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Welcome to Virtual Pianist
Virtual Pianist VOGUE
Thank you very much for trying or purchasing Virtual Pianist VOGUE, the first in a brand-new line of instruments designed to enable everyone to produce great piano tracks in no time.
Note: This user guide has been written for the Virtual Pianist series. At this point in time, there is only one Virtual Pianist, VOGUE. Some of the series functionality described below will not apply yet, such as switching between virtual pianists. These will be self-explaining and you can just ignore them.
What is Virtual Pianist?
Virtual Pianist combines a highest-quality virtual piano instrument with a world-class session pianist.
There was only one mission statement that we followed throughout the entire innovation and development process:
“If we do it right, anybody - even total non-keyboardists - can produce and perform dynamic, convincing piano tracks while having a ton of fun”.
Therefore, Virtual Pianist is anything but “yet another piano library”. Actually, creating an amazing virtual piano model along with the sound design options that let you always find and tweak that sound you’re looking for, or be inspired by something you didn’t expect, was almost the easy part. And there was a lot of reference, because virtual piano instruments have been around since 2003, and some of our team were involved with the very first of its kind.
The real challenge was to create a player engine that doesn’t sound robotic or boring but actually vivid and inspiring, and that allows for dynamic live tricks such as playing with busyness, articulations, fill-ins and other things that bring a piano performance to life. That’s something we hadn’t seen before, but since the UJAM team has so many guitarists, singers or DJs who don’t play the piano but need piano, there was a large pool of resources to tap into for finding out what people want, how they want it, and what makes them truly happy.
One of my favorite moments along the way was when I showed an early alpha version to a friend who’s a classically trained pianist and he went: “Wow, this thing makes me play things I’d never think of, and it’s almost too easy”.
We sincerely hope that this will be what Virtual Pianist feels like to you as well. Because after all, we’re a lot about making music creation easier for people, but even more so, we’re about enabling and inspiring new ideas, and to make it a lot of fun.
The entire team hopes you’ll enjoy this new virtual instrument!
Peter Gorges
Founder, UJAM
About Virtual Pianist VOGUE
The piano is one of the most versatile instruments ever invented, and so are the people who play it. Obviously, there is no “the piano” or “the pianist”, for there is a large range of piano applications, musical genres, piano types, and player personalities.
A classical piano is a different make and model, setup and tuning than say a pop piano. A classical pianist will use completely different playing techniques, ideas and articulations than a pop pianist.
Therefore, each Virtual Pianist, while offering a quite broad palette of sounds and playing styles, will focus on a certain type of piano and player.
VOGUE, in this range, is a combination of a modern pop grand piano and a bandleader-kind of pianist, both of which you’ll find on the big stages and in world-class studios around the globe. VOGUE is perfect for you if you produce modern band music - from pop ballads to rock anthems to EDM club hits - but it doesn’t stop there. Using and abusing the sonic and musical possibilities, VOGUE will make you produce great results in genres as far from mainstream piano as Ambient, Film Score, Hip Hop or Alternative. In the end, it’s not about following schemes. It’s about an inspiring musical idea or song performance and a well-engineered and designed piano sound to go with it. You’ll find all of that combined and ready at your fingertips in VOGUE. Just try it!
Installing Virtual Pianist
The easiest way to install Virtual Pianist VOGUE is via the UJAM App. Alternatively, you can download a direct installer from the ‘Your Products’ page in your account on our website.
Installing from the UJAM App
Virtual Pianist VOGUE in the UJAM App
We recommend installing Virtual Pianist from the UJAM App – it doesn’t matter if you’ve purchased it or are just starting the 30-day trial period.
The UJAM App will always display all available Virtual Pianist titles. You can choose one, a few or all titles from here. With the installation of your first title, the UJAM App will also install the Virtual Pianist plugin frame which hosts the titles.
After opening Virtual Pianist in your DAW, you can download, install and start trials directly from within the Virtual Pianist plugin.
Installing without the UJAM App
You can install any UJAM product without using the UJAM App. Just follow these steps:
- Log into your UJAM account
- Navigate to your ‘Backstage’ account overview
- Click ‘Head to Products’ to view all of your products:
- Navigate to Virtual Pianist VOGUE and select the option to ‘download the installer’ instead
When you start a trial from a button on a product page, you may be taken to your account or asked to create one if you’re new to UJAM – just follow the steps there as well.
Detailed information
Clicking on the circled “i” in the top left banner of the user interface of your Virtual Pianist opens the Information page where you can find detailed information about your build as well as links to the Acknowledgments, Product Page, Support, this user guide and the License Agreement.
