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The piano is my favorite instrument, yet because it is both acoustic and percussive, it is a nightmare to mix in ensemble settings. At its rumbly low end, it is a filing cabinet hurled down a cinderblock stairwell. At its high end, it is comparable to birds flying into plate glass windows. Where its role is supportive, it can be pushed to the back of the room with confidence. With some instances of my music, however, it possesses an involved construction that requires visibility.
My Logic assets include all three major pianos as software instruments. Following the inclusion of Apple’s orchestral Jam Pack series into my toolkit in 2009, I used the Steinway piano exclusively as my essential keybroad. It is the brightest of my three pianos, but I use it less so these days. I was intrigued to find the Bösendorfer among my Logic Pro X instruments in 2019. I have long loved this piano for its warm bell tone quality. Tuneful Mozart and Schubert sound great on this piano. It is less versatile than the Steinway in large, noisy ensembles.
My favorite piano these days in the Yamaha, which was also part of the Logic Pro X update. It sits between the Steinway and Bösendorfer in tone. I had not yet made this determination at the time I purchased a Yamaha digital paino in 2022, and perhaps noodling around on this piano influenced my opinion on its usefulness as an ensemble instrument.
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