a technical question

I different song on the same concert on, same effect different awesome sound

Edited by aginor - October 03 2010 at 10:44

aginor wrote: this song by Elton which he plays live, in the solo some small string texture sound enters the scene but I see no violins or cellos, how dose he make a Grand-piano produce such string sound, tell me about it, I know it is some sort of effect but can someone tell me how it works

You can modify a grand piano to utilise MIDI i.e. playing the keys can trigger other sounds sourced from an external tone generator or sampler. I know that Keith Emerson has used something similar in the past in the live realm where a string pad sound was layered onto that of the piano triggered by his release time e.g if he held a long chord the string patch would swell up behind the piano sound.

I can't hear sound on my PC at the moment (soundcard gremlins) so can't say if Elton is doing similar

this song by Elton which he plays live, in the solo some small string texture sound enters the scene but I see no violins or cellos, how dose he make a Grand-piano produce such string sound, tell me about it, I know it is some sort of effect but can someone tell me how it works