New Necromare plug-ins
Necromare has released some more free sample-based VST instruments for Windows.
What can I say I love building instruments. I think it’s part of being a composer, to finally make the sounds you need and want. I keep coming up with ideas for instruments and there seems to be no end. I already have 50 plus most in the testing stages. Looks like I will be releasing them well into next year.
New Necromare plug-ins
- The Panning Piano – Simple piano that automatically pans left and right slowly as you play. Good for filing out a mix. The last octave includes some piano screeches.
- Piano Harp – Imagine if you played the piano like a harp? What would it sound like? It would sound like this VST great sound for mystical or romantic moods. Included in the last octave are Gliss samples for effect.
- Simple Acoustic Guitar – Straight Foward guitar. Good for picking or sketch work.
- Soft Mallet Xylophone – The xylophone played with a soft mallet. Velocity sensitive over 4 octaves.
- Toys – Toy Piano, a small scale piano with a tiny sound + an electronic children’s piano with baby xylophones instrument.
- VL-1 Drum – Drum sounds from the Casio VL-1 keyboard/calculator.
- Zeboo Drum Kit – Acoustic drum kit, GM Mapped. The last octaves are samples of Zeboo himself!
- Lucivier – The keyboard produces a celesta like tone while pipes produce flute like sounds at the same time. The bottom octave and the last are the sounds produced by using the three pedals on the bottom.
- Kazoo – The only instrument you need little to no experience to play. So why not try a VST. It’s a bit harsh but fun to knock around with.
- Gamelan Music – Three Gamelan instruments: Reyong, Gangsa and Calung.
- Electric Bass – Simple Electric Bass, keys are velocity sensitive to give a short note on harder strikes. The upper octaves include a classic bass slide.
- Whale Song – Made from CC whale song files. Includes a whale purr, a trumpet, gentle underwater sound fx, and more.
- Sinsonic Drums – Like many old toys from the past some have actually been used by pros. Mattel Synsonic drums have been used by kraftwerk and others. This is a knock off the original pays tribute to our toys of a bygone era.
- Basement Piano – Most homes might have one of these lurking in there corner basement. An old upright that you may have learned to play piano on or liked to beat on. Either way this pleasant piano will convey a warm nostalgic sound for your next tune.
- Southern Banjo – For some there is nothing like the sound of a picked banjo. for others they can do without. This is an attempt to faithfully recreate the sound of a great instrument.
The Necromare instruments are available as freeware VST plug-ins for Windows PC.
More information: Necromare
Sound Magic launches Ruby Piano3D
Sound Magic launches Ruby Piano3D, a piano instrument for Windows.
“Ruby Piano3D achieves an entirely new level of realism and playability. Physical modeling is at the heart of the Ruby Piano3D sound, but both sampling and synthesis are incorporated to add to the realism. This combination creates a sound as authentic as monster sample libraries but at a smaller size and a much smaller CPU demand.
The Ruby Piano3D starts with the famous Yamaha sound, utilizing these powerful harmonics to create the unsurpassed authenticity and complexity that has long been a standard in concert halls around the world. Add complete 3D Audio Control to this Patented Hybrid Modeling Technology and the instrument becomes as versatile as it is realistic. Design your own piano from detailed physical parameters, such as hammer hardness and velocity, dynamic response, the interaction between different strings (sympathetic resonance), and even how much the soundboard reflects or absorbs sounds. Not a tweaker? Right out of the box, there are 8 pre-set modules to choose from.”
Features:
Multi-microphone positions enable users to mix between different microphone positions and create new sounds that easily fit into a mix.
Meticulous Dynamic Response controls enable users to adjust the dynamics of the piano, change the keyboard response, and achieve both realism and playability at the same time!
New! Our 264-string Sympathetic Resonance System adds beautiful harmonies to both pedal up and pedal down notes.
Ruby Piano3D is able to detect repeated notes and activate True Staccato Mode which precisely reproduces staccato notes.
