good piano & strings for A1?

[criss]

Hello,

Anybody knows two good programs for A1 for playing cover-songs with my band:
1. a good piano-like or electric piano program;
2. a program to play (as close as possible) classic strings (chords)?

Best regards,
cristian

[pablomastodon]

Hi Criss,

As I recall Kroffe has recently posted some electric piano program(s) for A1, or was it Marlowes? A search should pull this up.

However, you should brace yourself for some level of disappointment. The A1 does some things really well, but pianos and classic strings are not going to be high on that list.

Bless,

Pablo

[S h a w]

Pablo is right... but if you're looking for synth style EP or a synth string pad, I bet you could pull it together with a couple of performances. Good enough to work in a live band situation for sure. But if you're looking for realism... better get a ROMpler.

Cheers!

[criss]

Thank you both! I'm not looking for realism (because I know it's not possible in this case) but I would be happy to know your opinion regarding the "best" programs available to "emulate" (close as possible) an EP or "classical-synth-strings". Momentary I have installed the original programs and the two Kroffe bundle programs. I already found some nice B3 programs.

[kroffe]

Glad to hear you like my sounds.
Here's a compilation of some piano programs I made (some not released before).

kroffe pianos.zip

NLA1 piano programs

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[criss]

Thank you very much, Kroffe! My preferred is your "DirtTines" prg.

[duplabe]

Hi guys,

could someone of you post some demos about these patches for members who doesn't have an A1? I really love to hear it

Thanks,
Balazs

[ljefe]

Here's a piano performance patch based on kroffe's clavinet. If you engage slot D there is a simple string accompaniment. The low register doesn't sound great, this patch could use some improvements. I'll keep at it. Anyone want to make it better? It would be great to create the ultimate A1 piano patch.

[duplabe]

Hej!

Here they are:

• NLA1 Kroffe Cheese.mp3

• NLA1 Kroffe Clavinet CA.mp3

• NLA1 Kroffe Clavinet Cb.mp3

• NLA1 Kroffe Dirt Tines.mp3

• NLA1 Kroffe DynaNord.mp3

• NLA1 Kroffe Elec Grand.mp3

• NLA1 Kroffe Upright.mp3

And:

• NL4 Kroffe Elec Grand.mp3

• NL4 Kroffe FM Piano.mp3

• NLA1 Marlowes Wurly.mp3

• NLA1 Marlowes Tines.mp3

/Vänligen
Michael in Scania

[kroffe]

Haha, great Marlowes!
But I must say that the two Clavinet sounds are not supposed to be played that way.
They are modeled after the Clavinet sound in the Nord Electro 4 and if I remember correctly should sound about similar.

I should get some time to make some proper mp3s on how I have intended them to be played.