Originally Posted By: Rustyspoon#
JJJ,
Toontrack is a fun program. It is useful. It is a bit overpriced in my opinion for what it is. As far as their actual "instruments" I would pick any piano from Komplete base version or ones included in Halion factory over theirs. But I understand it is a matter of taste. We will talk about it later smile

John, here is a video on how to get MIDI block Chords out of BIAB (2 ways). The last few seconds, you will not hear Strummed Accoustics as DAW is in ASIO mode so did not record the sound to video.




Thanks Rustyspoon! I went through your steps and got the chord blocks exported from BIAB and imported into my DAW! I appreciate you teaching me something new! I hope I can remember those steps. smile

Yeah, I'd agree you can sink a lot of money into Toontracks stuff for sure!

Just as a test for myself, tonight I generated a MIDI piano piece and put it on 4 tracks. Then I assigned EZ Keys Grand Piano to track #1, NI New York Concert Grand to track #2, NI The Grandeur to track #3 and NI Kontakt Factory Library Concert Grand to track #4.

Next I spent about 30 minutes listening to these 4 tracks trying to A-B them and detect qualitative differences. While there were certainly minor differences I personally could not point to one or the other as a "better" grand piano! They all sounded superb. And that was raw without any f/x or processing of any kind. Furthermore, this was a direct comparison of single instruments which, to me, would indicate that in a mix any differences would be mostly undetectable.