Quick Start
Before we look at things in more depth, let us first explore how to play, tweak and create with Virtual Pianist, as that may be all you need for now. This super-short section will show you how to get started in minutes.
Open Virtual Pianist in your DAW
Open the Virtual Pianist plugin and choose a Virtual Pianist title.
Load a Global Preset
Click into the top center area to open the Global Preset Browser, or simply click the arrows to step through the presets.
In the Global Preset Browser, you can take your time jumping around between Presets from all categories. Just double-click a preset to go back to the Virtual Pianist VOGUE main page.
Set The Right Size
You can resize Virtual Pianist’s user interface by either clicking the Resize button in the top-right corner of the user interface or by dragging the little hashed triangle in the bottom-right corner.
Play Piano
First, let’s focus on the sound shaping options. For that purpose, make sure VOGUE is set to Instrument Mode:
- Set the little switch on the left side, right above the keyboard, to “Instrument”
Now the pianist is deactivated and the keyboard becomes a fully controllable piano.
It doesn’t matter how well you play at this point. Just hitting a few notes is enough - we’ll go all virtuoso later!
Choose Your Piano Character
Click your way through the Characters on the left side of the user interface to explore the range of sounds you can get out of your Virtual Pianist. They’re ordered top to bottom from soft sounds to more aggressive sounds.
Experiment with Finisher and Ambience
Now let’s move to the right of the beautiful diamond visual and check out the effects:
- Enable the Finisher first. This multi-effect module provides sound design options optimized for your Virtual Pianist, from subtle to crazy.
- Set the Amount knob to around 12 o’clock to make sure you can hear the effect
- Now click the left and right arrows under the Finisher Mode name to skip through Modes, or click the Mode Name to browse Categories and Presets.
Deactivate the Finisher again and do the same with the Ambience Section.
Adjust Dynamic Behavior
If you’re a skilled player, you may want to adjust the velocity sensitivity of your Virtual Pianist.
You’ll find the Dynamics control under the Master Tab menu. For the dynamic range of a real grand piano, turn it up fully.
Darker? Brighter?
Underneath the diamond graphic, you’ll find a slider labeled Dark/Light. Play around with it and listen to what it does to the overall sound of your Virtual Pianist.
Enter: The Pianist
Pianist Section
Most of the hard work and brain grease in inventing and building Virtual Pianist went into creating a realistic Player experience. Try for yourself if we did a good job!
First, set Virtual Pianist to Player mode. You’ll find that yourself by now.
Play a note or a chord
In Player Mode, Virtual Pianist will operate solely based on chords, because they are the basis for all the complex riffs and arpeggios the pianist is able to perform.
Also only in Player Mode, the Pianist Keyboard at the bottom is equipped with a separate Control Octave - it’s the left octave with the marked keys on the user interface, and it’s the octave from C1 to B1 on your MIDI Controller or editor.
Control Octave
The Chord Range of the keyboard starts at C2, so play any note or chord, and the pianist will start playing.
Adjust the Play Range
The second stylized keyboard above the Pianist Keyboard is called the Realtime Note Display. Inside it, you’ll find two white handles. While holding a note or chord, drag those handles and notice how the virtual left hand (yellow tint) and right hand (purple) ranges change.
Set a scale
A convenient way of always making sure you stay within key and scale is using the Key parameter. Select the key of your current song, and no matter what keys you press afterwards, Virtual Pianist will only choose chords from that key’s scale. Particularly handy when you’re not a skilled keyboardist.
Left hand, right hand
In the Control Octave, the keys C1, D1 and E1 select right-hand only phrases with increasing density. As you go further up, you’ll find that F1, G1 and A1 are two-hand phrases with even further increasing density. Experiment with how you can seamlessly move between intros, verses, chorusses and breakdowns almost by only using these density variations.
If you’re in Latch mode, the B key stops the pianist. Notes will ring out as long as the key is held.
When you hover over a key in the Control Octave, tooltips will show you what that particular key triggers.
Throw in little accents
The black keys in the Control Octave add spice to the pianist’s performance. C#1 throws a low note, D#1 a high chord into the performance at any point, while F#1, G#1 and A#1 add fills at matching places in the song position after you hit them, and for as long as you hold them.
Conduct your pianist
How hard a pianist hits the keys is obviously a defining factor of the perceived intensity of the performance. You have extensive control over this so-called Velocity by using the Pitch bend controller. If you like, try recording a short song and then overdubbing the controller after the fact.
