4Front Technologies Releases TruePianos VST Instrument

4Front Technologies has announced the release of TruePianos, a new virtual piano VSTi based instrument on a combination of physical modeling, synthesis and sampling techniques. Using the best of what these individual technologies have to offer, TruePianos provides great playability by allowing itself to be easily adjusted to the combination of your unique playing style and the specific characteristics of your MIDI keyboard, instead of the other way around. It doesn't attempt to meticulously simulate existing pianos but instead provides realistic and expressive range of piano modules, each with individual dry sounding presets that you 'just play.'

TruePianos does not rely on disk streaming, has a low memory footprint and optimized CPU usage making it ideal for live performances, even on 1 Ghz CPUs while features like sympathetic resonance are active. For the more serious pianists an enhanced polyphony mode is available as well as multi-CPU support to make sure that even with extreme polyphony, truepianos will still perform reliably on most computers sold over the past 2-3 years.

Key features:

• Extremely playable
• Intuitive no-nonsense user interface
• Low CPU usage and Multi-CPU support
• Small memory and disk footprint
• Piano modules with multiple presets
• Sympathetic Resonance, Repedalling, etc. are supported
• Free updates and additional piano add-ons for 1 year

Minimum system requirements

• Windows 2000/ XP or newer
• 1GHz Pentium 3 or Athlon CPU
• 128 MB of free RAM for TruePianos to use
• A VSTi host (e.g. Cubase, Sonar, energyXT)
• A soundcard with proper ASIO drivers

• Windows 2000/XP or newer
• 2.5-3 GHz CPU, or a 1.5 GHz dual core CPU
• 256 MB of free RAM for TruePianos to use
• A VSTi host (e.g. CuBase, Sonar, energyXT)
• A soundcard with proper ASIO drivers

TruePianos has a retail price of $180.