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![]() ![]() The Garritan CFX pulls this off very well too, and there’s a beautiful array of presets. Is it the most versatile? No, but if you’re looking for a close, dry sound, this is a gorgeous engine. The 275 is simple to use and offers a truly stellar VST experience for solo piano. Both of these plugins are exactly the same price, but use different pianos with different approaches. The Ravenscroft 275 is the winner here, with a nod going to the Garritan CFX. Best for a Close, Intimate Sound: Winner - Ravenscroft 275, Honourable Mention - Garritan CFX There are times you need a VST for highly exposed, solo piano playing. It’s also less expensive, so it’s definitely a great value option. It’s not as complex or expensive, but it does boast a very nice room and piano capture. An honorable mention for this category goes to Cinepiano. But for orchestral recordings and film music applications, the VSL engine is a triumph. For a dry, close, intimate sound, there are other VST’s that are better. This is a stunningly beautiful room capture, and more importantly, the piano sounds marvelous in the space. ![]() Honorable Mention - Cinepiano For those times when you need a faithful recreation of a concert grand in a large concert hall, nothing tops the VSL Synchron VST. Best Piano for a Large Hall Sound: Winner - Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron. The library is absolutely massive, and every single instrument has been captured beautifully - including authentic recreations of all of the imperfections This is a one-size-fits-all that should work for just about any project, from Classical projects to, 70’s fusion, pop etc. Best All-Around: Winner - Keyscape If you were looking for the dynamic all-around VST, Keyscape is our winner here. If those aspects are important to you, you may want to look elsewhere. ![]() Why would anyone need anything else? Well, Pianoteq doesn’t have the most realistic ambiance, nor does it accurately recreate all of the imperfections we get with a real acoustic instrument. Since it’s a modeling-based engine, for each instrument pack, the range of editable options is nothing short of staggering. Bechstein, Bluthner, Yamaha’s, etc, not to mention a whole bunch of keyboard instruments as well. ![]() There are many different instrument packs including various Steinways, a C. Once you dive in, you’ll find an essentially endless universe to explore. The standard version is middle of the road as far as pricing goes, and should suit approx 80-90% of users. Here they are: The Most Comprehensive and Editable: Winner - Pianoteq For folks ready to go down the VST rabbit hole with deep customization of a plethora of parameters, the winner here is Pianoteq and its modeling-based VST. The more we’ve gotten familiar with various VST’s, the more we’ve been able to come up with our own internal rating system based on different factors. Please like the video below, and if it’s your first time on the channel, subscribe and hit that notification bell! Overview: It’s important to note right away that there’s no one, single criteria by which every VST can be judged as all of them are geared towards different applications. There is no absolute best VST as it’s going to come down to what you’re using a VST for, and of course, your own personal musical preferences. In today’s video, we’ll be taking all of our impressions from our ongoing VST series and determining our favorites in a variety of categories. Most Comprehensive and Editable: 2:31 Best All-Around: 6:47 Best Piano for a Large Hall Sound: 9:01 Best for a Close, Intimate Sound: 12:13 Best Value: 15:52 Most Fun: 18:05 □ See More Digital Pianos▸ □ Subscribe to Merriam Pianos HERE ▸ □ Click the □ bell to be notified of all videos! ▸ #VST #Plugin #Piano Hello and welcome to another piano review at the Merriam Pianos YouTube channel. □Best Piano VST Plugins: Keyscape, Addictive Keys, Pianoteq, Vienna Symphonic Library & More□ View Via Youtube □Best Piano VST Plugins: Keyscape, Addictive Keys, Pianoteq, Vienna Symphonic Library & More□ Please Read or Watch a Video About an Article " □Best Piano VST Plugins: Keyscape, Addictive Keys, Pianoteq, Vienna Symphonic Library & More□ ", Hopefully This Information Can Be Useful For Visitors to This Blog. ![]() ![]() ![]() Clark and Pino’s success created a blueprint or template for other student activists to use against their own recalcitrant universities (and they have). 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As always, there’s a brand, the university’s brand, to protect and that often comes at the expense of the victims and survivors of campus rape. Not surprisingly, fraternities and athletes tend to be lightly punished, if they’re punished at all, for on-campus rule-breaking or illegal behavior, including rape, resulting in an atmosphere conducive to serial offenders (thus “the hunting ground” of the title). In exchange for scholarships and housing, athletes, especially top-tier athletes in high-profile, revenue-generating sports like football and basketball, can help their schools generate millions. Athletes, of course, are part of a multi-billion dollar industry. Fraternities both help save universities money (because they provide campus housing and essentially regulate themselves) and serve as money funnels for alumni. ![]() With both fraternities and athletes, the driving force behind minimal or no punishments is easy to find: Money. ![]() Depending on the school, punishment can range from a small dollar fine ($25) to expulsion (an extreme rarity), but punishment becomes even less likely where fraternities or famous athletes are involved. Of reported rapes, few result in a disciplinary hearing against the accused perpetrator and even less result in any kind of significant punishment. Campus rapes tend to be grossly underreported by victims, often to avoid stigma or shame. The interviewees, mostly women in their early- to mid-twenties, help to personalize the statistics, in essence putting faces and experiences to the statistics Kirby and Ziering interweave throughout The Hunting Ground. Campus rapes tend to be grossly underreported by victims, often to avoid stigma or shame.