The Sound Board

A few GUI suggestions:

- Would it be possible, in an update, to add the option to link the stereo channels? (Would take much of the tedium out of setting the desired sound.)
- Also: some of default values of the faders ought to be checked: the default value of a mono channel should be centre, not 100% left.
- Maybe also consider renaming the ‘Sustain’ parameter. That parameter isn’t related to the sustain of the instrument at all, but mixes in a cloud of resonances.
- Not essential, but convenient nonetheless: a few parameters with which to control the responsiveness and dynamic behaviour of the instrument.
- And a small, minor thing: why not make the entire buttons, with which to switch tabs, clickable? So much easier than having to aim for that much smaller area to the left of those buttons.


Not GUI-, but sample-related:

I don’t know if there’s still some unused material among the material you recorded for this library, but I very much hope there is, because using only one sample to cover three, in some cases four notes, is stretching it rather, I find. (There’s even one range of five notes that all share the same samples, and unfortunately that occurs in the all-important lower-mid range of the keyboard.)
The many problems this causes are quite noticeable all across the keyboard, I'm afraid; a particularly telling example happens when you go from a A#2 (Yamaha note-naming standard) to a B2 (or C3 or even C#3; another threesome that also has to share the same samples among them): huuuuuuge and very distracting difference between the 'Front' sample that sits under A#2 and the one under B2.
(The samples that cover the B2-C#3 range are, sadly, among the weakest of the entire pool: no definition, no power, no authority whatsoever.)

The (raw) samples themselves are, in most cases, too good to be spread out like this, I find. It prevents what is now a half-nice and semi-decent piano library to be a great one. (And it really could have been a great one, based on the quality of what's included.)

And talking about adding samples: an extra layer at the top, to cover the highest and most resonating dynamic of a grand piano, would be very welcome too as it would expand the expressive powers of the instrument considerably. (At the moment, playability feels a bit restrained because the piano just doesn’t open up in the f>fff range.) And the same goes for the range at the other end of the dynamic scale.

In brief: moderately satisfied with the purchase, but I also quickly recognized — too quickly, in fact — it as one of those libraries of which you hope that it is loved enough by its developer so that it'll get the update(s) it needs and deserves.
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