Hmm... we need a barman here
or a barwoman (even better)
ok for starters, the streaming thing is not clear for me, but perhaps it will be clear for moon. Do we need to change anything ?
Ostriches? no way, rich people eat oysters with champagne
For pianos, I've come to a conclusion. If you need a real piano sound you'll have to play a real piano (as if we didn't know that...
) Now when using a piano in a mix, as most of us do, you need a piano sound that is easy to EQ in the mix. It doesn't make any sense to use $$$$$ piano vsti and then eq 80% out because it clashes with the rest of the mix.
Another criteria is also using tools that you really know. Getting older, I just hate to, in the middle of the creation of a song, wasting time fiddling with a Vsti because I don't get the sound that I want. Seriously, sometimes after doing this, when I finally achieved my goal, I forgot what I wanted to do in the first place
I've decided to clean up my vsti directory and use only stuff that I know that I need and that I really need.
As for piano, I've purchased GPO used from somebody in Australia, so I got it fairly cheap. I'm pretty happy with the piano in it and use it now as principle vsti. Some other sounds are stunning, the string sections are really good and some windinstruments are stunning. Only backdraw is that you really have to learn it, because it has some specific controls which are not standard.
And now I'll a cofee please