Also, Busyness is an amazing feature to create variation by adding in faster notes - just turn up the Modulation controller (Busyness on the user interface). You’ll notice extra notes fading in. Unlike the fills triggered by the black keys, this is a good way of adding variations very dynamically and in any place, even in the middle of a bar.
Reference
This Reference section of the User Guide is a complete encyclopedia of all features and parameters of Virtual Pianist. We recommend you read it - it’s not that long - to make the most of your new Pianist.
Working with Global Presets
Global Presets in Virtual Pianist save, load and change all settings on the user interface with a few exceptions:
- Player/Instrument Mode
- Swing
- Latch
- Sync Mode
- Key
Or, the other way round: You can save a complete Virtual Pianist setting including Character, Effects, Style a.s.o. as a new Preset.
Loading Presets from the Browser
Clicking on a Global Preset name in the Preset Display in the top center of Virtual Pianist will open the Browser.
Here you can browse to your heart’s content, and exit the browser by
- double-clicking on a Preset name to load the Preset, or
- clicking the x in the top right corner to exit without loading a Preset.
Switching between Pianists while Browsing
While in the Browser, you can click Pianist icons to switch between Virtual Pianists.
If you switch to a different Pianist and load a preset afterwards, Virtual Pianist will switch to the new Pianist interruption-free.
Switching Browser Filters and Categories
Global Presets in Virtual Pianist are structured into Filters and Categories as follows:
- Filters: “Factory”, “User” and “All”
- Clicking “Factory” shows only Presets that came with Virtual Pianist
- Clicking User shows only the Presets you saved. In a freshly installed Virtual Pianist, the User list is empty.
- “All” shows both Factory and User Presets.
- Categories: In each Pianist, Presets are sorted into custom categories such as “Soft & Dark” or “Pads & Atmospheres”.
- The little numbers right of the Category names show how many Presets each Category contains.
- This is particularly helpful with the “User” filter activated - this way you can avoid browsing empty categories.
Skipping through Presets
If you want to just skip back and forth through Presets, click the Arrows right next to the Preset Name in the top display.
The Display will always show you the current category and the currently selected position within that category (e.g. 6/23 means the 6th out of 23 Presets in that Category).
Saving Presets
You can create User Presets from Factory Presets, overwrite your User Presets, or save (altered) copies of User Presets under a different name.
Creating/Overwriting User Presets
Click the left Save icon right next to the Preset Display to save an altered Global Preset to a User Preset or to overwrite a User Preset.
If creating a User Preset from a Global Preset, you will be asked for entering a name, and you can select a Category for your new Preset.
Note that categories are the same as for Factory Presets and in “All” mode both are combined (both Factory and User Presets are shown in that Category).
Saving Presets under a different name
When you’ve altered a User Preset and want to save the result under a different name, click the right Save icon. You’re presented with the known dialog for entering a new name and selecting a Category.
Piano Section
The large area containing the Character selector, the key visual and logo as well as the Effects and Master is called Piano Section, as opposed to the Pianist Section that contains the Player or Instrument parameters as well as the Interactive Keyboard on the bottom of Virtual Pianist Main Page.
Character
For any recorded piano sound, the piano itself is only part of the equation. Other important factors are: Piano setup (tuning, adjustment), microphone types and placement, room and any audio processing such as EQs or compression.
In Virtual Pianist, all these factors are combined into Character presets that offer 6 distinct piano models from soft-natural-ambient to hard-artificial-direct. The table below provides guidance as to what each Character represents and how you can make the most of it
|
Character |
Description |
Room |
Great for … |
|
Emotion |
Dark, with a lot of warmth, resonant, almost blurry, ambient |
Wooden room |
Cinematic, Ambient, Intimate |
|
Ballad |
Full-bodied, crispy transients, warm, yet direct, can stand out in a mix or against vocals |
Bright stage |
Romantic, Pop, Background |
|
Concert |
Full concert grand greatness - big, dynamic, wide and glitzy |
Large studio |
Vocal accompaniment, prominent piano in an ensemble (orchestra, band) |
|
Power |
Slightly artificial, all controls set to power and attitude, strong transients and highs |
Hard, subtle ambience |
Pop and rock band settings, rhythmic accents |
|
Plastic |
Fully artificial, set up for brightness and strong transients, almost digital |
Bouncy artificial room |
Riffs and themes in modern and retro electronic music genres |
Effects: Finisher and Ambience
The Effects Tab contains two separate effect sections: A Finisher multi effect with presets optimized for that particular Virtual Pianist and an Ambience section containing both a delay and reverb effect and presets for each and both combined.
