Re: Real Piano Game
Teodolinda Mattson
Use your computer mouse or keyboard to play the virtual piano keyboard (or the device touch screen for mobile devices). You can view the corresponding computer keyboard letters by activating the Real Keys feature. For the entire keyboard spectrum, click it twice.
Metronome The Metronome feature enables you to play at a regular tempo. Use it to improve your timing.
You can adjust the Metronome based on BPM (beats per minute) or time signature.
A virtual piano keyboard is perfect when there isn't a real piano or a keyboard at home or when your piano or keyboard isn't next to a computer. The online piano keyboard simulates a real piano keyboard with 7 1/4 octaves of 88 keys (only five octaves for mobile devices), a sustain pedal, ABC or DoReMe letter notes representation, a Metronome, zoom-in, and a full-screen mode.
Use your computer mouse or keyboard to play the virtual piano keyboard (or the device touch screen for mobile devices). You can view the corresponding computer keyboard letters by activating the "Real Keys" feature. For the entire keyboard spectrum, click it twice.
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The build process is broken down into 21 numbered bags, although as you can see in the instruction booklet, this works out to just 8 distinct phases. (With an average well under 200 pieces per bag, each stage should be quick.)
Things get a little more interesting in the second bag, as we quickly finish the L-shaped brick-built frame, then move on to an intricate Technic assembly. It involves a central axle with 12 Thin Liftarms (part 41677) attached in three different orientations. To make this easier to assemble, each orientation corresponds to a different color, with liftarms pointing forward in 21Bright RedRed, pointing down in 1White and pointed backwards in 23Bright BlueBlue. This is especially helpful since we build two of these assemblies on separate 16L Axles, as the color-coding makes it easier to ensure they are connected in the same orientation.
The fourth stage builds the literal soundboard using Technic frames for a sub-structure, with large LEGO plates on top of it. It is topped with a layer of 5Brick YellowTan tiles, which are arranged in a staggered pattern that closely mimics how large panels of wood are made by joining smaller pieces together. The light color resembles that of lighter colored woods. Upon further research I learned that spruce is the most common wood used to make the soundboard, which makes sense since it is a light-colored wood.
The soundboard is built as a separate assembly and attached in the last step of this stage. While it does not offer any particularly interesting building techniques, I did appreciate the attention to detail which uses both 13 and 16 Tiles to achieve a very clean, evenly staggered appearance.
Stage 9 finishes this section of the model by carefully wrapping the rest of the exterior with black tiles. This involves both convex and concave shapes on the back right side of the model, and a straight section which is hinged to allow access to the power button.
This is followed by three identical modules which form the three feet of the piano. They have a slightly sculptural form, with curves where they attach to the piano and round feet to allow it to roll slightly on a table.
Each stage creates modules containing piano keys, which are snapped together using Technic pins. The first of these modules is 8 studs wide and includes four white keys and three black keys. At two studs wide, they are not radically smaller than the keys of a real piano!
While it feels strictly optional to include a stool in this Grand Piano set, this final stage is surprisingly packed with interesting building techniques. This centers around an intricate scissor mechanism that allows the height of the stool to be adjusted by spinning the black knob on either side. The mechanism is smooth, and allows you to adjust the height by a little less than the height of two bricks.
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I would like to my midi in Garageband sound like a real piano .I'm using the Steinway Grand Piano in the library, but it has no intonation and depth.I tried adding some plug-ins and tuning hyperparameters but still, it sounds very midi-generated.
What @Tetsujin is hinting at is: getting a "human" feel is probably not going to be about any setting so much as the control of the notes themselves. In a human performance, in most genres, hardly ever will any two consecutive notes be the same volume (in MIDI terms, "velocity"). The performer will make expressive choices to get louder and softer over time, or when playing simultaneous notes, to make certain ones louder than others. They will also expressively vary the note duration: A quarter note does not mean releasing the key after exactly one beat; it may be much less (staccato), or could overlap the next note by a tiny bit.
To use a metaphor: If you're trying to use a computerized text-to-speech app to create spoken poetry, then if it doesn't sound human, the problem is not necessarily that you need a better sample of a human voice, or that the voice needs to be "tuned." It's that we vary every syllable in pitch inflection and emphasis to convey meaning. The classic stereotypical "robot voice" is all about making the pitch and emphasis of all syllables neutral. To make matters harder, these variances are systematic; if you were to just vary the inflection of your speech synthesis randomly it might sound even more bizarre. Certain speech patterns convey certain meanings; we learn them organically, and to spell them out in detail would be a big task.
Similarly, programming an "expressive, human" performance from scratch is a big job. It means fiddling with the velocity and duration of every note, and it means having some intuitive sense of where the music should get louder, softer, more sustained or more detached. That's why, even with MIDI data, it's easiest to input a live performance and then edit as needed. If that isn't feasible for your purposes, you might want to have a pianist audio-record the music as a guide to you.
So, I packed up my Soundcraft Signature 12 MTK mixer/interface and a bunch of mics and headed to Ohio to get this thing sampled. I set the lid to its highest open position and used 8 mics: a borrowed AKG 414 set to omni mid-way back in the center, 2 cheap Behringer pencil mics with omni capsules mid way back in an x/y pattern (which were surprisingly quiet!), 2 sE 8 Cardioid mics pointed at the hammers in an X/Y pattern, an sE v7x pointed into one of the sound holes, an sE vKick up under the sound board closer to the lower notes and a Studio Projects C1 up on the stair landing behind the piano to get ambiance. In the end, the sE 8s just sounded the best (and clearly I had no idea what I was doing lol!). I may eventually add more mic layers you can mix in, but for now I just wanted to get this released. I also plan on releasing it in all the various sample player formats.
So much effort was put into making this just the way he wanted. Immortalising such a personal instrument for your own use is one thing, but to then give that work away freely for everyone to enjoy is magical - just the way Pianobook is supposed to be.
I've had this sitting in my collection for a while now and I'm not sure why I couldn't fully apreciate it until now, but... my God. The tones on this thing will bring a grown man to tears. It just sounds so raw. It sounds good as is but if you add a convolver it's like you're listening to somebody playing in person in an empty hall, it sounds so convincing, you could easily mistake a song made with this as something that was recorded. This has quickly become one of my favourite pianos to the point that even if I'm using another piano and I want to layer something to give it some edge/tonality this is the first that comes to mind.
I was tempted to give 4 stars for the sound because there's a little noise (not a bad kind of noise like a hiss, it's a beautiful kind of hammer sound with a very subtle crunch) because some might consider that a flaw but personally I like the option of having that and it's a non-issue because not only can it be a desired effect but in this instance it can actually be eq'd out because it doesn't compromise any of the other frequencies which is often not the case. I guess this is where sound and character overlap but for me and my purposes it's perfect and every note has been well recorded and processed.
As far as the GUI goes there's only 3 parameters to play with which doesn't sound like much but I don't use the built in effects that tend to come with these things anyway because you have much more control in your DAW's mixer. The 3 paramters are 'Key Vol', 'Release Vol' and 'Pedal Vol'. I gave it 5 stars because what else do you really need? It's fit for purpose and it looks nice.
Note's start at A1 and go all the way up to C9! Usually I have to clone the VST and tune the copies to different octaves and then bodge them all together which is a pain.The range on this thing is unmatched.
I absolutely love the sound of this piano. It has the imperfections and nuances similar to my own 60 year old living room piano and means I can have that feel of playing in the comfort of my home when I'm out of town with nothing but my laptop and midi keyboard. Thanks for the effort in posting this for all to share and enjoy.
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