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sbj · Post by **sbj** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 12:39 pm

Vospi wrote:Skerratt London Piano VST by bigcat Instruments

Is that the same, but wrapped in a VSTi?
People do complain on a latency problem, though (which is not uncommon for free pianos, unfortunately...)

I just checked in MuLab and it is reporting 0 (zero) latency.

Vospi · Post by **Vospi** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 12:48 pm

It won't matter at all if samples have silence not trimmed properly. That's what I meant.

sbj · Post by **sbj** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 12:52 pm

Vospi wrote:It won't matter at all if samples have silence not trimmed properly. That's what I meant.

Got it. As you were

bigcat1969 · Post by **bigcat1969** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 4:10 pm

Ask and you shall receive (sometimes when I'm feeling energetic anyway). Here are some tighter versions of this cool upright for Kontakt and Maize stand alone VSTis.
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2 ... ianos.html

Vospi · Post by **Vospi** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 4:20 pm

Oh, so the City Piano also came from you. I did the cutting there, too, if you remember

Thank you for your work!

bigcat1969 · Post by **bigcat1969** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 4:29 pm

Yup you cut the clean version version for me. Thanks so much! Less noise more tightly (or something).
I also cut the Iowa Piano myself, so that should be low latency.
So at least three free pianos that are fairly tightly cut.

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:56 am

bigcat1969 wrote:Ask and you shall receive (sometimes when I'm feeling energetic anyway). Here are some tighter versions of this cool upright for Kontakt and Maize stand alone VSTis.
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2 ... ianos.html

Thank you very much, Kung Krille and bigcat1969, for your work with the Skerratt piano!

It may only have one velocity layer, but it's got oodles of character that you don't get with the perfectionist commercial libraries and with Pianoteq, for example.

Great fun and inspiring to play, and in blues, stride and boogie the lack of p and pp layers are not that critical.

Thanks again!

/Joachim

andrew732 · Post by **andrew732** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 3:15 am

If anybody else is looking for a free piano, the best one I've ever found is CVPiano, which is a VST and standalone, and as of today, is still available from Tascam, even though I believe they went out of the software business several years ago:

http://www.ftptascam.com/media/downloads/CVPiano.zip

Jafo · Post by **Jafo** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 3:34 am

+1 to CVPiano. Even with Pianoteq and a highly-scripted homebrewed sfz of the "Splendid Piano," I keep turning back to this gem. Check out the tweak guide here.

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 4:09 am

andrew732 wrote:If anybody else is looking for a free piano, the best one I've ever found is CVPiano, which is a VST and standalone, and as of today, is still available from Tascam, even though I believe they went out of the software business several years ago:

http://www.ftptascam.com/media/downloads/CVPiano.zip

Only for PC, it seems. No Kontakt version?

/Joachim

Jafo · Post by **Jafo** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:38 am

Spitfire31 wrote:
andrew732 wrote:If anybody else is looking for a free piano, the best one I've ever found is CVPiano, which is a VST and standalone, and as of today, is still available from Tascam, even though I believe they went out of the software business several years ago:

http://www.ftptascam.com/media/downloads/CVPiano.zip
Only for PC, it seems. No Kontakt version?

/Joachim

Yes. No. (Laconic, eh?)

CVPiano works by "spectral morphing" a single velocity layer. I don't know the exact details, but you can get much the same effect by modulating filter and envelope parameters (especially cutoff frequency and release time) by velocity. This gives you a great deal of expressiveness (loud and soft sound different) while avoiding velocity layer transitions (since there aren't any). It's remarkably easy in sfz; no clue about Kontakt (and given its cost, I doubt I ever will).

Free simple upright piano