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2016/07/04 17:28:02
Kuusniemi
Just wanted to tease you guys on something I've gotten a chance to tinker with... :)
 

2016/07/04 18:10:54
cclarry
Oh you tease you!!!  
2016/07/04 19:10:35
Fleer
Wavesfactory! Fazioli! Freddie! Jesus!
2016/07/05 08:49:15
rtucker55
Are you able to share any thoughts you have so far?
 
Tonal quality overall?
Balance between registers?
Smoothness between velocity layers?
Variable sustain, Sostenuto, & soft pedals?
 
Anything in general that sticks out? 
2016/07/05 09:04:38
bigcatt
Can we all come over to your place and play it? (Or in my case watch you play it?)
2016/07/05 09:57:17
JonD
Liberace's former penthouse?
2016/07/05 17:08:36
Kuusniemi
rtucker55
Are you able to share any thoughts you have so far?
 
Tonal quality overall?
Balance between registers?
Smoothness between velocity layers?
Variable sustain, Sostenuto, & soft pedals?
 
Anything in general that sticks out? 


After a few days on getting used to it I have to say I'm loving it.
 
The quality is excellent. The velocity range is perfect with soft velocities represented very well. There's a knob that evens out the volume difference between the low and high velocities which I'm liking very much. I do love my pianos played piano.


Five mics in all, 4 rr with neighborhood rr borrowing possibilities. Key and Pedal noise options. There are a couple of neat tricks for enhancing the sound and mic mixing. It has nice sounding Metropolis Plate reverbs though I'll probably not use them since I love putting Eventide Blackhole reverb on pianos (there's nothing better for a piano than Blackhole).
 
The library is pretty big, around 50 gb.
 
Putting together a track (a remake of and old tune with newer sounds) which I'm putting Mercury on. Will post it once I have it finished.
2016/07/05 17:09:21
Kuusniemi
bigcatt
Can we all come over to your place and play it? (Or in my case watch you play it?)


It would be you watching me program a piano since my playing shouldn't be heard without editing... :D
2016/07/05 17:09:47
Kuusniemi
JonD
Liberace's former penthouse?


Oh, much more flamboyant than Liberace... :)
2016/07/05 18:37:10
Kuusniemi
Here we go. I know these should be posted under songs, but this track has been there already and I'll post it here for people to hear the Mercury in context.
 
https://soundcloud.com/tapsa-kuusniemi/skybound-redux
 
On the Mercury I have Ultraclose (with narrowed width), Close and Mono Mics active. The reverb is from Eventide Blackhole, which I always use on pianos and use it as a reference when testing out new pianos.
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