Perhaps we've reached a point where even nit-picking sceptics like myself must accept that JS Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier has been superseded by the Well-Sampled Pianoforte?Īnyway, the latest high-end piano collection to come to the attention of your Bad-Tempered Reviewer is US company VI Labs' True Keys Pianos, currently winning accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Sample companies have begun throwing resources into capturing all the dynamic variations and pedal inflections of some top-notch 88-note concert grands, and (as with orchestral samples) the gap between the real thing and the sampled facsimiles has narrowed to a point where very few people can tell the difference. I used to dislike playing sampled pianos almost as much as I hate going to the dentist, but in recent years something has changed. A second 'multi' page (featuring eight-band parametric EQ and a full range of effects) allows the creation of multitimbral user setups. True Keys Pianos' UVI Workstation GUI contains a four-channel mixer for its three microphone positions and 'mix' samples, an elaborate array of pedal controls, and convolution reverb settings. Three grand pianos jostle for supremacy in VI Labs' deep-sampled, secrecy-shrouded True Keys Pianos package.
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