Tag Archives: Piano

4Front E-Piano ~ Freeware DX-7 Piano Plugin

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4Front E-Piano is a small single sound instrument without any settings that reproduces a timbre, which is similar to DX-7 type e-piano. It is available as VSTi for Windows, and as an AudioUnit, VSTi and RTAS for Mac (see enclosed readme file).

This instrument is small on memory and CPU usage and was found useful by many users and software developers as a plug&play e-piano module, which does not require any configuration or adjustment.

Though this goes without saying for professional users, I still had a frequent question on how to use this plugin from people, who are not familiar with this technolog. One should note, that to make use of this software a plugin hosting software is necessary, such as Topten Cantabile software. A MIDI keyboard is also preferred, as it is something almost essential to create a computer music these days.

There is also 4Front R-Piano, which replicates a different type of E-Piano.

www.yohng.com/software/epiano

mypiano_jukebox ~ MIDI Piano Player

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mypiano_jukebox is a mypiano_chung bass.dll based MIDI jukebox, MIDI files & folder player with a virtual acoustic piano recorded on Isabelle’s upright piano, with a smartphone . The sounds, reverb, chorus and volume are variable with the number of played notes and the sustain switch, just like a real piano.

  • Added a public domain Kawai, City piano and Steinway samples.
  • harp0 – harp9 + piano shape selection.
  • uses mp3 samples.
  • easy to customize.
  • written in freebasic.

sourceforge.net/projects/mypiano-jukebox

Midi Sheet Music ~ Cross-platform MIDI Player

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Midi Sheet Music is a free program that plays MIDI music files while highlighting both the piano keys and sheet music notes. Works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux Ubuntu.

sourceforge.net/projects/midisheetmusic

Strobe Tuner ~ Windows Stroboscopic Tuning

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Musical instrument strobe tuner; a real-time emulation.

Features:
  • Configurable up to 12 wheel, 9 octave.
  • 16.35 – 21,096 Hz (C0 – E10). Covers the full range of human hearing.
  • Configurable pitch and wheel count.
  • Many transpose (key) options.
  • Automatic and manual and gain control.
  • 60 FPS (with suitable computer).
  • Presets for single note, major, minor, and chromatic scales.
  • Adjustable 440 Hz.
  • Complete command line control.
  • Simulated sine waves for test and or debugging.
  • Actual low level emulation, no FFT used.
  • Coded in C.
  • Harmonic mode.

sourceforge.net/projects/strobetuner
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_tuner#Strobe_tuners

Playtime ~ 10 Toy Instrument Plugin

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Playtime is a FREE premium VST created by Daniel of Reflekt Audio. Playtime consist if 10 different toy instruments that range from a desktop drum kit with a few toms and a hi hat, to a toy keyboard, a toy banjo, and more! The Playtime VST plugin has multiple blend-able microphones that the user can blend together to create one overall tone. Each instrument was sampled from real toys so you can bet on a unique and interesting toy like sound.

https://reflektaudio.com/playtime/

Piano One ~ Yamaha C7 Concert Grand VST

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Piano One comes from the Yamaha C7 concert grand, a true workhorse in the professional piano world, appearing on famous concert stages, in international competitions and in prestigious music events throughout the world.

By utilizing the Sound Magic Hybrid Modelling Engine, Piano One offers both the Realistic Sound of Sampling and the Playability of Modelling. Hybrid Modelling provides an instantaneous feeling – no delay – and a truer and richer sound than can be created with either sampling or modelling alone.

  • VST on Windows (32Bit&64Bit) and VST and AU on Mac (32Bit&64Bit)
  • Neo Piano Hybrid Modeling Engine (Limited Features)
  • Yamaha C7 Sound
  • Note duration is limited within 18 seconds
  • Some features are limited such as Sympathetic Resonance and noises

neovst.com/piano-one

Entropy ~ Advanced Piano Tuning

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The idea behind entropy-based tuning is very simple: Since entropy is a measure of disorder, we expect the entropy of a well-tuned piano to be lower than the entropy of an instrument out of tune. A first test with real data led to the surprising result that a simple entropy-based iteration algorithm produces a reasonably-looking tuning curve. 

Now we present a software which allows everyone to evaluate this new tuning method. With this software we do not aim to compete with high-end tuning devices and professional aural tuners, rather we would like to demonstrate that a single extremely simple formula can generate an acceptable tuning.

piano-tuner.org/

AGS ~ Advanced Gtk+ Sequencer

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Advanced GTK+ Sequencer is intended to use for music composition. It features a piano roll, as well a synth, matrix editor, drum machine, soundfont2 player, mixer and an output panel.

It’s designed to be highly configurable, you may add effects to its effect chain, add or remove audio channels/pads.

You may set up a fully functional network of engines, therefore exists a link editor for linking audio lines.

In conjunction with ags you need a realtime kernel and alsa support. `ags` uses conditional locks to keep several threads in sync that’s why you need at least a preemptible kernel.

Features:
  • save or open Advanced Gtk+ Sequencer XML files with XPath support
  • add or remove audio engines with adjustable audio channels and pads
  • link channels with property dialog
  • output panel, mixer, drum and matrix sequencer, soft synth and audio file player
  • piano roll with basic notation editing supporting copy & paste
  • adjustable BPM
  • LADSPA, DSSI and Lv2 support
  • export to WAV, FLAC, OGG and others
  • multiple sinks like Pulseaudio, JACK, ALSA and OSS
  • automation editor
  • waveform editor with copy & paste
  • capture sound with AgsAudiorec machine
  • MIDI instrument input
  • import/export to Standard MIDI Files
  • OSC content format support
  • OSC server for remote control and monitoring

nongnu.org/gsequencer/

sourceforge.net/projects/ags/

Spitfire Labs ~ Series Of Virtual Instruments

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An infinite series of free software instruments, made by musicians and sampling experts in London, for anyone, anywhere. Presented in our own plug-in, they are easy to use, and compatible with any DAW. And in case you missed it — they’re all free.

https://labs.spitfireaudio.com/

jack-keyboard ~ Virtual Keyboard For JACK MIDI

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jack-keyboard is a virtual MIDI keyboard – a program that allows you to send JACK MIDI events ( 😉 play using your PC keyboard). It’s BSD-licensed. User interface is GTK-based.

jack-keyboard

sourceforge.net/projects/jack-keyboard