![]() ![]() Roel DeWitt: The idea stems from the fact that there didn't seem to be, before now, a library or a virtual instrument that was truly “fun” to play like a real piano. Guido Scognamiglio: The first question is the usual one: how did the idea of TruePianos come about? But the dynamics are also well suited to semi-weighted keyboards like that of the Motif 7 and even an M-Audio controller! And I assure you that the result is excellent, particularly on the CME UF8 but also on the Motif 8 and on an old Roland RD-300, and on a now run-down Fatar Studio 88. And so, to bring the infinity of nature into the mere confines of an artificial system (wow, how complicated I said it!) TruePianos focuses particularly on the relationship between the dynamics of the master keyboard and the emission of the sound. You know very well that the MIDI system is limited to a maximum of 127 levels of dynamics, which in some ways are too many (the ear would hardly understand the difference between one sample and the next if there were 127 samples in a multisampled piano), but in other respects they may seem few, because an acoustic instrument has no numerical limits. The real strength of TruePianos is, in fact, the dynamic response that easily adapts to all hands and all keyboards. In short, at first I was a bit disappointed, but I still hadn't considered the fact that this choice is actually a stroke of genius, it makes the instrument like a real piano: sit down and play. Yet, I really should think differently! Anyone who knows me knows what I mean. Then the self-analysis began, I thought I was now addicted to the concept "synthesis = complexity", which associates the background of a complex sound synthesis with the difficulty of using a product. The only controls you see are dedicated to setting the dynamic response, choosing presets or little else. Instead, now I don't know if with disappointment or with pleasant surprise, but the interface of TruePianos is of a unique simplicity! Look at the Fig.2 and judge for yourself. instructions of at least thirty pages in English. Having already tried its French antagonist, and having read that it would be a tool based on real-time synthesis systems, I expected to find myself in front of an interface full of controls, and I was already psychologically preparing myself for having to read a manual. ![]() The first version (the one in our possession for this article) is supplied free of charge with the Diamond and Emerald modules, which simulate respectively a piano with a dry and neutral sound, excellent for jazz and pop, and one a little softer and more ambient, ideal for classic and amarcorde. January 18, the Namm Show begins in Los Angeles and this mysterious plug-in is released publicly, the name is TruePianos ( Fig.1), “True” means true and “pianos” is in the plural because this instrument does not offer the sound of a single piano but with its additional modules it proposes to expand the sound possibilities to different types of pianos. In January of this year at a certain point we began to know something more precise about this product, even if another similar product had already been released a few months before, but the curiosity was still strong, indeed fueled even more by the desire to compare products to each other. At one point, the author of this "post" makes you hear audio examples of the result of that work still under development. Roel De Witt, one of the authors of this amazing musical product together with George Yohng of 4Front, tells us all the details.įor months, in the KvR forum (a well-known English site) there was talk of the release, sooner or later, of a virtual instrument capable of simulating the sound of the acoustic piano through a synthesis system that did not use gigabytes and gigabytes of samples. A truly commendable project, the result of a small independent software house already known for excellent freeware products published in recent years. It's called TruePianos, and the name already says it all. ![]() Here we are again, after synthesizers and avant-garde electronic gadgets, you feel like playing an acoustic instrument a bit, right? Maybe a nice piano? But you are not as lucky as our editor-in-chief who in recent days has finally managed to take home the most beautiful piano for sale in all of Milan, right? So I'll satisfy you, this month I present the latest found in terms of piano sound simulations. ![]()
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