The Absolute Piano really exploit the Virtual Piano concept by adding specific and innovative possibilities. With its filters you can sculpt the piano timber and produce a large number a piano sounds from the same base. Everything is specifically designed to manipulate and play piano sounds.
Absolute Piano : Yamaha C7. This piano has been sampled from a huge Yamaha C7 piano. It has a typical powerful bright sound, in the style of Elton John, that suits perfectly with all the Modern music style, like rock, pop, dream music. It was standing in he back of the the shop, just tuned and fixed for a concert and ready to move to the concert room. I spent the week-end in August 2006 to sample it with my Laptop and a pair of Oktava condenser microphones. I think that these microphones gave it this typical aggressive sound, compared with the Bosendorfer I sampled the same day, but with a couple of Ruban microphones. After that I've had re-worked the sample during 2-3 month and re-sampled it around 8 times (digitally) to have a perfect velocity switches, and a very optimized sound-bank.
Polyphony : the Absolute piano can play 128 notes simultaneously!
New sound-bank, all the new Pianos were recorded in Summer 2006 when the piano shop was closed. The piano sound is deeply compressed (lossless) to be small (280mb only). The compression is not audible.
The reverb has been enhanced, it is as good as any professional one. No ringing resonances like with most sample player around. Also there are 2 vu-meters for left and right precise view instead of one for the mix of the two channels together in V2. The interface is clearer, the license is displayed on the main surface too.
