piano
Articles about piano:
Native Instruments today introduced the BERLIN, NEW YORK and VIENNA CONCERT GRAND as well as UPRIGHT PIANO, four software instruments that offer detailed reproductions of some of the world’s most revered pianos.
Previously available within the acclaimed AKOUSTIK PIANO, these instruments can now be purchased individually to specifically accommodate a certain sound or musical genre, or as a bundle that offers the full range of piano tones.
BERLIN, NEW YORK, VIENNA CONCERT GRAND and UPRIGHT PIANO are available in the NI Online Shop at $79 / 69 € per individual instrument. A bundle of all four instruments is available for $189 / 169 €. Read more…
Modartt has released Pianoteq Pro – the advanced version of Pianoteq. Its major feature over Pianoteq is per note adjustment for physical parameters.
Features:
- Note per note adjustment for 22 physical parameters: detune, unison width, direct sound duration, hammer hardness piano, hammer hardness mezzo, hammer hardness forte, spectrum profile, hammer noise, strike point, pickup symmetry, pickup distance, impedance, cutoff, Q factor, string length, note resonance, quadratic effect, damper position, damper duration, damper noise, key release noise, volume. Restricted to detune and volume in the Standard version.
- Internal sample rate available up to 192 kHz. Restricted to 48 kHz in the Standard version.
Pianoteq Pro is available now for windows, Mac OS X and Linux for 399€.
Seeburg Style H Orchestrion plays Barney Google
The largest and most ornate American built orchestrion, the J P Seeburg model H, performs in the shop of Reblitz Restorations as the staff readies the instrument for delivery.
Somebody needs to get ahold of one of these and “repurpose it” for modern music, don’t you think?
via ampicoab
Free Music Software: Mokafix has introduced Glue Reeds – a free virtual electric piano for Windows, based on a Pianet mechanism.
Glue Reeds uses reactive synthesis which emulates each part of the sound generating process.
Pickups response is carefully emulated, producing a very expressive instrument with great dynamics.
Feature list:
- Velocity curve control
- Physical parameters adjustments
- Seemless dynamic response
- Endless sustain decay
- Authentic EP sound thanks to Reactive Synthesis
GlueReeds is freeware. it is available as a VSTi for PC. Read more…
Free Korg M1 Piano Samples
Failed Muso has an interesting story about how sounds get sampled and shared, starting with a famous Korg M1 patch:
Remember that classic piano sound from 90’s house records? The ubiquitous Korg M1 Piano patch was the 90’s equivalent of the DX7’s EP patch or the Fairlight’s Orch5 stab.
A long time ago, a cohort on the KvR forum, a guy from Norwich by the name of Kriminal, sampled his M1 keyboard and made the piano patch available as a soundfont, I believe.
Being an avid Akai user, I asked him if I could convert to the Akai S5/6000 and Z Series formats, to which he agreed.
He goes on to explain how the samples ended up in EXS24 format, via Nick at SonicState.
Who knows where else the samples have landed…….
Download links at the Failed Muso site.
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