You can easily create a honky-tonk piano from a concert grand by just tweaking a couple of knobs. Below that, you can go deeper in the sound generation process and tweak some parameters like the strings global tension (that’s the tuning), the dynamic range and hardness of the hammer, hammer position, unison detune (strings for individual notes detuned once against each other) and stretch tuning. There’s the Classic Upright, the Concert Grand, the Glass Grand, Intimate Grand, Jazz Upright, Metal Grand, Piano Bar Upright, Pop Grand and Pop Upright to choose from. The first one is “Action”, and here, you can select the Piano tuning, which basically lets you choose from different types of grand and upright pianos. We’ve got two main sections in this virtual instrument in order to shape the sound. First of all, this is some serious modeling! This new addition is so cool and so unexpected (at least to me), that I don’t know where to begin with. After we’ve checked the new organs ( B3 V and Farfisa V) from the new Arturia‘s V Collection 5, now, lets move on and check some of the cool features in the new Piano V virtual instrument.

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