Gambold wrote:I gotta ask - what's going on with the file size bloat?
It's always nice to have an XL option for those who are committed to that piano, but the dramatic increase of the lower files sizes for the newer pianos hurts users of older Nords, who just don't have the room.
Most of the classic Uprights have L files in the 60-70 MB range. Now the Amber has clocked in at 99.8 MB for it's L. That's a rather considerable jump over the Black or the Queen, and given that the features of the L sample haven't changed (type of string resonance, etc), does anyone have any idea why this is?
Just in general, not counting features like string resonance which as you point out is handled separately via the different versions, you can achieve better samples by (a) sampling more notes (i.e. doing less stretching from adjacent notes), and/or (b) sampling notes for greater lengths (i.e. having more of the full original attack before having to resort to a loop) and/or (c) sampling at more different velocities (to better capture the actual dynamics of the original piano). All of these things increase file sizes, but generally provide better sounding results. Since these files are larger than comparable older files, it is likely they contain more and/or longer samples.
If you don't like it better than something you already have, the size is not an issue. If you do like it better than something you already have, consider that it's greater file size might be one of the things that is making it sound better. And you don't have to go with the large version. While it's nice to have the best of everything, it's very possible that a small (no string resonance) version of a piano with more/longer samples would sound better than a smaller sample set with the string resonance. IOW, it's possible that the Small version of Amber sounds better overall than if they had made a smaller Large version with less sample data.
Mobile
Donate