almost grotesque, very uneven and inconsistent sounding “ultra fff” layer which, for most of the notes, not only sounds very disconnected from the other dynamics layers, but also has, due to its unevenness, very little use on its own in the context of convincing piano emulation.
I just don’t get the thinking behind the decision, that’s all.
And the reason I might seem disproportionately frustrated about this, is because, amidst the unpleasant harpsichordish noises, that fff layer also contains a handful of excellent fff samples. (A rare thing in sampled pianos.) It’s those samples that make me think: if only the entire fff layer had samples of that quality and character, this would have a been an outstanding sampled Steinway.
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