Beto-Music wrote:Yes, a good idea.
I made this same suggestion long time ago.
But I'm not sure if it's easy... if, for example, would perhaps require to analyze a real piano with real silver strings, to create a fair modelled version.
Anyway it would extend even more the great flexibility of pianoteq.
As a former metallurgical and materials engineer with advanced degrees in the subject, who retired with 30 years experience in the steel industry, I really have a laugh at Roland's concept (or hubris) of introducing silver or other such metallic wires for strings. Why? Pure silver, copper, aluminum and pure gold for that matter, are so soft as to render them utterly useless for piano strings. Stated a different way, it is physically impossible to stress a silver, copper, aluminum or even gold wire with enough tension so as to make them render a piano note! If you attempt to increase the tension on these materials, they will simply "stretch permanently" and will not allow for the required tensions to be attained in order to produce a given musical tone. For that matter, you may as well try stringing a piano with rubber bands; they are so "stretchy" that hitting them with a felt hammer would render such as soft sound as to be useless.
Of course, the good marketing folks at Roland are counting on people's ignorance of material science that they can "pretend" they are giving us silver or copper strings in their V-Piano, and Mr. Consumer will gladly proceed to believe he/she is playing a piano consisting of said material as strings.
Even a piano string made of pure iron is much too weak to be made into piano wire; carbon must be introduced into the iron to make it into steel, and the amount of carbon put into steel for piano wire happens to be at the high end of the usable carbon range.
Let's not fall victim to other vendor's marketing ploys.
Cheers,
Joe