| a real piano sounds like a real piano, a sampled piano sounds like a sampled piano.
great results can be had, and many listeners will not hear the difference. I know of several high end pop producers who use Ivory. I've used Akoustic Piano for years which is really long in the tooth about now. I've got the Abby Road Keyboard for Reason - which are OK for character.
but - once you sit down at, and record a real piano - the difference is immediate and profound.
I have a beat up, student upright in my house - probably from the 20s/30s - and man - even out of tune it is a million times more expressive and interesting than any sample library, virtual piano, etc.
I never understand these conversations. The real things sounds like/is the real thing. A copy/emulation is a copy/emulation of the real thing.
I'm not against copies and emulations, etc - I use the UAD LA2A, 1176 etc - I use the Waves GBuss Compressor - but I never think for a second that it sounds or behaves exactly like the real thing.
Life is full of compromises - that's OK. It's the denial that is the bigger problem.
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