Finally as Promissed the German Grand Hiss File

Night Spirit · Post by **Night Spirit** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 4:45 am

At least one person does hear what I am talking about. Thank you rricky rrecardo for having the same golden ear's as me. And yes I have tested this on most all the sounds on the board. It only does it on the german grand which sucks since it's my favorite. Now in some of the other piano sounds it is noticeable but it's about 80% quieter then the german grand. If the rest of the Piano sounds, as well as my strings, guitars so on so forth had the same back round sound then I honestly would not care. I would know that its a normal sounds for any audio equipment. Once you run current threw any audio device EXCEPT for acoustic you have to have SOME sort of extremely low audio signal. You can never escape it as capasators, resistors, Limiters start passing electricity threw them. But the fact that this back round noise is only present on one of the Piano Sound samples that is why I have made this thread.

And yes I am aware that a MP3 will cause some noise as well, that is why I am listing to this threw the board, and you can specifically decipher the difference from a low Lv buzz that MP3 does vs the Low level hissing that I am getting.

rrricky rrrecordo · Post by **rrricky rrrecordo** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:32 am

I think that Seedy probably has come closest to explaining this "effect". His ideas in regard to the sample noise inherent in recording a sound from initial attack to final decay make sense. Guitar, string and similar samples may go into looping (at a higher wave amplitude) well before the actual decay of the "string" ever takes place (artificially, through envelope control) - thus you may well hear less discernible sample noise in these patches (better S/N ratio).

I would still maintain that your Kronos is not suffering a defect. It's exhibiting physics, and on the best and highest currently "tameable" level.

Play on, Night Spirit, it's all good

SeedyLee · Post by **SeedyLee** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:18 am

Night Spirit wrote:But the fact that this back round noise is only present on one of the Piano Sound samples that is why I have made this thread

Actually, if you listen hard enough, you will notice that noise is evident on all the unlooped pianos, as well as many of the looped acoustic samples.

However it seems you have only noticed it on the one sample set, and hence have assumed it is only present there.

Night Spirit · Post by **Night Spirit** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:43 am

As I sated before, I have heard it on other piano banks, but its the most present on the German Grand. Since it was a major difference from the rest I just assumed it was a flaw of some sort. It has not inhibited any of my recordings, but from all the issues these boards have been having, it was only natural I would think something on that line. As I said in my original post this is not a Korg Bash thread, I still feel this is the best dam piano ever made plain and simple. But was hoping someone has had this, or knew how to make that hissing go away. I personally don't prefer it but I can defiantly live with it. In the Pictures you can see my setting's are all +25db I don't like the Mechanical noise, key noise or any of that stuff, which is why those sounds are not present in the recording.

But I do thank you guys for taking the time to listen, and explain what is going on in the best of your knowledge.