Built-in professional Reverb Engine simulates resonances with environment and soundboard, adding extra realism to the sound.
Actual modeling and soft pedal samples vividly present the sound of three kinds of pedals.
The separate 3D Effect unit can place the piano into a real 3D space, adding realism to the whole sound.
Faster load times. Smaller hard drive footprint, less memory and less CPU usage.
Price: €99/$129
Loopbased releases Winter Warehouse Vol 1 and Black Piano Collection
Loopbased has yet another release of high quality sounds lined up for us, here´s what they have to say about it:
Winter Warehouse Vol 1 from Artis Audio
‘Winter Warehouse Vol 1’ from Artis Audio contains 5 superb quality Techno and House construction kits with awesome gems to ignite your sonic palettes in all of your musical productions. Supplied in a range of formats including WAV, Apple Loops, REX2 and MIDI for ultimate versatility.
The first volume in the ‘Winter Warehouse’ series kicks off with 5 construction kits, totaling 1,8GB in each format. From shuffled percussion grooves to power baselines, vocal fragments and fresh synth lines. more than 100 original royalty-free audio gems to awake the creative in your productions.
Price: € 41.15
http://www.loopbased.com/techno-minimal-loops/winter-warehouse-vol-1.html
Black Piano Collection from R-Loops
‘Black Piano Collection’ features over 800MB of multi-format loops designed for producers of Hip Hop, Pop, R&B, Dance, Soul and more. In addition to 100 professionally mixed piano loops, this pack also contains MIDI data for ultimate flexibility.
With ACID WAV, Apple Loops, Reason ReFill and REX2 files included, this collection of Urban and Pop piano loops will work with any modern sequencer, on any platform. MIDI files allow you to assign these melodic phrases to your favorite synth or sampler, allowing them to slot perfectly into your production.
Price: € 24.00
http://www.loopbased.com/hiphop-rnb-loops/black-piano-collection.html
KORG continues to do everything “mini” these days
Miniature digital piano microPIANO luxurious stylish design will deliver a presentation.
While the mini type piano, 61 key mini-sticks with a sense of play. Tones, including sound profound feeling of stereo sampled grand piano, organ and bells, toy piano and can play a rich tone.
In this video, just plays automatically hold the key phrase “short phrase sounds” and hear real guests also enjoy demonstrations like the music box tune.
How about some cool modified toy pianos
Five modified toy pianos circulate the gallery on five elevated wooden tracks. Each piano is equipped with small speakers to play amplified sounds picked up from conductive tape on the tracks. Each piano also contains small motors which intermittently spin to strike the toy pianos’ tone bars, adding acoustic elements to the overall soundtrack of the work. The installation also features five video monitors, which display images of five different real landscapes to compliment the abstract landscape of the wooden tracks. As the pianos begin to move around the gallery, these video landscapes are also populated by a seemingly infinite stream of mobile pianos. The video documentation composites footage of the installation in the gallery with footage shown on the monitors within the installation. This work was originally exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
Nice wooden knobs on the Pocket Piano
The Pocket Piano is a little boutique synth from Philadelphia based Critter and Guitari. For a little more than double the price of a Korg Monotron you can have this synth made of aluminum and wooden keys. Be sure to also check out their Kaleidoloop and Television Oscilloscope.
“The Pocket Piano is a mini electronic synthesizer with a big sound! The synthesizer features six unique modes: Vibrato Synth, Harmonic Sweeper, Two-Octave Arpeggiator, Octave Cascade, Mono FM Synth, FM Arpeggiator.” – critterandguitari.com
More from Roland – FP-7F Digital Piano
Roland sure has been extremely productive in bringing new gear to the market this past 12 months or so, here’s another one.
Roland U.S. has introduced the FP-7F Digital Piano, the latest addition to its FP series piano lineup.