ĭick deftly – and it should be added, sometimes crudely given the explicit aims of his documentary – mixes direct-to-camera interviews with multiple survivors, including several men, along with a steady stream of statistics, each set of statistics more disturbing or distressing than the last. It’s a fitting description for The Hunting Ground’s narrative arc as well, one that Dick and producer Amy Ziering explore with the same tenacity and thoroughness found in their previous Oscar-nominated collaboration, The Invisible War, a powerful, compelling l exposé of sexual assault and rape in the U.S. Cast: Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering, Amy Herdy Director: Kirby Dick Country: USA Genre: Documentary Websites: Official siteĮditor’s Notes: The Hunting Ground opens in limited release, today March 13th.Ībout two-thirds into director Kirby Dick’s ( This Film is Not Yet Rated) latest documentary, The Hunting Ground, an alarming, but no less timely or essential, examination of the rape crisis on university campuses in the United States, one of the interviewees describes the personal arc undergone by several women Kirby features in The Hunting Ground: From victim to survivor to activist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Having a head coach with a good coach influence rating will help more XP trickle down to the staff.Ĭoaches have their own card where you can track their coaching record and see how many awards they’ve won. Coaches earn XP across all six categories as they progress through their career by winning games, winning hardware, being at the top of the league in scoring, etc. Where one may specialize in defense, another might work best with veterans, preventing them from suffering serious skill regression. Each coach has a distinct teaching specialty. These break down across six categories – offense, defense, power play, penalty kill, teaching (which helps grow or stunt prospect growth), coach influence (which helps develop staff). Like scouts, coaches have their own set of ratings. For each league, you hire a head coach, two assistants, and a goalie coach. A wide variety of coaches are generated at the start of your franchise mode (complete with character models that will be seen in-game), and you can hire and fire them at will.Įach organization has a total of eight coaches split across the NHL and AHL. EA wants to eventually incorporate them, but there are some licensing hurdles to overcome that prevented them from making it into NHL 20. Now it’s time for NHL to join the ranks of franchise modes where coaches play an integral role in the experience of running an organization.īefore breaking down how coaches affect the game, I should note that no real NHL head coaches are in the game this year. Any other third party trademarks or copyrights are the property of their respective owners. The Zamboni word mark and configuration of the Zamboni ice resurfacing machine are registered trademarks of Frank J. All NHL team jerseys customized with NHL players' names and numbers are officially licensed by the NHL and the NHLPA. All NHL logos and marks and NHL team logos and marks depicted herein are the property of the NHL and the respective teams and may not be reproduced without the prior written consent of NHL Enterprises, L.P. 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If you manage to make a good implementation of such animation, it sure won't be a piece of cake. Basically, this type of animation works great for rendered cutscenes only. So, anyway, video animation is not for everyone and not always applicable, almost never, to be precise. The compromise between quality and efficiency can be achieved only in limited number of specific cases, like in above-mentioned Hidden Object games. Bad thing is a great load on the CPU when you're decoding and, of course, the image quality. What's good about this kind of animation is, of course, that you can create almost anything, from stage-managed scenes with real actors to rendered 3D-battles. Add to this codecs like theora or vp8, and you will be able to create quite nice video animation (even with alpha compositing) of your own. We've implemented something like this in Hidden Object games for bulky and complex animation, and also for cutscenes with a hint of realism. And yes, it still is applied and sometimes even rightly. Video animationīasically, video animation is an apotheosis of the frame-by-frame madness. ![]() Works only for small and few animation frames, perfect for pixel art and retro-style games like NES. For example, cutting in blocks can be only used in pixel art, background loading places an additional strain on the disk, takes a lot of space on this disk, thus increasing the size of the game itself, as well as the amount of data required for a user to launch or update it. But remember that all of these tricks have their own drawbacks, too. Certainly, you can use all kinds of tricks, such as cutting frames in blocks and then reuse of the repetitive blocks, background loading of frames from disk and removing the ones already shown, and so on. The main disadvantage is, of course, the amount of memory all this stuff requires. ![]() Any tools: almost anything can provide you with a sequence of frames that you can, if you need to, put together into one texture atlas. Any complexity and style of animation, you can even insert the whole movie frames (in theory, of course). In this animation, each frame is represented by an individual picture, and by changing those pictures really quickly, we get the illusion of movement.