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sympathykeyroom.com ‘Velocity’ pushes forward the
sympathykeyroom.com starting point of sample playback
on lower velocity notes. ‘Onset’
Pianofax softens all notes equally through
the internal filter envelope.
‘Damper’ controls the time it takes
Piano patches programmed for for a sample to be cut off when a
early digital samplers are often note is released. ‘Delay’ delays the
satisfying to play and hear. Some start of sample playback for each
quality that those patches triggered note to simulate the
possessed was usually lost as physical lag of a mechanical key.
piano emulations became more
sophisticated. Pianofax is a low-
fidelity piano sample playback
instrument seeking this aura.
The samples are fed into basic
digital resonators that emulate,
after a fashion, the sympathetic
resonance of an acoustic piano.
This instrument tracks sustain
pedal MIDI messages. If you don’t ‘Upright Tone’ shifts the
have a pedal, use the ‘Manual breakpoints in the Upright
Sustain’ switch in the GUI. multisample up and down to
change the character of sound.

‘Manual Sustain’ sets sustain Tune:


pedal position. ‘Resonator ‘Upright’ and ‘Grand’ select two ‘Random’ and ‘Offset’ set the
Harmonic’ inverts the feedback of separate sets of samples. Each tuning of one of the two of the
the resonators. ‘Reverse’ inverts set plays two samples per voice. samples per voice. The other
the playback direction of one of sample stays at true pitch,
the two samples. ‘Interpolate’ resulting in chorusing.
switches off interpolation in the
sample playback.

Developed with Pure Data by Miller Puckette: http://msp.ucsd.edu/


Vst possible by Pierre Guillot's Camomile: https://github.com/pierreguillot/Camomile

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