Pianos

Pianos is the third plug-in that uses a set of waveforms/samples as the main oscillator source combined with a powerful synthesizer- and effect section which processes these waveforms.

Are you one of those who own a number of VST plugins or Audio Units, but you're not satisfied with the piano sounds in these. They're either boring or the piano sounds don't stand out.

You're looking for something more exciting but still piano sounds, then let us recommend Pianos, one of our ambient (piano) plugins.

The plug-in features hundreds of piano recordings and layers which are combined to create a collection of pianos sounds which we're very satisfied with.

Many of the presets follow our tradition of sounding "ambient", but this plug-in offers a variety of piano sounds. There are traditional acoustic pianos, grand pianos, electric pianos and synth pianos of many kinds.

Pianos includes 256 presets and you may expand the plug-in with soundpacks. Three optional soundpacks are available for purchase.

Pianos plays hundreds of waveforms/samples and processes these using the plug-in's synth engine and its advanced effects processor, which has 133 different effect modes.

If you're looking for a piano plug-in which contains over one thousand (!!!) piano presets, then Pianos is the right thing for you. And as if that wasn't enough, you may adjust the synth and effect parameters to create your own piano sounds.

Pianos includes 256 presets. When you feel ready for more, then you may buy additional "soundpacks", which includes a new set of piano waveforms/samples and 256 new presets to explore. Three additional soundpacks are available.

There are 133 effect modes, including crossfading effects and layered effects. The effects section features a large set of filter banks, a resonator, flanger, reverb, pitch shift, a sub oscillator, amplitude modulation, distortion, plus layered and crossfading versions of these effects.

Crossfading effects means that the plug-in can alternate between effects. Many of the presets make use of this feature.

The sound of the filter banks can be adjusted. The effects (except the reverb) may be controlled by an LFO with 7 different waveforms and two variations of each (14 in total). The reverb includes a lowpass filter for realistic damping. The plug-in has a dedicated ensemble section and a built-in stereo delay.

The number of voices that you'll get from Pianos and our series of hybrid plugins is only dependant on the power of your CPU. But you may set a voice limit, if you want to, for example maximum 8 or 16 voices or any number.

The plug-in features an easy-to-use "learn mode" to support MIDI controllers. That makes it easy for you to, say, draw a waveform in your sequencer and then let it control any of the knobs. Or hook up a a cheap external MIDI controller and control the plug-in with it.

Patches are organized into groups and they are selected using two drop down menus (one for the group and one for the patch itself). The drop down menus make it easy for you to browse through the patch collection.

If you download a new soundpack, then you just have to run the installer and then the new presets appear as new patch groups (new menu choices).

Each voice has its own resonant filter, which can be controlled by an envelope or with velocity. You may adjust the waveform pitch and there's a traditional amp envelope there too. A manual (PDF) is included.

Limitations:

￭ 30 days trial. ￭ The trial gets silent after 3 minutes.