Hammer noises on Pianoteq are samples right? Is there other samples hidden Inside?
Suppose that I record each notes from an acoustic guitar by not pinching the notes but hitting them. Then with a software, lets take audacity I change pitches as to cover the entire range of a piano. Then duplicate each notes into 2 or 3 same notes with slight differences in frequencies... to mimic the fact that the piano has 2-3 strings per notes... I can go on to add some other transformations to craft a Piano. I can then with a series of Fourier transformation and other constructions emulate all the given required effects.
Now, if I have a computer strong enough... all those transformations could theoretically be made real time... but the basis would be the guitar. The core notes recording could be taking, about 5 MB (guitars have a limited range of notes compared to a Piano)
Then I add a series of Piano makes which all have that guitar in common. Why taking the guitar? Because a simple instrument could be crafted easily... a company can not just take an existing Piano and build over it without disclosing it... and each Pianos have a make and due credit has to be given. And it would take a lot of resources to just built a whole piano from scratch to just record its notes. But just taking any 6 string instrument on an easily crafted wooden box...
I am not claiming Modartt did it this way, I am simply saying that's the way my gifted son will design it. Audacity is open source... and he would have access to all those transformations. Could I market it? because I can not make money out of codes my son has borrowed from Audacity. But... the wooden box, was built by his father... this undisclosed box is all it takes to market the product..., because I have patent over what my child father built.
That's the analogy I made with those bitmap textures or skins... and 3D vectorial models serving as containers.
See if someone one day steal some codes from Pianoteq... if they're mere equations... they can always get away because Fourier transformations or other constructs can all be derived from simple observations... where they might be caught is if they also steal a possible recording of that wooden box... because simply put those aren't formulas... they are directly recorded from an acoustical instrument... which was handcrafted by them.
The problem with sampled Piano's... is that they have all their makes... they're also heavy with all the recorded notes... and for this reason they already take a lot of resources... transforming those instruments on top of that will make it very difficult to compute for most computers (even if it wasn't, using few notes of unprocessed string, such as those of a guitar gives more freedom)... the same could not be said of... well of few notes... which are transformed by formulas...
Is it this way it is done by Modartt? I don't know!!!... again, that's how my gifted son would have design it.
As for the suggestion that ''the representation of all phenomena can only & fundamentally be understood through the truth function of logical propositions'',... didn't Kant in his critic of pure reason claimed this isn't wholly true?
Anyway, I'll be taking a few week pause from the forum...
Last edited by Lucy (22-09-2017 01:17)