User-GS-002:
THE ACOUSTIC & ELECTRIC PIANO SET
This is a custom disk made by the author of this web site. It contains
(in the author's opinion) the best acoustic piano and Fender Rhodes samples
ever made for the DSS-1 - even better (I dare say it) than the piano samples
from the original Korg factory disks!
Bank A contains a fully multisampled Yamaha acoustic piano that was sampled
by the website author. Eight notes of a Yamaha grand piano (A1 to A8) were
sampled and transposed across the keyboard, with careful attention paid
to miking and sound input quality, looping and crossfading of the sustained
sound, carefully crafted 6-stage VCF and VCA envelopes to ensure realism
in the decay of each note, and finally, careful tweaking of the velocity
settings to ensure realism in attack velocity. Put simply, this piano sounds
fantastic!
Bank B contains a fully multisampled Fender Rhodes electric piano. This
bank contains the best Rhodes samples you will find for the DSS-1. They
were sampled by the website author and are far superior to anything else
found in the original factory and user banks. Many of the "Dyno-My-Rhodes"
style patches in this bank use the DSS-1's built in digital delay lines
to achieve the chorused effect, making it sound much warmer than if it
were built into the sample.
Play these piano sounds from an 88-key weighted controller MIDI'd to the
DSS-1, and you will like them even more! Better yet, load this disk into
the DSM-1 rackmount sampler and you can more easily take these piano sounds
to gigs and have 16-note polyphony to boot!