I understand and appreciate your frustration. I think you may yet find it worthwhile to explore the nature of what disappoints you about the sound. The more precisely that you can pin down those characteristics, then the better you'll be able to evaluate how you might be able to bend them to your will. It may not be possible with the M50, I'm not sure, since I don't know what you're looking for anymore than you do. In this case, diagnosis, exploration, and evaluation by breaking the sound down into individual elements can help to identify the specific characteristics that are making the difference to you. Once you've identifed those characteristics, then you will be in a much better position to see whether or not the M50 engine can be tweaked to achieve them better. Regardless of the M50, breaking down a sound into fine detail can help you tweak the sounds to improve any piano, on any synth, even ones you already like.gsuhon wrote:To xmlguy: I certainly meant no disrespect and I apologize if I came across that way (which I obviously did). that's why i said I meant no offense and i appreciated all the input I was getting in my earlier post. But you are absolutely correct, i am bitching, but bitching is not the only reason i'm here. I guess i'm just frustrated by not being able to get what i want in a piano from the m50. You are probably also correct when you say i'm not able to describe the sound. So, again, I do apologize. I was out of line. i didn't come to this forum to make enemies and i do appreciate you're effort to help me.
Hybrid ROMplers like the M50 are inherently limited to the waveforms on board, and I think we all know that acoustic pianos sound different from each other, even the same models, so samples of them will be different for that reason alone, besides the wide variations due to how the sampling was done. Sometimes the synth engine can help to improve results you get with a multisample, but there are definitely limits about what can be done. Workstations that sample or that can use new multisamples, like your TR, have a big advantage over ROMplers like the M50 or X50 when the samples just aren't going to work. That's why I don't "push" romplers when a sampler is needed. You probably should stick to samplers, at least unless you're happy with all the sounds that are most important to you in the ROM. I look forward to the day when ROMplers disappear entirely to be replaced by FLASHplers.
