Stephen, thank you very much for the excellent tips on EQ and Ambisonics. Also, both your enthusiasm and playing style are refreshing. This new piano is bittersweet for me. I have had the Synchron Steinway D-274 for almost a year now and have become increasingly dissatisfied with its frequency imbalance - 7-10K is ear-piercing, especially when compressed for the final mix. Coincidentally, when I had reached the peak of my frustration, VSL released their new Synchron Bösendorfer Imperial. Wow! Absolutely spot on! I started playing piano 46 years ago, and, finally, I found a sampled piano that inspires me as much if not more than a physical concert grand. This piano is the best. I now own and am enjoying the full library. I ask, plead, VSL to redo the Steinway D-274 piano using the knowledge they gained while making the new Synchron Bösendorfer Imperial. I wouldn't think of re-buying the Steinway D-274 library as it currently is. Please redo that library with the same quality as the Bösendorfer Imperial. By the way, the original VSL Bösendorfer Imperial from 10+ years ago had the same piercing 7-10kHz band of boosted frequencies. I recently learned a game-changing trick for mixing. Use 48kHz DAW sampling rate but, for processing, use oversampling (96kHz or greater) with a brickwall highcut/lowpass at 22kHz immediately following - some plugins do this oversampling high cut automatically. This technique allows the high sample-rate musical overtones/subtle harmonics added by the natural distortion/saturation of microphones, compressors, etc. but eliminates the undesirable sonic elements that high sample rates create: unnaturally harsh high-frequency harmonics, masking, and phasing. This technique changed my life (found it on a FabFilter tutorial: "Samplerates: the higher the better, right?"). Finally, for those of you that mix and play your instruments with headphones, try the following plugins for max realism and fidelity: Sonarworks 'Reference 4' for headphones (flattens out the frequency curve for your specific model of headphones), and Goodhertz ‘CanOpener Studio’ (eliminates the headphone binaural effect by inserting the natural Left/Right crosstalk we hear when listening to physical studio monitors: it opens up and fills out the stereo field and eliminates the headphone dead spot in the center pan position - does not alter the perceived frequency balance, unlike Waves Nx plugins that thin the mix).

super Pianist und tech-man!

Mr. Limbaugh is, in my opinion, actually true. It is currently the best virtual concert grand on the market. I can well imagine that it will remain so for the foreseeable future. I don't work for VSL and I have heard and played countless libraries, some of them good. I am even shocked at how good this Bösendorfer sounds, but it is a positive shock that goes straight to the heart. Thank you very much for the excellent tips Mr. Limbaugh and the introduction to playing with the Bösendorfer. I also really like the binaural recording over headphones. Maybe there is a small tutorial on how to best configure binaural recordings, perhaps together with the Big Bang Orchestra with the new choir ;)

My grandfather rolled over in his sheet music

This video is great and really helpful -- thank you! It's super cool that you can EQ each note and I love your tip on 5:28. But the future looks scary!!!

Sounds great. I don't really know how the Atmos stuff comes in here though?

Tori Amos sure approves this one:-)

hi ! what master keyboard are you using ?

What’s the name of Bach piece at 3:20? It’s beautiful

I have a question, I think this is my last resort where I might get some answers. Can you please share some tips on how you get such great velocity levels using the Yamaha P45 as a midi controller ? Looking forward for your advice :)

What is that piece at the beginning ?

Quick question - the sound you were able to achieve in the opening piece for the video is exactly what has convinced me to invest in this product when I'm ready. Any rough idea what the mic levels and delay were to create the sound you did in the intro? It was literally perfect

sounds fantastic!

what is the very opening piece name???

What’s the name of this piece at 4:20

Could somebody please tell me what the arrangement is of the Beethoven pathetique at the start?? It sounds so huge I would love to know what it is

Hello! Can you tell me which audio interface are you using? PC specs, cpu, ram. Buffer size, example 96khz/96 buffer size, etc, preload size etc. Cuz i have i5 13500 cpu, 2x16gb DDR5 6400Mhz ram, and super fast Kingston Fury m2 ssd (7300mb/s), Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd gen audio interface, and sometimes getting pops, or crack sound when i playing with 5,6,7 mics. This is not acceptable with my pc.

I am interested in a full piano sound with a lot of sustain of the close mics. Bach's example sounds a bit thin for my taste. What is there at 3:20 - is there a sound disorder? Can the pure sustain hall be amplified?

What controller is he using?

Can anybody please tell me: what kind of sampler on the PC and subsequent sound card is needed to run this program together with an existing Roland masterkeybord ?

Amazing, but there is no plan for an upgrade from the Original Vienna Imperial?

What a wonderful library. But in a muscle shirt? Like … seriously? ;)