The piano is easily the most popular keyboard instrument ever created. My music collection would say otherwise, screaming 'synth!' all the way, but even if you were to add up every synth preset that's ever been recorded, I'm willing to bet that you wouldn't come close to the number of times the piano has been saved to tape, wax or hard drive.
Music-technology companies know this, of course, and have been offering us various sample-based solutions over the years promising to be the perfect piano substitute. Of late, I've looked at a pinnacle of hardware sampling in the form of the Nord Piano 3 and, just recently, I looked at Synthogy's latest Ivory collection, surely a new standard for detailed software sampling. Modartt, however, as well as realising the popularity of the piano, has always trodden a slightly different, non-sample-based path to piano perfection.
• Physically modelled virtual piano instrument
• 14 free instruments, plus 2 packs
• Up to 49 instruments available in total
• Effects Tremolo, Wah, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, etc.
• Octave stretching, hammer hardness, string length
• Up to five mics with adjustable positions
• VST, VST3, MX, Standalone
