Audiophile musicians will love this.
You know how most virtual pianos are based on samples from real pianos? Well, Pianoteq decided to take a different approach, by simulating an actual physical piano. As in, their software simulates all the reverberations, the strings, the hammers, the cabinet. Everything. No samples. Which means everything is adjustable. You can simulate the piano tuned in different temperaments, with the lid open, closed, or half-open, the length of the piano, etc.
It’s amazing what you can do with technology when you stop being lazy with it.
People have done that with simpler wind-only instruments like flutes in the past, but its extremely time consuming to develop and instrument specific. I think this is the first I’ve heard of someone trying something as acoustically complex as a piano.
lazy?
I’m not sure it’s lazy when the CPU power for stuff like this hasn’t been available at a low enough price for more than a few years.
Forwarded the link to my gf, who has a quite nice Yamaha… bet she’ll be into it!
=darwin
PS – Hey dan..