Įlementary implementation, usually available for any engine. Kicking-off our mini-review, the simplest and most ancient type of animation: frame-by-frame animation. Just as well, if you're here only to see the features of Flash animation, you will find them in the article below. Feel free to skip this section if you are well-versed in this matter (trust me, there are going to be no revelations or eye-openers). I will consider only 2D-animation, since 3D animation is a topic for a completely different conversation, with its own approaches and tools. ![]() Now, let's look at the most popular animation techniques in games. Thus, if you really, really need inverse kinematics, then it would be very weird of you to prefer non-skeletal animation. And the third variable is the tools' capabilities. Are there any third-party solutions and what is the quality of those? Do you have opportunity and ability to create your own solution? Of course, the efficiency and convenience of all of the above is crucial, too. The second variable is more technical one, and it's abou integrating the tools into your engine. So, basically, your project, whole or in part, will be stopped for an indefinite period, which can be very expensive, especially for a commercial product. In this case, if your employees leave for some reason (or get hit by a bus), it will be almost impossible to replace them. Sure thing, choosing an extremely specific product doesn't make much sense. First question you have to ask yourself is what tools are your animators used to (can work with), and which of those are easier for you to find. Now, there are a few variables which your choice will depend on. One of these components is, of course, the animation system. When you start working on any project, you always have to face the problem of choosing the technologies for most its components. You'll find all that inside! Introduction I also have lots of other fascinating stuff to tell about: internals of the SWF format, special features of the Unity editor extension and general matters of animation. In this article series, I will talk about how and why we decided to create our own solution for import of Flash animation to Unity, and about optimization techniques and internal workings of the plug-in. ![]() ![]() Into Action Gaming? Check out the popular Rise of the Tomb Raider Mac Game. 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Also another science experiment i would like to try is using a tuning fork and microphone and watching how sound waves travel through each pipe if i make them right all pipes should be in perfect harmony its just a theory because sound is just a pressure wave if i record it and watch it on a pc it will be like a pressure wave scope well see how this goes im not holding my breath for this to work.Īnd to make things a little easier i have access to a really nice engineering workshop and dyno. Thats about where im at so far ill probly put flanges on collectors where they get to 2.5" so i can take out the venturi and experiment with length, venturi size and taper for fine tuning. I would love to know the ex valve size anybody have this also has anybody actually degreed an alloytec i only need ex cam specs the error from the GM manual is the degreeing dosnt match the duration FAIL!Ĭalculations: Primary pipes 1.5"dia x 40" length for 4500rpm 38" for 5000rpm, Collector 6.17" length 2"dia venturi tapered out to 2.25" exit, secondaries 2.25"dia 37" lenght to crossover. all values at 0.150mm lift: Duration 238, opens -229btdc = 69bbdc, closes 9 atdc, centerline 111, overlap 0, cam lift 42.5mm, valve lift 10.8mm, Ecu controlled phasing upto +50 but my ex cam phase map shows +20 across the rev range at wide open throttle. ![]() ![]() Is there any engineers out there (not the welding or fabricating kind) or exhaust gurus that can help with some numbers i think iv got it right but this engine is a nightmare to calculate the ideal length for the pressure wave's due to cam phasing.ĭesign goals: Its a street car so broad torque curve with peak pressure wave efficiency at 4500rpm-5000rpm in theory about -3 to -5 psi at the exhaust valve.Įxtractor design: Mild steel material, laser cut flanges port matched, 3 into 1 primaries, custom made venturi style merge collectors, secondaries meeting at a siamese crossover pipe.ĭata: 594cc per cylinder, 94mm bore x 85.6 stroke, Exhaust cam specs that come from a GM workshop manual and i can tell there is an error in these and i cant be bothered degreeing my ex cam. ![]() But i can tell you there is not one set of properly made extractors for an alloytec 190 not even the pacemaker "tuned length" ones they dont even look close and what exactly are they tuned for? i have seen one nice set for a 335hp camaro but the dimensions are to big for alloytec190's ill add a pic at the bottom of post. 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