Production Voices Production Grand 2 Platinum KONTAKT

I listened to the audio demos, my only issue with wavefactory mercury is, the sustain notes fall off rather quickly. Im not familiar with the piano they sampled, maybe that is how this particular real piano model works.

One of the major issues with piano libraries for me is, people dont know how to mic them. If I am hearing mechanical noise (ie. the thumping sound of the hammers striking the strings), most notable in the higher notes in most libraries, that is a huge turn-off.

I am a pianist, Im familiar with the Yamaha C7 and Steinway D models, as well as the Bosendorfer pianos and the major thing I can tell you about these 3 model pianos over other sampled pianos is the frequency response and the amount of time a string will produce sound after striking a note is staggering. On any of these pianos, when striking a note, the string will produce audible sound for upwards of 45 seconds to a minute, Add to that string and body resonance aiding in the creation of many harmonic tones, these elements are very difficult to capture. Most speaker systems arent able to reproduce them. Most microphone cant even pick all of them up. However, stand next to a pianist playing a C7 or D class and you will hear them. These libraries are getting closer, but still arent there yet.

The only piano library I have is the Hans Zimmer library, not because its particularly good, but because it was decent. To my ears, Vienna's newly released Steinway D and Yamaha C7 are amazingly detailed. Are they perfect? No. However, they are very detailed. I havent listened to the production voices library yet, will listen later. The Hammersmith library that was touted as being one of the best, suffers from hammer noise, so, no thanks.