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Red-Tide
Red-Tide’s Reviews
It Just Pours Emotion
I've had this sitting in my collection for a while now and I'm not sure why I couldn't fully apreciate it until now, but... my God. The tones on this thing will bring a grown man to tears. It just sounds so raw. It sounds good as is but if you add a convolver it's like you're listening to somebody playing in person in an empty hall, it sounds so convincing, you could easily mistake a song made with this as something that was recorded. This has quickly become one of my favourite pianos to the point that even if I'm using another piano and I want to layer something to give it some edge/tonality this is the first that comes to mind.
I was tempted to give 4 stars for the sound because there's a little noise (not a bad kind of noise like a hiss, it's a beautiful kind of hammer sound with a very subtle crunch) because some might consider that a flaw but personally I like the option of having that and it's a non-issue because not only can it be a desired effect but in this instance it can actually be eq'd out because it doesn't compromise any of the other frequencies which is often not the case. I guess this is where sound and character overlap but for me and my purposes it's perfect and every note has been well recorded and processed.
As far as the GUI goes there's only 3 parameters to play with which doesn't sound like much but I don't use the built in effects that tend to come with these things anyway because you have much more control in your DAW's mixer. The 3 paramters are 'Key Vol', 'Release Vol' and 'Pedal Vol'. I gave it 5 stars because what else do you really need? It's fit for purpose and it looks nice.
Note's start at A1 and go all the way up to C9! Usually I have to clone the VST and tune the copies to different octaves and then bodge them all together which is a pain.The range on this thing is unmatched.
I can't say enough good things about this.
Thank you for making and sharing this, it's such an amazing instrument.