![]() So I don't think my playing is the culprit here. In case you think I have bad techniques, I really don't think so! I'm classically trained (through private lessons) pianist and I had been playing on my upright piano for 10 years before I moved countries and needed to rely on a digital piano. I have tried that, but I found the way the piano VSTs respond doesn't feel as real as how the digital piano responses. The only thing that I think might help a lot is to actually monitor my performance by listening to the piano VST live, instead of listening to the sound from the digital piano. The only piano library that does okay in terms of velocities is the stock Logic Steinway, but it doesn't sound the best in terms of tones, and I do need to put a MIDI compressor to kind of flatten the dynamics of my playing. I have had this problem with all the piano libraries I have tried, which include NI Berlin Concert Grand, NI The Giant, Spitfire Concert Grand, and Spitfire Felt Piano. ![]() I have also tried increasing and decreasing all the MIDI notes as a whole to see if there's a sweet spot I could hit, but that didn't help either. I have tried altering the velocity curves to all kinds of shapes and it never solve the problem. The result is that, although these two notes are played with similar velocities, they sound drastically different. For example, the the velocity layer "medium soft" could be for notes with 80-99 velocities, and the velocity layer "medium hard" could be for notes with 100-115 velocities. Sometimes, two notes that have similar velocities, like 99 and 102, would sound drastically different because they happen to fall into the end of one velocity layer and the start of another velocity layer, respectively. The soft notes are too soft, and the loud notes are too loud. The velocities sound nothing like how I played. However, whenever I try to record the MIDI of a performance from the digital piano and sample it through a piano VST, the results always sound awful in terms of the velocities. Really cheap stuff I know, but it sounds (in headphones) and feels realistic to me, at least compared to my upright. Hi! I'm a pianist who practices at home with a Casio CDP-130. ![]() I want lots of velocity layers (very deep sampling), half-pedaling, and really good velocity response. TL DR - I'm a classical pianist who mainly plays Bach, and I'm looking for a piano sample library that will respond as close to a real piano as possible for practicing on a digital piano.
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