Musical Arts School
High-end optimized piano studio technology
for live playing and practicing
| Remastered | Original (extreme version)* | |
|---|---|---|
| Recordings | Imperfect + Picked Strings | Imperfect + Picked Strings + FX |
| Mics | Live | Player, Internal, Room, Dry |
| Velocity layers | 12 layers | 12 layers |
| Separate pedal down Samples | 15 layers | 15 layers |
| Performance | Without dropouts and all features playable with the audio interface set to 128 samples (with recommended hardware) | Rather not suitable for live playing and practising |
| Pedal modes | Half-pedal + Re-Pedaling | Half-pedal |
| Release Samples | 5 layers + 5 layers adaptive staccato | 5 layers + 5 layers staccato (seperate preset) |
| Sample processing | Mixed and AI-optimised for a natural piano sound in the player's sitting position (balanced spectrum, removed resonances, increased warmth and clarity) | unprocessed high-quality recordings |
| Sympathetic Resonance | Sample-based | Sample-based or modeling/ synthesis |
| Size | 4,113 Samples, 4.7 Gb, lossless FLAC compression | 16,756 Samples, 19 Gb, wav-Format |
| Velocity Curve |
Precisely measured presets for popular devices (natural touch with wide dynamic range, up to Δ 55dB) |
Linear + Customisable via UI |
| Round Robins | Were deliberately omitted due to lack of samples to leave the sound natural | 2 modelled by detuning (optional) |
| Silent key samples | ||
| Noises | Pedals + Fingertaps + Mechanics (optional), Body noises (included in the samples) | Pedals + Fingertaps + Mechanics (optional), Body noises (included in the samples) |
| FX Samples | Miscellaneous | |
| Una Corda Samples | Mixed from the picked strings samples (better than not having them at all) | |
| Repetition Strike Samples | ||
| Sostenuto pedal | ||
| Tuning | Transpose + Scala presets (Equal Temperament, Well-Tempered, ...) + Tuning presets (International 440, European 442, ...) | Transpose |
| Reverb | Sforzando Player presets | |
| Effects | Cinematic | |
| Formats | Free Plogue sforzando player (SFZ, open standard, free as in free me from proprietary formats) | EXS24, Kontakt Full 4 (or higher), ISP |
| Graphical user interface | Sforzando standard UI (in order to be able to create a fancy user interface, Plogue would first have to accept the Musical Arts School as an OEM partner) |
*The features given for the original version represent the results and opinions reached by the MAS team during the tests and may therefore differ from the information provided by the manufacturer ‘Imperfect Samples’