4Front Technologies TruePianos 1.0 User Manual

TruePianos

User Manual

Version 1.0

2

© 2006-2007 4Front Technologies
All rights reserved

Manual version: v1.0 / 24.01.2007

Products of 3rd party companies are mentioned solely for information purposes.

Microsoft, Microsoft Windows © Microsoft Corporation

Ableton Live © Ableton AG
Acid © Sony Media Software
Audiomulch Interactive Music Studio © Sonic Fritter
Forte © brainspawn
Cantabile © Topten Software
Chainer © Xlutop
CakeWalk Project 5 Version 2, Sonar, Sonar Producer, Sonar Home Studio XL © Twelve Tone Systems
Console © ART Teknika
Cubase, Cubase Studio, CuBase SL, Cubase SX, Steinberg, VST, ASIO © Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
energyXT © Jørgen Aase
FL Studio © Image-Line Software
KarSyn © Open Labs
Kore © Native Instruments
Logic © Apple
Madtracker © Yannick Delwiche
MiniHost © Tobybear
n-Track Studio 5 Audio Editor © Flavio Antonioli
Orion Platinum © Synapse Audio Software
Renoise © Renoise
Phrazor © Sonicbytes
Tracktion © Mackie
VST Host © Hermann Seib

All software and hardware terms not specified, as well as brand names, are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.

TruePianos User Manual

3

LICENSE AGREEMENT

1. This End-User License Agreement is a legal agreement between 4Front Technologies and the end-user
("Licensee") for the accompanied products ("Software") and the content material ("Content"), and it is covered by
the laws of California.

2. The Licensed Software is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties, as well as other
intellectual property laws and treaties. The Licensed Software is licensed, not sold.

3. The agreement unless entirely satisfactory is a subject for a negotiation and we are willing to provide the
reasonably altered agreement on request. Any alterations to the agreement should be explicitly approved by 4Front
Technologies.

4. However installing or otherwise using the Software indicates the approval of the present agreement.

5. This License Agreement also covers, unless stated otherwise, all the software and content updates and
supplemental materials, originating from the Software web site.

Software Updates and Technical Support

6. The Software updates and technical support is available on a subscription basis. Technical support and the
updates for the Software and the Content will only be provided for the subscription term, and after the subscription is
due, the right to use the software is restricted to the last available version at the subscription expiration date.

7. Subscription can be prolonged automatically or manually within the three months after the subscription expiration
date. The exact term of subscription is seen at the time of purchase or renewal at the order page.

8. Customers who chose not to prolong the subscription are still entitled to use the version available at the last day
of their prior subscription.

Software

9. This agreement provides two possible licensing models of the software, which denote personal and collective
use. The License Model is defined at the time of purchase by the Licensee name, whether individual or a company
name. The models are described below.

Personal Licensing Model

10. When TruePianos software is registered on a proper name, this gives the licensee the right to install TruePianos
on a reasonable number of personal computers, as long as licensee is the sole user of the software. In this case, the
agreement is relating to an individual. It is allowed for the other individual to use the software within the supervision
of licensee in the environment of Licensee, provided that it is used by only one person at a time.

TruePianos User Manual

4

Collective Use Licensing Model

11. To use this Licensing Model, the Software has to be registered on a company or a studio name. This allows the
Software to be installed only on one computer at a time, but does not limit the number of operators to work with the
software.

License Transfers and Licensing Model Changes

12. Each case of a License transfer or Licensing Model change is handled individually, and is granted only by the
written acknowledgement from 4Front Technologies. However, but not necessarily, 4Front Technologies retains the
right to deny the License transfer more frequently than every 6 months.

13. After the license is transferred, the prior owner of the license is obliged to uninstall the Software and the Content
and destroy all backup copies of it.

14. Upon the granted transfer, the subscription account will receive a new title and registration code.

Miscellaneous

15. The Licensee is welcome to use the software in a way to create musical scores, performances and tracks,
analyze and test the Software output, however is not allowed to disassemble or reverse engineer the Software or
the Content.

16. The Licensee may not re-sample the sounds or otherwise use the parts of the Software or the Content in a
competing product. However in a case of uncertainty, we would encourage Licensee to contact 4Front
Technologies.

17. The Licensee may not distribute the Software in whole or parts, or the software account information, unless
explicitly granted by a written permission from 4Front Technologies.

18. If reasonable evidence is found that the License Agreement is violated, 4Front Technologies reserves the right
to cancel the account subscription, terminate the License Agreement and possibly take the reasonable legal steps.

Disclaimer

19. In no event shall 4Front Technologies and Third Parties involved in the development of this Software be liable
for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to,
procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused
and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in
any way out of the use of this Software or its Content, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.

