![]() Some people add reverb to the point where it’s noticeable, then back-off to the point where you don’t really notice it but “something’s missing” if you remove it altogether. The amount of reverb that sounds great in a concert hall usually sounds unnatural coming from a pair of speakers in your living room. Reverb is stretching/smearing/sustain like “heeellllooo”. The delay times are short and there are many reflections so you don’t hear the distinct echos. In a “studio recording”, artificial reverb is usually added digitally or sometimes the microphones are placed to pick-up natural reverb from the room. Reverb is from the room, not the instrument. “Reverberation” is the sound naturally bouncing around in a concert hall/music hall. But if you are using MIDI you’ll probably get better results if you start with a good virtual instrument, then possibly add reverb. There are LOTS of 3rd-party reverb plug-ins if you can’t get a sound you like with Audacity. If your piano already has reverb (MIDI sequencer), you can create mud in a big hurry. They’re loud enough, but you can’t understand what they’re saying.Īlso there’s a combination effect. This effect is listening to somebody talking in a very live room. Too short and the piano can sound dry and flat, too long and the sound gets lost in the echoes. Reverb is the one where you scan pick the room size, liveness, etc. Same problem.Īudacity Echo is one trip and you get to select the delay and the decay. That’s why up until relatively recently, echoes were still made by machines, not digital.Īlso see: digital drum set. In general, digital can’t keep up with that, so you get a handful of echoes which can sound dry and not very musical. That’s what gives each room its distinctive sound. In a real room, there are thousands of echoes from each wall and surface. There is another problem with digital echo. The last time I tried to use the reverb or echoes, the default settings weren’t very musical. If the USB connection is an actual digital sound bitstream, then you have the effects in Audacity or any plugins that Audacity can use. Honky-Tonk, Upright, Electric Grand, Acoustic Grand, etc. I can select between all the different Yamaha pianos. ![]() ![]() I can send MIDI USB “songs” to my big Yamaha keyboard and then record the analog headphone output. You can get a different piano sound by using a different computer, interpretor, or sequencer. Is it MIDI or an actual digital sound connection? If it’s MIDI, you’re actually recording the piano sound generated by the MIDI interpretor in your computer, not the tone generator in the piano. I record my piano directly from the piano using a USB. ![]()
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