@ Spalding

How big is the Steinway set on it's own?

@ Diki

I've never had a power outage in all the years I've gigged (either as a drummer (!) in my originals band, or as a Keyboardist) so I'm not sure of the value of a UPS.

Oh great! Now that I've said THAT you know what's gonna happen at my very next gig!!




[This message has been edited by hellboy44 (edited 06-24-2007).]

Many years ago we were playing in a 'summer bar' in Rockaway NY ... One night before we started playing the power went out ... it was still out at the time we were supposed to start playing ... the owner came over and said "I don't care if you all play electric instruments , start playing so I can start charging caberet prices !!! ....
t.

fwiw, i reckon that steinway sample was pretty crappy..a real "wannabe" sound, but having said that, it IS much better than the original korg piano...just my view, and no correspondence will be entered into
dennis

Not really sure Hellboy but Reuben from the korg forum says its about 11mb of ram so still plently left for your drum loops. All i can say Hellboy is that that Steinway was my "go to piano" of choice for the last 10 months since i found it and i choose it even over and above the grandtouchx piano that came with the last great upgrade.

Find it and play it yourself and make up your own mind.

ps here is the link to the instructions to load just that sample !!http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=23424&start=0



[This message has been edited by spalding4 (edited 06-25-2007).]

Sounds good.


Thanks for your help!

One thing you can do to maximize the number of loops you can load is to convert them to mono (especially if you run a mono PA). Now you can load twice as much! And then try converting them to a lower sample rate (if the Korg supports 32KHz, for instance) and you get back maybe 25% more room. Live, it's hard to tell 32KHz from 44.1KHz...

Hmmmm - I know where you're coming from Diki (you're obviously more resourceful than I am!), however I run in Stereo always (I'm a big believer in it) so using a full loop I would want stereo for percussive elements(panning), and Quality (even Live).

I guess I could use individual hits as a mono sample (a Kick sound for example).

Actually, I'd be happy to get by with just a few mono Kick samples at first to use within a Midi (Heavy "Club" Kick, Delayed Kick, Heavily gated kick etc etc).

If I could get away with THAT, then that would be a nice little memory saver - thanks for the idea!!