Using these effects is pretty straightforward:
- Disable or enable the Finisher or Ambience section using the circular buttons left next of the section label
- Step through Presets using the arrows or click on the currently selected Preset Name to open the drop-down menu, where you can browse Categories and Presets.
- Turn up the Amount Knob to dial in the effect. Both knobs go 100% wet, i.e. at their maximum position you hear only the effect signal.
Master
The Master Tab lets you adjust two global aspects of the piano that are not saved with presets.
Dynamics
The Dynamics knob adjusts the sensitivity of the piano model to key velocity - i.e. whether the piano gets softer the softer you hit the keys, or the lower the MIDI velocity values it receives. When you turn it all the way down, the piano will always sound hard. The more you turn it up, the softer the piano will be at low velocity values.
Tune
The Tune knob lets you tune Virtual Pianist up and down by half a semitone or 50 cents. The cent scale is how you usually tune an instrument in a DAW. If you should want to tune Virtual Pianist to certain Hz tunings, here’s a reference:
|
Frequency |
Tune |
|
435 Hz |
−20 cents |
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436 Hz |
−16 cents |
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437 Hz |
−12 cents |
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438 Hz |
−8 cents |
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439 Hz |
−4 cents |
|
440 Hz |
0 cents |
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441 Hz |
+4 cents |
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442 Hz |
+8 cents |
|
443 Hz |
+12 cents |
|
444 Hz |
+16 cents |
|
445 Hz |
+20 cents |
Volume and Level Meter
The large Volume slider to the right of the Piano section lets you adjust the output volume of Virtual Pianist. Combined with the built-in level meter, it helps maintain an optimal input level into subsequent audio processors or mixer channels.
Dark? Light?
Slider at full Light position, Diamond fully illuminated
The Dark/Light slider underneath the beautiful diamond artwork lets you define the overall character of the piano sound - and the brightness of said diamond too.
You can either use it statically for the entire track, or dynamically for making bright, powerful choruses stand out against dark, subtle intros.
This slider controls a combination of multiple piano-optimized filters, so at any position it retains the essence of the piano while taking away or adding frequencies across the spectrum.
Pianist Section
Pianist Section
The Pianist Section - i.e. the bottom area of the user interface, is where you play and perform on the piano that you set up in the Piano Section above.
The Pianist Section offers two basic operation modes:
- In Player Mode, you get to take a seat in the producer’s chair, telling a versatile, professional pianist what to play for you.
- In Instrument Mode, Virtual Pianist is a virtual piano instrument that you can play like any regular virtual piano
Player Mode
This mode has been designed to create a range of rhythmic, arpeggiated and sometimes even artistic piano performances that you can control even without any skills on the keyboard. It takes as little as holding one key. How much more control you want to exert is totally up to you - you can play complex chords, you can control the density and intensity of the phrase in various ways, throw in fills and of course change the entire musical style in the middle of the road.
We went to great lengths to create an intuitive toolset allowing you to play, vary and dynamically control the Pianists performance either live, when editing or by overdubbing.
Here are the controls in the order you should look at them.
Playing Chords
The basis of everything and the start of any performance is choosing the Chord. You do this by pressing one or more keys in the note area of the Pianist Keyboard, which is also the range from C2 upwards on your MIDI keyboard or MIDI Editor.
Unlike in Instrument Mode, the Pianist will always use Chords at the core of the performance. Virtual Pianist includes a powerful chord recognition that provides easy and intuitive ways of playing chords:
- Press one key to create 5th intervals
- Press two keys to create min, sus2, sus4, b5, aug, 6, 7, maj7
- Press three or four keys for Virtual Pianist to detect the most similar chord. Available chords.
Chord Display
When a chord is detected, it will be displayed by the Chord Display above the C5-C6 octave of the Realtime Note Display.
Particularly in the beginning try experimenting with combinations of keys, chords and bass notes and watch the Chord Display so explore the range of options Virtual Pianist has to offer.
Chord Reference
Here is the list of all supported chords, with fingering schemes in C.
Note: Gray italic letters mean the key is optional. For example, you can play only C and B, or you can play C, E, G and B - in both cases a Cmaj7 chord will be detected.
