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  The Absolute Piano
really exploit the Virtual Piano concept by adding specific and innovative
possibilities. With its filters you can sculpt the piano timber and
produce a large number a piano sounds from the same base. Everything
is
specifically designed to manipulate and play piano sounds.
 Absolute Piano :
Yamaha C7. This piano has been sampled from a huge
Yamaha C7 piano. It has a typical powerful bright sound, in
the style of Elton John, that
 suits perfectly with all the modern
music style, like rock, pop, dream music. It was standing in he back
of the the shop, just tuned and fixed for a concert and ready to
move to the concert room. I spent the week-end in August 2006 to
sample it with my Laptop and a pair of Oktava condenser microphones.
I think that these microphones gave it this typical aggressive
sound, compared with the Bosendorfer I sampled the same day, but
with a couple of Ruban microphones. After that I've had re-worked
the sample during 2-3 month and re-sampled it around 8 times (digitally)
to have a perfect velocity switches, and a very optimized sound-bank.
Polyphony : the
Absolute piano can play 128 notes simultaneously!
New sound-bank,
all the new pianos were recorded in summer 2006 when the piano shop
was closed. The piano sound is deeply compressed
(lossless) to be small (280mb only). The compression is not audible.
The reverb has
been enhanced, it is as good as any professional one. No ringing
resonances like with most sample player around. Also
there are 2 vu-meters for left and right precise view instead of one
for the mix of the two channels together in V2. The interface is clearer, the
license is displayed on the main surface too .
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The key features of
the Absolute piano :
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Optimization : even if the Absolute Piano is
small - if you compare to its competitors - it is based on a
very optimized high quality sound bank and it sounds fantastic.
Yes, small can be better ... sometime. This piano was sampled on 4 velocity layers with up
to 12 second length.
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Creativity :
the Absolute Piano features a sound sculpture filter
specifically designed for that pîano. It is in fact
a 3 bands powerful shelving filter tuned to 'sculpt' the
piano timber. You can create warm or old piano, ragtime or classical
sound easily.
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Effects :
in every plug-in you have a set of effects, but, the
Absolute Piano has specific ones, designed only for this piano. The reverberator
is warm, very powerful and will not add any ringing
resonance. The chorus will greatly
emulate the piano bar style, and the peak boost will add an
incredible punch in the piano attack, while compressing and
limiting at the same time! Great for rock and pop styles...the
multi-tap echo can be sync to the tempo.
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Background :
the
Absolute piano is a real simulator, and you can add pre-recorded
hi-quality background sounds, from restaurant, or concert
ambience to weird forest, thunder, sea, mountain wind, snow! Fun to play it is
a must for adding some emotions while you play, try it, you'll
re-discover your favorite pieces!
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Synthesis : with
its very high quality filter, low pass, high pass, band pass,
and notch, with a constant gain and saturation, resonance and
self
oscillation, and also the volume envelope, you have access to the real
synthesizers endless possibilities. It is even possible to
emulate the sound of ... a violin! Most competitors are just
using a basic one pole filter to free some CPU power. With the Absolute Piano, you can
really create new sounds!
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Stand alone,
FULL VST compatible version in the same install.
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