New Piano plug coming soon...

[Raccoon]

http://www.synthogy.com

hmm, wonder if it beats The Grand?

Looking good...

[Allan Speers]

Sure does look good. I would be very surprised if it didn't also sound great.
-and it includes RTAS !!!

Does anuone know when it will ship, and what the pricing is?

[michael c]

I saw it at the NAMM show and it was one one the few things I saw that looked very promising. Listened with headphones and it sounded very cool, but still I was listening at NAMM. (Listening at NAMM; what a joke!)

It's supposed to ship for Mac OS (OSX & OS9) in March '04 and cost approx. $349.00.

[davip]

Any word on latency?

[Allan Speers]

Since it will run as RTAS, the latency should be under 3 ms, and since it only sounds via midi-command, you can set-up an automatic playback compensation.

This is VERY promissing. I'm especially intrigued by the "piano specific" parameters that are included, that can't be implemented on a standard sampler.

[michael c]

It's RTAS and not TDM, so latency should be very small. I believe you can also decide how much the plug taxes your computer. There are options so you can select what type of controller is going to be used; Yamaha, Korg, etc. so that the samples trigger more evenly.