I removed all reverb and other effects (including EQ) from the instruments so that - as much as possible - you only hear the sound of the piano samples. In addition, I also selected an extract from the end of the first improvisation (“ Scared“) and let it play against each of the four libraries. This is intended as a simple way of isolating the sample sets through a large portion of the keyboard (without playing every single pitch and velocity which would be a nightmare to listen to). The velocity (speed of striking the key) ranged from 12 to 127 (on a scale of 127). Even geekier stuff…įor each piano library, I created a series of each octave (7 different pitches) of “D” across the standard 88-keys of a piano. These four all are touted as meticulous recordings of fine instruments. A few are good in a mix, but not so great as a solo instrument. Over the years, I’ve had many of these available to me. There have been dozens or perhaps even hundreds of attempts to capture the sound of a piano in this way.

Instead, we use the sounds that a piano makes loaded into a sound library or virtual instrument. What’s a “piano library” anyway? Well, musicians with a studio as small as mine don’t have the luxury of a real grand piano. As you can imagine, this process was fun for me as a pianist and musical geek.

I tested each of the four sound sets against each of my improvisations and tried to choose the one that sounded best. For this release, I used four different piano libraries. But this time, I changed that up completely. Until “ Interdependence Suite” I used only one piano sound per release.

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