NUSofting Peti 1.0 Released!

[liqih]

yes it it!

later today I'll send it to selected betatesters,
thanks to everybody who helped me in this "ultra focused" project,

below the press release written with wytherabbyt, thanks man!


BTW, stay tuned, other suff coming this summer,

ciao,

Luigi



NUSofting are pleased to announce their newest softsynth, called Peti, for VSTi-compatible Windows hosts.

In the tradition of the company's successful synth HarpTime, Peti is designed to emulate a family of
real musical instruments commonly used in folk and ethnic music.
This time, NUSofting have concentrated on a flexible and accurate emulation of the family of instruments
that includes the harmonium and the accordion.

Peti is a unique VSTi which uses hybrid FM synthesis technology, and it was developed primarily
to emulate the sounds of the Harmonium, a member of the Reed Organ family,
which is also known as the "pump organ". The Harmonium, in its smaller form,
is widely used in north Indian music, and its full, sweet sound is often used
in in pop and rock music, but Peti is not limited to this instrument alone.

Peti is also capable of emulating a wide variety of reed organ variants,
and can model timbres which resemble the many instruments in this family,
ranging from from accordions to pipe organs,
and even the famous melodica often used in reggae dub music.

Peti was designed to allow the user complete control over a simulated Bellows mechanism,
with 11 different modes providing 'automatic' or 'manual' pumping, with appropriate modulation
of the sound-generation engine's parameters.

It also features two separate 'reed bank' simulators, allowing it to create the widest possible range
of reed organ timbres via its sophisticated hybrid-synthesis system.
Peti's sound engine is also capable of emulating other key features of the Harmonium,
including the body resonance of the instrument itself, the noise of air in the bellows and chambers,
a 'musette' tremolo feature, and 'key coupling',
which traditionally allows a single note to trigger two voices.

Peti also provides full MIDI Learn capability for each of its controls.

A demo version is available for download at http://nusofting.liqihsynth.com,
which includes a preset bank and manual in HTML format.

FEATURES:

Reed Banks 1 & 2 Controls
There are two Reed Banks modelled in Peti, with the same parameters available independently for each Bank.
These Reed Banks are responsible for the basic timbre of the instrument.
However Peti has been modelled such that the two Reed Banks are not identical,
and swapping settings between Bank 1 and Bank 2 may change the overall sound.

The Parameters available for each Reed Bank are:

- Brighter: Adds more high frequencies in the timbre.
- Harmonics: Two different harmonic 'flavours' for each Reed Bank.
- Modulation: This parameter controls the overall amount of harmonics added.

Global Controls
Resonance: This parameter sets how much physical resonance is modelled to simulate
the wooden body of the Harmonium.

Chorus: This parameter controls the effect which is often called 'musette' or 'tremolo'
in accordian terminology.

Ratio: This parameter changes the pitch difference between the two Reed Banks.

Breath: This parameter controls the amount of 'air noise'.

Keys: This parameter controls the amount of keyboard noise simulated,

Volume: This parameter controls the output level of Peti.

Pitch: This parameter controls the master fine-tuning setting.

Velocity Sensivity: This parameter allows you to adjust the instrument's response to MIDI velocity.

MaxVoices: This parameter sets the polyphony of Peti, from 1 (mono legato) to 16.

Keyboard Coupler: This control emulates a mechanical 'coupler' which is found in some Harmoniums.
It causes two notes to be played simultaneously by one key,
with an interval which may be set to an octave, a fourth, or a fifth.

Scale Changer: This control shifts the keyboard pitch up to 5 semitones up or down.
This allows the player to change key but retain the same fingering, e.g. to play Eb major scale
all on white keys.