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On lamia6 said

Ok I had to check out Vogue, and I do notice that on G#6, it’s not all that bad but certainly there. Like a note, then a click. Seems to go away when you turn the Ambiance part off. Noises do bug me though. Like on guitar amp – pedal sims, emulating the AC hum like you are using a cheap adapter or got wiring issues. Why? The one annoying part of hardware. Some analog synth emulations too, just minor little artifacts. Once you hear it you cannot unhear it, guess those are supposed to make it true analog emulation, but still, why not a clean analog and improve the thing. I’m sure the companies would have done so in the past 4 or so decades since those 80’s synths were made. Imagine a guitar with a fret buzz, and saying nah lets keep that in there. LOL. Makes no sense.

I wasn’t literally referring to a note as having noise in it; I wrote that post on my laptop — not my DAW PC.

When I went through the samples and took off all the effects, I could still hear the noises. I then did a search and found a blurb from UJAM stating that the samples have noises baked into them, you cannot remove them, but you can use their effects to tone them down somewhat. They attempt to position it as natural charm. I disagree. I think it makes them unusable when you want solo piano, at least for me. Consequently, I would be very careful about purchasing more UJAM acoustic piano sample libraries. I love the presets, but there’s too much noise in the samples for my taste. I first found this to be the case with Relic, which has a lot of noises baked into the samples. I love the presets, but not the noises.

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