| I advocate for real things, and have no problem booking one of the better pianos/rooms if need be... But there are very very good sample libs (Art Vista and Bluthner BDMO) and there is the V-piano and when you have someone singing while they play and you'd like isolation so you can fix and tune their vocal part, a fake piano is a godsend and works well enough to keep in an ensemble situation.
Badly recorded real piano is all too common...as opposed to a well-recorded bad piano...and I'd probably rather have samples in that case.
Well recorded well played well tuned great piano in a lovely room is of course unbeatable and you will (and should) pay more for a week of those sessions than you will for purchasing the entire state of the art of fake pianos. Make sure if there's singing along the player can sing first. |