TruePianos User Manual

5

NOTE

Please store your TruePianos reference number and the e-mail address used while purchasing the product in a
safe place.

TruePianos User Manual

6

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................7

System Requirements .............................................................................................................................................8

Subscription ............................................................................................................................................................9

Downloads ............................................................................................................................................................... 10

Staying up-to-date ................................................................................................................................................ 11

Installation ................................................................................................................................................................ 12

Product Activation ................................................................................................................................................ 13

Online activation ............................................................................................................................................... 14

Manual activation ............................................................................................................................................. 15

Using TruePianos .................................................................................................................................................... 17

Initial Configuration (Options) .............................................................................................................................. 18

Keyboard Dynamics ......................................................................................................................................... 19

Increased Polyphony ........................................................................................................................................ 19

Multi-CPU Engine ............................................................................................................................................. 20

Sympathetic Resonance .................................................................................................................................. 20

Basic Interface ..................................................................................................................................................... 21

Advanced Interface .............................................................................................................................................. 22

Module selection............................................................................................................................................... 23

Preset Selection ............................................................................................................................................... 23

Velocity Control Panel ...................................................................................................................................... 23

Tuning ............................................................................................................................................................... 24

Output Level ..................................................................................................................................................... 24

About .................................................................................................................................................................... 25

VSTi Host compatibility list ...................................................................................................................................... 26

Supported MIDI Controls ......................................................................................................................................... 27

TruePianos User Manual

7

INTRODUCTION

Musicians becoming one with their instrument, telling lively and sometimes emotional stories through their music
can be a reality only when an instrument has the expressive and dynamic qualities, as well as the natural feel to
speak the artists' musical language.

TruePianos was developed with the ambition to produce the first virtual piano instrument which allows the user to
experience exactly this.

The product offers highly intuitive controls which allow you to painlessly adjust the instruments’ behavior to exactly
match the combination of your own unique playing style and the characteristics of your MIDI keyboard.

Following our tradition, TruePianos is optimized for real-time performance. The CPU usage is low even with 96 kHz
host sampling rates, and for advanced polyphony we support dual-core CPUs, spreading the load symmetrically.

TruePianos’ does not meticulously try to replicate existing pianos. Instead it uses a combination of the latest
sampler, physical modeling and synthesis techniques to produce our interpretation of great playable pianos.

With the release of TruePianos v1.0, the product has reached a milestone where we feel it reached the point that
was needed to deliver, what it was originally intended to do.

Development has not stopped, instead it has just started. We’re continually working in further improving the
TruePianos Core engine and developing additional piano modules.

We hope, that one day in the near future we’ll be able to say that TruePianos is the piano plug-in of choice for many
musicians, no matter the preferred type of piano sound, no matter the musical style

Gone are the days of the dinosaur sized piano libraries that you might have been used to. We welcome you to the
expressive world of TruePianos!

TruePianos User Manual

8

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

TruePianos system requirements vary, depending on the TruePiano module used. Future updates to the TruePiano
Core engine will most likely, also influence these requirements.

Because of this the system requirements below are estimations based on the current version of TruePianos.

Minimum system requirements

- Windows 2000/ XP or newer

- 1000 MHz 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
Meeting these minimum system requirements should allow you to use TruePianos with ‘normal polyphony’ and

‘sympathetic resonance’ activated. Enabling the Increased Polyphony option will most likely cause the sound to
break up and make TruePianos unsuitable for real-time performance

Optimal system requirements

- Windows 2000/XP or newer

- A 2.5-3 GHz CPU or faster, or at least a 1.5 GHz Multi-CPU/Multi-Core equipped computer

- 128 MB of free RAM for TruePianos to use

- A VSTi host (e.g. Cubase, Sonar, energyXT)

- A soundcard with proper ASIO drivers

Meeting the optimal system requirements allows you to use the full capabilities of TruePianos.

TruePianos User Manual

9

SUBSCRIPTION

The full version of TruePianos includes a one year subscription to software updates and technical support.

Technical support and updates for the software and TruePiano modules will only be provided for the subscription
term. After the subscription is due, the right to use the software is restricted to the last available version at the
subscription expiration date.

This subscription can be prolonged automatically or manually within three months after the subscription expiration
date. The exact term of the subscription can be seen, at the time of purchase or renewal at the order page.

Customers who chose not to prolong the subscription are still entitled to use the version available at the last day of
their prior subscription.

One month before the subscription term ends, the customer will be reminded of the expiration of the subscription
term by e-mail.

Details on how to prolong the subscription can be found in the Customers section of our website at

http://www.truepianos.com

TruePianos User Manual