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Chord |
Keys |
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5 |
C |
G |
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maj |
C |
E |
G |
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6 |
C |
E |
G |
A |
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7 |
C |
E |
G |
Bb |
|
maj7 |
C |
E |
G |
B |
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b5 |
C |
E |
Gb |
|
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aug |
C |
E |
Ab |
|
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min |
C |
Eb |
G |
|
|
min6 |
C |
Eb |
G |
A |
|
min7 |
C |
Eb |
G |
Bb |
|
mMaj7 |
C |
Eb |
G |
B |
|
m7b5 |
C |
Eb |
Gb |
Bb |
|
dim |
C |
Eb |
Gb |
|
|
sus2 |
C |
D |
G |
|
|
sus4 |
C |
F |
G |
|
|
7sus4 |
C |
F |
G |
Bb |
|
min11 |
C |
Eb |
G |
F |
|
add9 |
C |
E |
G |
D |
|
madd9 |
C |
Eb |
G |
D |
Bass notes in the left hand
When you play a note that’s more than 7 semitones (usually a 5th) lower than the lowest chord note, it will define the bass note for the left hand.
You can even play an octave in the low range as long as the highest note of that octave is more than 7 semitones lower than the lowest chord note.
Phrases and Variations
The Control Octave is the left octave of the Pianist Keyboard in Player Mode. It is also the octave from C1 to B1 on your controller keyboard or MIDI Editor.
This octave doesn’t play any notes or chords, but lets you vary the performance of the Pianist.
Selecting phrases changes the density of the performance and whether it contains a left hand (LH) part.
The notes C, D and E select three right-hand-only phrases without LH, and notes F, G and A add a left hand part, while from left to right the density of the phrasing also increases.
You can always check the assignment of a key by hovering over it with the mouse, displaying a tooltip. Here’s an overview:
|
Key |
Hand(s) |
Intensity |
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B1 |
Stop |
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A#1 |
Variation 3 |
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A1 |
LH + RH |
3 |
|
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G#1 |
Variation 2 |
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G1 |
LH + RH |
2 |
|
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F#1 |
Variation 1 |
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F1 |
LH + RH |
1 |
|
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E1 |
RH |
3 |
|
|
D#1 |
High Chord |
||
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D1 |
RH |
2 |
|
|
C#1 |
Low Chord |
||
|
C1 |
Right Hand (RH) |
1 |
|
To select Phrases and add Articulations:
- Hit a white key to select a Phrase, or hit the Stop key to stop the player.
- Hit C#1 and D#1 to throw in a Low or a High Chord.
- Hold F#1, G#1 or A#1 for as long as you like for a Variation of the phrase. Variations automatically align with the currently playing performance, so sometimes you’ll need to wait for a beat or two for the Variation to kick in.
Setting a Key
You can restrain Virtual Pianist to using only chords that are within the key of your current song. This is how Virtual Pianist behaves depending on Key selection:
When no Key is selected,
- single notes in the chord range trigger neutral chords,
- for the more complex styles that play notes other than notes in the current chord (accidentals, runs and modulations) those notes are chosen relative to the current chord.
When a Key is selected,
- single notes in the chord range trigger more complex chords that work in the key,
- for styles that play notes other than notes in the current chord, those notes are chosen so they stay in key where possible.
- Example: When an Emin chord is played in the key of C and the style wants to play a second (II) interval (or modulate the root note up by one scale step) the key makes sure it plays F not F#.
Using a Key is also a safety net when you’re not a skilled keyboard player.
Controlling Velocity and Busyness
The two virtual wheels left of the Pianist Keyboard let you gradually control the intensity (Velocity) and Busyness of the piano performance:
- Turn Velocity up and down to change the intensity - how hard the notes are hit.
- Turn up Busyness temporarily, and the Pianist will play gradually busier
Both are real fun and intuitive to use when overdubbed onto a recorded performance or a track created with Drag’nDrop.
Note: Obviously, those two controls can be controlled by the MIDI Controllers Pitchbend and Modulation as well as by real wheels on your controller keyboard if it has them.
Adjusting the Play Range in the Realtime Note Display
Realtime Note Display
The Realtime Note Display above the Pianist Keyboard is both a display showing you the actual notes played and a dual slider that allows you to draw the lower and higher note range limits for the Pianist.
It’s that straightforward:
- Drag the left handle to set the range for the left hand
- Drag the right handle to move the range for the right hand.
As a visual guide, the left hand zone is tinted yellow and the right hand zone is tinted purple.
As you can see by the tint fading out at the fringes, the ranges aren’t definite, but rather “comfort zones”. The actual resulting range is always influenced by the style and displayed while the player is active, so you have a good reference while dragging the handles.
