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Product Supreme Pianos
Developer Sound Magic
Primary Type Piano / Keys
Price (MSRP) €199 (intro)
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Supreme Pianos

Supreme Pianos contains 3 grand pianos: Blue Water Piano, Red Wings Piano and Mini Piano. It uses physical modeling technology designed to achieve the same reality level as sampling while keeping the CPU usage low. In order to do this, Supreme Pianos uses a series of technologies that Sound Magic describes as "groundbreaking", including Harmony Rendering Engine and Multi-Dimension Vector Synthesis.

The basic idea of Supreme Pianos comes from 3D graphic rendering. It uses Physical modeling to shape the sound's "skeleton" of the piano, and then maps a series of harmony components on to the skeleton to achieve an authentic sound.

Supreme Pianos does not rely on sampling, has a small memory footprint and low CPU usage making it ideal for live performances. Even on a Pentium III 533MHz system, it could work great while running under heavy duty. And on today's quad core system, Supreme Pianos could maintain CPU usage unnoticeable, according to Sound Magic.

Features:

  • 256 stages / 40Hz Harmony Rendering Engine adds reality to the sound of physical modeling piano.
  • Multi-Dimension Vector Synthesis technology reveals the power of Sound Magic's "next generation" Physical Modeling technology that is 20X faster than traditional physical modeling algorithm.
  • Proprietary Real Dynamic Response System accurately represents real grand piano's non-linear dynamic response.
  • Full repedalling feature accurately recreates the behavior between pedal up and pedal down.
  • Proprietary 264-strings Sympathetic Resonance System reproduces comprehensive Sympathetic Resonances of a true Grand Piano.
  • Optimal Coding for multi-core CPU leads to extreme low CPU usage and RAM usage. The CPU usage even lower than a sample player.
  • Optimised for most MIDI keyboards.
  • Small Size, Total 335MB for 3 Pianos.
  • Full MIDI learn and automation.
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Sound Magic updates Supreme Pianos to v1.15 3rd August 2009
Sound Magic updates Supreme Pianos to v1.1 14th July 2009
Sound Magic releases Supreme Pianos 17th June 2009

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By MeldaProduction
On 18th June 2009
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I was looking for a decent piano ever since. So logically then this comes up I immediately tried it, and these are my personal feelings about it.

First I like the sound. Unlinke Truepianos, which just seem so dull, or Pianoteq which IMHO has some weird phasing issues and the attack is just weird, this seems very good in all these matters.

This piano is one of the first, that felt good when I played it, and also it could easily fit the mix, which is in most cases a big problem (at least for me :) ).

So far the positives - now the negatives - first, for a piano made in Synthedit it is very expensive. The Synthedit problem follows - it has a very big unstable CPU and memory hit (unlike the description says). When I loaded it, it consumed all of the CPU for about 10 seconds, so the playback stopped. That doesn't matter so much, thought 10 seconds of loading is quite a lot IMHO. But then when I played a few notes, the CPU consumption raised by 20-30% with no exception. That's too much for a piano sampler/synthesizer. I have AMD 64 3000+.

And there's more - the CPU impact raises a lot with decreasing latency. I was almost unable to work with it in 44kHz and 256 samples latency, it was ok in 1024 samples, but let's be honest, 1/44 second isn't really sufficient for realtime playing/recording.

I didn't talk about GUI and such stuff, since this was a big stopper for me. Pitty, I hoped I found the one :).

Generally in my opinion this could be a great piano, but to make it really professional, they should stop using synthedit and make something real. They have done great recording job, but this needs some serious programming, which just isn't there. Well, I'm back with my ordinary piano from Cubase Halion One, which still sounds best, but not really ideal.

PS. There is no CPU consumption field in the ratings, so I put it into stability.
 
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Product: Supreme Pianos
Developer: Sound Magic
Type: Piano / Keys
Price: €199 (intro)
OS: Windows
Formats: VST
Supreme Pianos contains 3 grand pianos: Blue Water Piano, Red Wings Piano and Mini Piano. It uses physical modeling technology designed to achieve the same reality level as sampling while keeping the CPU usage low. In order to do this, Supreme Pianos uses a series of technologies that Sound Magic describes as "groundbreaking", including Harmony Rendering Engine and Multi-Dimension Vector Synthesis. The basic idea of Supreme Pianos comes from 3D graphic rendering. It uses Physical modeling to shape the sound's "skeleton" of the piano, and then maps a series of harmony compon... [more]

 
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