3) The placement of the mic(s) during the recording.
2) The equipment used to capture the sound. 1) The acoustic piano used to record the sound and the condition of the instrument. The ultimate sound you get depends on many factors: Well, there are still a lot of things that manufacturers do differently. So if the process is roughly the same for all manufacturers, why don’t all digital pianos sound the same? In a professional recording studio with a perfectly tuned acoustic piano (a grand piano in many cases), manufacturers record each note played at different volumes using multiple high-fidelity microphones. When it comes to major brands, the recording process usually looks like this… In recent years, technology has become so sophisticated that high-end digital pianos provide sound that’s almost indistinguishable from a real piano. The higher the quality of the samples and technologies used to create (or record) them, the more realistic and accurate the sound will be. Usually, samples are recorded at different velocity levels (multi-samples) to naturally respond to the way you play the keys (from the softest pianissimo to the loudest fortissimo). This article will focus on acoustic piano samples. It is widely used for guitars, strings, organs, electric pianos, drums, flutes, strings, and many other musical instruments. Sampling is not limited to acoustic pianos. In this article, we’ll focus on samples used to reproduce the sound of musical instruments. For example, a five-second bass guitar riff from a funk song can be a sample. 
Samples can also be excerpts from recorded songs. What are Samples?Ī sample is a small audio recording of a musical instrument’s sound, or of any other sound (ocean waves, sirens, wind, etc.). To reproduce the sound of an acoustic piano and other musical instruments, digital pianos use samples. When you press a key, the attached hammer strikes the corresponding string(s), which vibrates and makes a sound.ĭigital pianos don’t have strings and hammers are used only to add weight to the keys and to recreate the mechanical movement found in the traditional instrument. Strings, hammers, and keys are the elements that produce the sound in an acoustic piano. When it comes to digital pianos, the main challenge engineers face is to reproduce two things accurately: the sound and the feel of an acoustic piano.īoth tasks are very difficult because there’s too much going on inside this amazing musical instrument. You may wonder: “How do digital pianos work?”
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