Piano sound

[Bachus]

Ah, yes, I get what you're saying now: "They bought an instrument, recorded it and used their recorded samples to create an instrument, which they then sold. I have bought their instrument, so why shouldn't I be allowed to record it and use my recorded samples to create an instrument, which I will then sell?"

Edit: Here's a discussion of the topic: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/1004513-what-content-other-instruments-can-you-legally-sample-sell.html

Anyway, I'm not going to risk it, because I don't want to get sued. Also, I think NI did a very good job with The Grandeur and deserve to get paid for it, so I don't want to basically tell people that they shouldn't buy it, because they can just use my copy of The Grandeur instead. If someone wants The Grandeur (or any other VST) on their Genos, then I think they should buy that VST.

Oh, i own the grandeur as it is part of komplete 12..  but sampling and recording it is quite a lot of work... so i will just midi the genos and play it...

I will probably have to convert some sf2 samples to yamaha/yem and create a piano myself for local playing..

[Bachus]

SnowThief, interesting topic. I'm curious how you did get the Grandeur samples into the Genos. I assume you have to use YEM for it?
I can imagine you don't want to share the samples but sharing the procedure how to convert it is hopefully possible?
If you have tested everything and it works one can decide to buy this or any other sampled VST. The Grandeur is not very expensive and in this case you don't need Kontakt to use it.
I agree with the general opinion here  that most VST's (sampled or modelled like Pianoteq) sound better than the Genos CFX.

Funny thing is I also have a Kawai ES8 which is a 88 key stage piano with very nice sounds and I prefer it above the Genos piano sounds. However when I run a midi recorded on the ES8 in the GEnos and make a wav recording the Genos CFX sounds also very good, maybe even better then recorded as audio file from the Kawai ES8.

You can either choose to resample, or convert the kontakt samples to sf2 format..

Keep in mind tough that in both instances you will loose the smart kontakt scripting and the effects/dsp and modification options..