Version 4.5 makes some under-the-hood changes to the audio engine and various other tweaks including the addition of the new Condition parameter, a really handy slider that lets you ‘age’ a piano on-the-fly. The appeal of an accurately modelled piano that uses barely any space on your computer is clear: you don’t have to worry about eating up valuable hard drive space on laptops or carrying round additional drives to host libraries. This wisdom was challenged, arguably even disproven, when French developer Modartt came up with Pianoteq, a very different kind of virtual piano that really did sound like a real piano while having a tiny footprint of just over 20MB.Ĭore Technology The key to Pianoteq’s believability is in its physical-modelling technology and some presumably terrifyingly complex mathematics and algorithms which are hidden from the user. Guitars, brass and pianos are probably the most obvious examples of instruments that have been successfully re-created in software form using large, multi-GB core libraries to capture the many nuances and intricacies of their character.
Conventional wisdom has been that the only way to emulate some instruments in a believable way is to use samples as the basis of the virtual instrument.
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