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Old 17th March 2010   #157
Mr.Scarbee
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Originally Posted by elambo View Post
OK, so maybe AK piano was "perfect" for her production, but can you honestly say that you believe that they choose to use the samples because they were better from a production perspective? Can you honestly say that you believe that, had the AK piano not been under development, they'd consider using samples, even if a competitor already had a library which sounded exactly like this one?
They did. One thing is the piano itself - but the preamps and microphones DO change the sound a lot, right? And THAT was the sound she was after.

This is also why you can't compare the sound on video with the sound of the plugin - to me it sounds like piano on video just comes from the mic that she talks to.

Alicia - and her producers would NEVER use the samples on the album- if they had better options - believe me...

Remember it was Alicia and ann Mincielli who started project and got me involved - and later NI. So it was not the other way around.

cheers

Thomas
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