SonicCouture / Hammersmith v3

[Piet De Ridder]

SonicCouture have updated their Hammersmith Steinway and the library now also includes two generative tools (not unlike what you find in a.o. Noire).

Me, I never clicked with the original Hammersmith. It's been years since I played it, but I do recall it had a lovely pianissimo and a strong fortissimo but in between those two extremes, everything sounded sort of samey to my ears, despite the 21 velocity layers. However, the new demos seem to indicate that things have improved quite a bit in the new version. I'm downloading.




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[RobS]

Piet, do you know if they also updated the LE version?
EDIT: just checked, yes they have.
If you don't mind, do you think upgrading to Pro makes a big difference? I see I can do it for 49$, seems like a good opportunity.

[Piet De Ridder]

I've been spending some time with it today and ... I'm afraid I still don't like it very much. I'll post an audio example tomorrow, Rob, cause I can't describe with any useful accuracy all that's bothering me while playing this instrument.

As far as I'm concerned: I'll be soon moving this update to where the previous version of this library resided: my graveyard HD.
But first a few audio examples.

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[RobS]

hahaha the graveyard drive! Genius

[RobS]

I confess that after listening to the video I still find the timbre cold, thin and honestly not attractive