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Essential Information About the Virtual Piano for HALion Software

• Ultra-realistic "muted" felt piano sampled at Yamaha Studios LA, with 12 dynamic layers per key thanks to a one-finger robot for perfect consistency.


• Two microphone positions (Close, Room) and continuous distance adjustment to switch from an intimate sound to a wider image, without breaks.


• Built-in creative textures: 66 material presets (metal, glass, dry ice, electromagnetic sources, bowed strings, etc.) for modern, cinematic, and experimental atmospheres.


• Clear workflow in dedicated pages (Main, Piano, Texture, Effects) with control over grain, dynamics, realistic noises, and separate piano/texture effects.

What Virtual Piano for HALion Is For

Designed for productions seeking a soft, close, and enveloping felt piano, this virtual piano fits equally well in pop, film music, ambient, neo-classical, and minimalist electronic genres. Its appeal goes beyond a simple piano sound: the texture layer allows transforming a chord progression into a soundscape, adding a unique timbral signature to a melody, or thickening an arrangement without masking the piano playing.

Main Features

Precise Sampling Designed for Playing

The piano was recorded with an approach focused on consistency and fidelity: 12 dynamic levels per key finely capture the evolution from pianissimo to more pronounced attacks, while preserving the "soft felt" muted character. The one-finger robot ensures a homogeneous response across the keyboard, ideal for expressive parts, delicate ostinatos, and lightly touched arpeggios.

Two Microphones and Variable Distance to Place the Piano in the Mix

Choose between Close and Room, then adjust the microphone distance continuously to balance intimacy, air, and depth. This is especially useful to adapt the piano to your production: close and detailed for a vocal track, more open for a cinematic theme, or more distant to make room for dense sound design.

Textures: 66 Presets to Expand the Sound Palette

The texture engine offers 66 material presets (metal, glass, dry ice, electromagnetic sources, bowed strings, etc.). These layers can serve as a subtle harmonic halo, rhythmic musical noise, or granular material to evolve a simple chord into a narrative atmosphere. You maintain control over keyboard range, envelope, and color to achieve a texture that supports the piano instead of overloading it.

Dedicated Editing Pages: Fast, Musical, and Intuitive Control

The Main page focuses on the essentials of the mix: piano/textures balance, contour filter, variation, and distance. The Piano page deepens the playing personality with settings for color, compression, sustain resonance, and detailed noise management (attack, release, keys, pedals), with reverb send. The Texture page facilitates performance animation via modulation wheel assignment, in addition to controls for register, variation, contour, attack/release, and reverb send.

Built-in Effects: Separate Delay and Global Reverb

The Effects page includes a delay with preset selection, sync, time, feedback, and mix, available separately for the piano and texture layers. A global reverb completes the set (preset, pre-delay, time, mix) to quickly switch from a very close studio sound to a wider, immersive atmosphere.

Technical Specifications

License and Delivery

• Delivery type: E-mail


• License validity: Unlimited


• Copy protection: Online activation


• Simultaneous activation: 1

System Requirements

• Windows: 10 (64-bit)


• Mac OS (64-bit): From 11


• Minimum CPU: AMD Quad Core, Apple Silicon, Intel Core i5


• Minimum RAM: 4 GB


• Minimum hard drive space: 45 GB


• Screen: 1366 x 768


• Additional requirements: Internet connection for installation and activation

Supported Formats

• AAX Native 64-bit


• AU 64-bit


• VST3 64-bit

Features

• Precisely sampled felt mute piano recorded at Yamaha Studios LA


• Recording with specially developed one-finger robot


• 12 dynamic layers per key


• 2 microphone positions: Close, Room


• Continuous microphone distance adjustment


• Additional textures with 66 material presets (metal, glass, dry ice, electromagnetic sources, bowed strings, etc.)


• Main page: piano/textures balance, contour filter, variation, distance control


• Piano page: color, compression, sustain resonance, attack and release noises, key and pedal noises, reverb send


• Texture page: modulation wheel assignment, keyboard range, color, variation, contour, attack/release, reverb send


• Effects page: delay for piano and textures separately (preset, sync, time, feedback, mix) + global reverb (preset, pre-delay, time, mix)