Introducing the Rhodes V8 and V8 Pro
There are countless digital keyboard instruments and plugins striving to emulate the legendary (Fender) Rhodes sound. You will be hard-pressed to find a digital piano that doesn’t feature at least… Read more »
Tag: virtual piano
Prepared Pianos and IRCAM Prepared Piano 2
Musicians will often customize their instruments in order to create a new sound palette with which to work. However, the piano is possibly the best instrument for such experimentation as… Read more »
New Product: Augmented GRAND PIANO from Arturia
French music software and hardware developer Arturia has released Augmented Grand Piano. This intriguing new software package blends high-quality piano samples with modern synthesizer-based sounds. The result is a unique… Read more »
Pure Upright: A New iOS Piano App
Pure Upright brings a professional, multi-sampled upright piano to your iPhone or iPad. This is the second iOS piano app to be released by German-based developers e-instruments — the first… Read more »
Early Piano Actions and The Oeser
The Oeser is a new virtual piano from the Dutch software house Key Instruments (part of Key Productions). It is also their first virtual piano. Key Productions (the parent company)… Read more »
Struck Grand — The Fine Art of Piano Abuse
We all know about prepared pianos — pianos with their sound altered by the introduction of foreign objects such as screws, bolts, tacks etc. We are also aware that you… Read more »
Piano Colors — a musical paintbox
Piano Colors is an extraordinary new library of grand piano sounds combined with enhanced modulation and processing capabilities. It delivers sounds, textures, and musical patterns, the like of which you… Read more »
Sampleson Launches Reed106 Virtual Piano
Software house Sampleson has just released Reed106, with the strapline “The first ever-changing modelled electric piano”. This is a virtual instrument. It comes as either a VST or AU plugin… Read more »
New Product: Synchron Bösendorfer 280VC
The Vienna Symphonic Library team has just added the Bösendorfer 280VC to its Synchron Series of sample libraries. Bösendorfer market the 280VC as the ultimate concert grand—“VC” stands for Vienna… Read more »
Sampleson Releases Klavee — a Virtual Klaviphon
The Klaviphon is a small, budget electric piano. It was manufactured in Czechoslovakia between 1958 and 1966 by the state run National Company Harmonika Hořovice and by the Rieger Kloss… Read more »