This is a really intuitive and powerful tool to make the pianist play lower or higher, or with both hands closer to each other or further apart.
Note: Where you actually play on the keyboard also has an effect on the range. If you play note above C4, this will shift the range of notes upwards.
Using Latch
In Player Mode, activate Latch if you want the pianist to continue playing even after you’ve released the keys.
You can also use the Sustain Pedal as a temporary Latch control.
To stop the pianist in Latch mode, hit the Stop key (B1, right key of the Control Octave marked with a stop icon).
Setting the timing
The Timing tab opens when you click Timing right next to the Pianist Keyboard. It provides four controls that let you adjust the timing of Virtual Pianist relative to song position, tempo and other tracks.
Sync to keys or DAW
This feature lets you determine whether phrases start playing
- the moment you hit a note (Note On)
- or quantized to the next 8th song position (Song Position)
In most cases, you will want to leave this setting at Song Position because then Virtual Pianist will always almost magically stay in time with the rest of your tracks e.g. when you’re live-recording.
Doubling or halving Speed
With this menu you can halve or double the speed of the pianist relative to your DAW’s tempo. You can get way more out of the selection of styles by trying them at unusual speed factors.
Adjusting Swing
Use this parameter for syncopating Virtual Pianist’s phrases. Technically, moving the slider to the right delays off-beats in relation to the overall grid.
Humanize or robotize
All phrases in Virtual Pianist were played by a skilled pianist and therefore aren’t perfectly quantized to robotic sterility, but contain very subtle timing variations that create a live feel. The Humanize slider lets you control the amount of those deviations:
- Move the slider towards Loose to exaggerate the live feel. This can sound great when combined with other live instruments.
- Move the slider towards Tight to remove any timing deviations - this comes in handy in quantized electronic arrangements.
Of course, you can also use MIDI Drag & Drop to drag phrases into your DAW and hard-quantize them there in any way you like.
Using MIDI Drag & Drop
You will have noticed the little areas with six dots that appear on the Control Octave.
By clicking on one of these areas and dragging into a Virtual Pianist (or any MIDI) track in your DAW, you can convert a phrase into a MIDI region.
That MIDI region will contain the phrase of the key you dragged from, with the last detected chord, considering the Play Range and Busyness setting but not the Velocity setting.
Note: When you Drag & Drop onto the track of the Virtual Pianist itself, Virtual Pianist will switch to Instrument mode to play back that phrase.
MIDI Drag & Drop is particularly useful when you
- want to build a song part by part
- combine phrases from various styles
- apply detail edits to phrases
Instrument Mode
Instrument Mode Layout
In Instrument Mode, Virtual Pianist doubles as a virtual grand piano with great sound design options. In this mode, the Pianist Keyboard is a real, regular piano You may notice though that the Velocity and Busyness controls are still active - but different!
Controlling Velocity and Busyness
In Instrument mode, the Velocity control changes the intensity of notes in relation to the actual note velocities you play or have recorded.
And whereas in Player Mode Busyness gradually adds more notes matching the current phrase, in Instrument Mode the control fades in an 8th note delay transposed by an octave, except it’s no audio effect but real notes. This is also pretty cool to add interestingness.
Learning MIDI controllers
You can map (learn) Virtual Pianist controls to hardware knobs on your MIDI controller or MIDI control messages in general. It’s that simple:
- Right-click the Virtual Pianist parameter you want to assign,
- click “Learn MIDI cc” and
- turn the knob or fader, press the button on your hardware controller (or send the corresponding MIDI message in general).
Warning: Make sure you don’t have a phrase playing while you MIDI Learn, as phrases may contain Sustain Pedal (#64) events and these can get assigned, leading to interesting but usually unwanted results.
MIDI Learn assignments are global to the Virtual Pianist plugin, i.e. you only have to learn an assignment once for all Virtual Pianists.
Automating Virtual Pianist
Virtual Pianist Automation Parameters in Logic Pro X
A large selection of Virtual Pianist parameters can be automated in your DAW. Automation will even “survive” switching between Pianists, as Automation is global to the Virtual Pianist plugin.
To learn how to set up and create Automation in your specific DAW, please refer to your DAWs user guide.
The Automation menu of your DAW will display Virtual Pianists parameters available for automation.
Sometimes Automation names of parameters may sound ambiguous – you can find out the exact Automation name of a control by right-clicking it on the Virtual Pianist user interface.
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