Question: what do i get if i am to buy the standard version if i have vienna Imperial.. besides the tone ofthe actual physical piano (bosendorfer vs yamaha).. and i dont mean the statistics, but in actual playability.
I also own the Vienna Imperial, which I thought was a very good instrument in its time. I predict, though, if you get the Synchron Pianos CFX, you probably won't be using the Imperial all that much anymore.
To me, the Synchron Pianos CFX just seems a lot more playable. Pedaling and note release are just a lot better.
I would think there's a lot of technology going on under the hood of this instrument, and a lot of it is proprietary. On the VSL page describing this instrument, they describe some of it. I'm not expecting them to explain thing in depth, though, because they probably don't want to give away their trade secrets.
But, this paragraph from the instrument description on their site explains why the releases feel good. They went through a LOT of effort to raise the bar on this aspect of the way a sampled piano engine works. Not sure if any other developer is doing this sort of thing to this degree...
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Advanced Release Sample Technology
Capturing the notes with all the velocities and especially at various tone lengths with their subtle nuances is a major challenge in the art of piano sampling – and it’s particularly tricky when recording the instrument with the ambience of a scoring stage. This is where Vienna’s new Release Sample Technology comes in. The team developed a unique, proprietary technique that automatically matches up to 300 individual and finely grained release samples
per key to your played notes. The result is a hyper-realistic playing feel and 100% timbral authenticity."