Originally Posted By: floyd jane
Originally Posted By: MarioD
Note you can get the identical results at home as you can on these demos:

Pedal Steel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWjRTeIO2fg
http://www.wavelore.com/products.php?product=WLPS



Mario - like you, I'm not trying to "start a war"... but.. those pedal steel examples sound like ... good MIDI representations of pedal steel, not like a real pedal steel. It - and a good fiddle solo - are still the things that I have never heard "done right" via MIDI.

Your sax/wind controller stuff - EXCELLENT - as good as real... some things can be done - you've proved that...

respectfully,
floyd


btw... in fact... it was the never-ending search for "how do I get pedal steel and fiddle (that sounds "real") in my songs at home" that lead me to BIAB 3 years ago. End of search.


I echo Floyd's comments. The end of my search was BB. Once I heard the steel guitar it was mission accomplished.

I have yet to find any VST that replicates certain instruments properly. Fiddle and Steel are just 2 that I deal with in my music. Horns are also notoriously hard to replicate with midi. There are several sample packs now that do articulate the horns better. Guitar synths are also coming along nicely.

However, to this point in time, BiaB and RB are the only products on the market that do fiddle and steel properly.

I had a song of mine posted in the cakewalk forum. It had a fiddle fill or perhaps a solo in it... I don't recall which song it was. But, a guy who ran a studio for a living, and is a highly respected contributor in the CW forums commented on the song regarding the fiddle solo. His comment was, "Man, that sounds so real I can hear the rosin on the bow and the strings"...... you can not get that kind of sound with a fiddle VST using midi I don't care how long you set and program the midi note control parameters.

On the wavelore steel VST..... it sounds like a bad midi piano that lets you bend the notes.

4 years ago I had this discussion: http://forum.cakewalk.com/Pedal-Steel-Guitar-Synth-m2356828.aspx

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