I pointedly asked 4Front Technologies some questions about their virtual piano development. The specialized sampling technology evidenced in True Pianos is the brain child of Mr. 4Front’s lead programmer, George Yohng, is highly respected among his peers for spear-heading and developing the audio-engine that powers the “Vienna Symphonic Library”. We’ll delve into each of the five modules a little later.Īs a general statement, True Pianos can certainly be considered more than able to replace most nearly any large, hard drive-taxing piano sample library.
The good folk at 4Front do not specify which actual piano models are referenced by the five modules, but suffice it to say, each of them is excellent. With five, distinct piano types to choose from, True Pianos is sure to provide the perfect tone for any given project. (Comparatively speaking, that is.) An obvious benefit of 4Front’s technology is the fact that the sound is generated programmatically ‘ on the fly’, eliminating disk streaming and hard drive caching. Collectively, these attributes work synergistically to reproduce incredible piano realism whilst demanding very little memory and processing power. True Pianos is a highly evolved, digital symbiotic-relationship of sampling, synthesis and physical modelling.
When 4Front Technologies released True Pianos in January of 2007, it became immediately obvious to the digital-instrument community that this software was “ something different”. Now, dear reader, before you glance up at the “back” button thinking that “light on CPU” means “light on sound-quality”, rest assured that nothing could be further from the truth. In this case, that “ something special” is the very conservative system requirements and how ‘lite’ this beautiful-sounding piano suite is on CPU and memory. I always like to find that “ something” about a product that causes it stand out something that puts it ahead of the other race horses, even if only by a nose. In keeping with that principle, let’s continue focusing on True Pianos at this time. Reviewer’s Revival never deliberately compares one product to another, in an attempt to force a choice between the products. Each of these great packages exhibits its own uniqueness and allure. The only “true” competitor to 4Front’s modelling excellence is the illustrious “PianoTeq 4”, which will also be reviewed here on Reviewer’s Revival in the not-too-distant future.
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