The new FP-7F adds four new features:
- Roland’s SuperNATURAL Piano sound engine;
- an all-new PHA III Ivory Feel-S Keyboard with Escapement;
- a vocal mic input with companion Harmony effects; and
- an onboard looper.
The FP-7F is expected to ship in November with an MSRP of $2,199.00 for the black finish, and $2,299.00 for the white finish. The Roland FP-7F Digital Piano
Previously available only in their top-line digital pianos, the new FP-7F now includes Roland’s SuperNATURAL Piano engine.
The FP-7F also features Roland’s newly developed PHA III Ivory Feel-S Keyboard with Escapement. Additionally, every key is constructed of a special material that provides excellent moisture absorbency, with the white keys replicating the unique appearance and comfortable feel of real ivory keys.
For sing-along fun, the FP-7F provides a built-in microphone input, and the onboard Harmony engine lets users add duet, trio, and quartet harmonies to their own voice with effects derived from the BOSS VE-20 Vocal Processor. To create the harmony voices, the Harmony engine automatically detects the chords the user plays on the keyboard in real time.
Also onboard the FP-7F is a looper that lets a player record and play back their performance as a continuous audio loop. This is great for creating play-along backing, and unlimited overdubs can be added as well. Users can record the sounds of the FP-7F itself (including rhythm patterns from its large built-in library) and from a connected vocal microphone. In addition, loops can be saved as WAV files to USB flash media and used with the FP-7F’s USB Audio Key playback feature.
The FP-7F is available in black (FP-7F-BK) or white (FP-7F-WH) finishes, and comes standard with a DP-10 Damper Pedal. Options include the matching KSC-44 stand and the RPU-3 Triple Pedal Unit. The RPU-3 offers a true grand piano playing experience with three foot pedals, as well as advanced control of the FP-7F’s Harmony and Looper features.
Supernatural pianos
Roland’s inventing the ads for keyboards, NOT 
Supernatural seems somewhat of an overstatement
Roland’s new Digital Piano series are enhanced with Rolands breakthrough SuperNATURAL Piano technology. Three key elements are dramatically improved: velocity response, note decay, and key-range behavior. Where previous sample-based technology created coarse stair-step gaps in velocity and key range, and unnatural looping in note decay, SuperNATURAL bridges the gaps with perfectly smooth and natural three-dimensional sound and response.
40 Absolute Free Piano Lessons
I’m a piano teacher in real life, and I think people around the world should be able to have access to information that will teach them how to play the piano for themselves. There are no fees, or anything expected. I’m personally sick of the quick “play piano overnight” schemes. So I’m just a practical guy helping people learn how to play piano!
And here’s a lesson one (at the beginning the sound volume is quite low but pls show some understanding, first videos are always tough to create
Do we need any more virtual keyboards, according to CFA the answer is Yes
CFA-Sound has announced the release of E-Play Divorce, a virtual e-piano instrument.
How many piano libraries are out there? Right, tons of! So what’s the deal with the CFA E-Play Series? You don’t get similar sounding (e)-pianos, you get a whole lot more. Modern, fancy, extraordinary, neverheard or hard-to-achieve keys, suitable for various styles from Jazz to Electronica – all at your fingertips. Samples are wrapped in a small and beautiful plugins for your daw – get in touch!
Divorce – the dirty side of the e-play series. Divorce contains 25 unique e-pianos with a special dirty and nasty touch.
E-Play Divorce sample player
E-Play Divorce features
- Sampleplayer for PC-VST & Mac-AU.
- Contains 25 unique e-pianos.
- 32 bit precision.
- High quality interpolation.
- DFD (direct-from-disk-streaming).
- 32 voices.
- Built-in reverb.
- All e-pianos also included in NKI format.
- 1,99 GB content.
E-Play Divorce is available to purchase for PC and Mac (VST/AU) for the introductory price of 25 EUR. This offer is valid for the first 100 copies sold. The regular price is 40 EUR (prices exclude VAT).
More information: CFA-Sound
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