Three New Pianos Beta's

Aries · Post by **Aries** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 5:12 am

<a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.planetz.com/Pulsar/files/dev ... .ZIP"><img src="/forums/images/file_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" File"> File</a> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Price ($USD): 0 <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Type: Synth _____________________________________ Three new experimental piano synths.

The two pianos, UprightPiano1Beta & UprightPiano2Beta have as the name suggests a Upright piano quality, with piano two having a brighter quality than piano one. The third HonkytonkPiano1 being a more detuned upright.

It's as before velocity sensitive, has a mono output and no controls (attack, decay
and release are preset).

So set to maximum polyphony, add some reverb and play away.

Keep in mind these are a Beta SDK release, comments and suggestions for improvements?.

Enjoy its FREE.

JLS · Post by **JLS** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 6:40 am

Hi Aries

Sound is excelent

Very Thanks

P.S. - please add volume normalization
( sound is very silence )

alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:25 pm

It has a component of the piano sound, the "sweet" part, but lacks the metallic string sound that is the other component for a more realistic acoustic sound. If you find out how to model that part too it could become a great device.

medusa13 · Post by **medusa13** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:39 am

I haven't tried the devices (I'm without my Scope system at the moment), but since the foundation is already there, wouldn’t it be cool to take these devices further and make some kind of electric piano device, kind of Lounge Lizard?
I'm not a developer, nor do I have access to SDK, so my guess is that it won’t be easy, but as I said, it seems the base is there.
Just a thought.

Martin

sharc · Post by **sharc** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:33 pm

On 2006-01-23 04:39, medusa13 wrote:
...since the foundation is already there, wouldn’t it be cool to take these devices further and make some kind of electric piano device, kind of Lounge Lizard?.

That would be cool. A decent EP would be something new and possibly a valuable addition to the platform.

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:47 pm

If you are looking for a really new sounding Electric Piano, which takes FM DX200 sounds even further, check out Celmos Bluewave. This is a very underated device IMHO. I use GS3 Orchestra w/ Scope so my EPs are all covered very nicely thanks to Scarbee, and FM Encyclopedia. But Celmo sent me an expanded version with 16 voice polyphony that is the prettiest EP that I use. It flows like electric water w/o all that added chorusing most presets seem to be bathed in.

Strength Through Superior DSPs,

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:46 am

not that I want to divert the viewers.. full respect to the original post.. but I did a rhodes clone for modIII a while back, which sounds quite decent to me, even compared to the nord electro and scarbee samples. I can assure you it's the best Rhodes emu for the Scope platform, for the time being.
Check it out if you're interested:

http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... forum=15&4

[ This Message was edited by: kensuguro on 2006-01-29 02:49 ]

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:24 pm

Personnaly i prefer this one :

http://www.planetz.com/Pulsar/files/mod ... ythree.zip

[ This Message was edited by: marcuspocus on 2006-01-29 13:24 ]

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:09 pm

These are both quite unique, but I need my polyphony. Let's get back to the acoustic emu for a minute, sorry I tend to drift. This by itself is missing a minute component of string as Alfonso so acurately described, however the sweet spot is truly beautiful when added to my Vintaudio Upright samples. I hate adding chorusing to an acoustic instrument but this dev. adds a great sweet natural detuning effect to my upright that I use on songs that don't need a Grand Piano, but rather saloon/gunsmoke sound. So I thank you sir for a dev. that I now use everytime I play my uprights.

Scope Rules The DSP World,

_________________
Jimmy V.

P.S. Kensuguru, thought you did a fine job by the way. I mix it with Scarbee W.E.P., and R.S.P. for the fact that I am mixing Scope more and more with samples now for really unique added dimensions. I'm starting to develop quite a special sounding live rig.You can add FX to the devices and leave the samples clean, or just detune them slightly. You truly are a MODIII master too. The way you guys create things in Modular is nothing short of shocking.

[ This Message was edited by: scope4live on 2006-02-01 19:20 ]

Aries · Post by **Aries** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:13 am

On 2006-02-01 19:09, scope4live wrote:
These are both quite unique, but I need my polyphony. Let's get back to the acoustic emu for a minute, sorry I tend to drift. This by itself is missing a minute component of string as Alfonso so acurately described, however the sweet spot is truly beautiful when added to my Vintaudio Upright samples. I hate adding chorusing to an acoustic instrument but this dev. adds a great sweet natural detuning effect to my upright that I use on songs that don't need a Grand Piano, but rather saloon/gunsmoke sound. So I thank you sir for a dev. that I now use everytime I play my uprights.

Scope Rules The DSP World,

_________________
Jimmy V.

P.S. Kensuguru, thought you did a fine job by the way. I mix it with Scarbee W.E.P., and R.S.P. for the fact that I am mixing Scope more and more with samples now for really unique added dimensions. I'm starting to develop quite a special sounding live rig.You can add FX to the devices and leave the samples clean, or just detune them slightly. You truly are a MODIII master too. The way you guys create things in Modular is nothing short of shocking.

[ This Message was edited by: scope4live on 2006-02-01 19:20 ]

Thanks everybody for your comments.

Remember these are just experiments in the SDK and are released in Beta as such. Full devices should improve on them further as my experiments progress, there may be EP piano's as well. I do not know at present how to increase polyphony beyond 16.

Aries

[ This Message was edited by: Aries on 2006-02-02 02:22 ]

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:00 am

Since they make my uprights sound so good, I await further strokes of genius from you sir. I can describe the sound like this; my left handed comps and chords while I solo, seem to be alive and well glued together. Strange explanation, but that's what I hear.Thank You again Aries. Your Olympic name suits you very well, for you make me sound like King Leonidus of Sparta. Hero of Thermopolae, 491 B.C.

erminardi · Post by **erminardi** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:09 am

On 2006-02-02 01:13, Aries wrote:
I do not know at present how to increase polyphony beyond 16.

Aries

Try to ask directly to Creamware: the right reference for EP poliphony is the B-2003, that features full poly independant from SFP bar settings.