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version 4.2 upgrade for all pianos.

In this upgrade I introduce a new revolutionary concept that will be developed in the v5. If you purchased one of my pianos before, you must to upgrade and listen the new sound. The idea is to emulate not only the sound of the piano by using a quality soundbank and adding real time specific effects on it, but truly emulate the resonance of the piano from the inside.

I explain, a piano is a mono instrument and it is a percussive instrument, the hammer knock the sting, and most of the quality of the sound is made by what we call the table of harmony and the inter-resonances between the stings. I decided to create an emulator of these features. Not only the sound is greatly enhanced and more natural, but also it gives more power to spread the stereo and change the timber of the piano itself without having to deal with issues at the recording with microphones nulling each others because they are too close or with the wrong angle...

Right now, there is no outside control available for the user, it is only an inside setup. Each piano needs to be tuned from the inside so that the stereo, the resonance is sounding great. You do not have to worry about this, I do it for you. In the future I plan to give access to some parameters so that the user can change the overall stereo, resonance and sound of the piano with new never seen powerful parameters.

In these version I still keep a stereo sound bank, but in the future it is possible that I use only a mono sting impulse and then recreate the trail of the sound algorithmically. The tests I am doing are giving amazing results, with a sound that is more 'alive' than any expensive 'Italian or German' pianos, and which fits under 500 MB!

I have updated some demos with the new piano engine. You can compare and listen here

What's new in version 4?

• New Hammer simulation option.

• New Tonal simulation option.

• New Sympathic resonance emulation.

• New reverberator, using a combination of Schroeder reverb algorithm with a FDN network type of reverb.

• A new host for Standalone use, now you can play piano rolls and record them directly

• New sequencer and Midi tools to play with the piano even without a keyboard.

• New preset bank manager

• New enhanced sound, using crossfade and overlaps to progressively pass from one velocity layer to another.

• New documentation.

What the Absolute Piano can do for you?

The Absolute Piano concept is to bring to the pianist a lightweight yet fantastic sounding piano emulation, where you have plethora of options to enjoy playing your favorite pieces, but using today's technology for a new exciting musical experience.

• Play as a VSTi in your favorite host on Windows only.

• Play as a Stand Alone application powered by Minihost

• Can play your Midi piano piece and save them as WAV files. You can use every Absolute Piano as a Midi to Wav converter.

• Add background sounds to have the feeling of playing in a restaurant, in a forest, in the middle of the Ocean, on the top of a mountain.

• You can record what you play. No need of a complicated setup.

• Absolute Pianos ave unique Simulation features so that, based on the hi-quality studio recording of a each specific brand and models, you can tweak them and destroy the sound, make them sound weird, used, old, or sounding like a violin?

• Have an extensive range of very high quality multi FX. Each of them has been specially designed to be used with piano, from the complex and smooth reverberator to the exclusive Peek Punch that makes all pianos sounding as punchy as Elton John playing on "I'm Still Standin'"!

• Absolute Pianos sounds AMAZING, just check our pages and listen the difference, even huge pianos doing +2 GB in size cannot play the Moonlight Sonata from Beethoven with that level of detail and expressivity.

• Absolute Pianos are loading in memory in less than 10 seconds on a regular computer.

• Absolute Pianos are running on Netbooks and small laptops. And are sounding the same! Bring your piano with you in that Island and play in front of the sunset!

• You can play piano using the MIDI,  with the mouse, or even with your computer keyboard (in Stand Alone mode only)

• In stand alone mode when the piano play a midi file, you can see what is playing and you can play on the top of it. You can play 4 hands with Absolute Piano playing with you, and record what you play with nothing else than the Absolute Piano.

Polyphony : the Absolute piano can play 128 notes simultaneously!