Sound Magic Thor Piano Mac PC Software eLicenese

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Arguably the most famous Steinway piano and most famous grand piano in history, Thor is the Steinway that pianist Vladimir Horowitz loved the most. Also known as the CD443, Thor was Mr. Horowitz's last piano and was selected by the artist for personal home recording sessions. In fact, he loved it so much that he even considered concertizing it in 1989.

Thor featured an amazingly dynamic range and certain "bite" when played really hard, but still produced a soft, singing tone when played softly; two aspects most pianos simply couldn’t capture individually or together. Coupled with Steinway's famous singing tone and bell-like sympathetic resonances, it made it a truly great piano. This vast dynamic contrast and its lighting fast response is why this superb instrument became known as “Thor" in reference to the Norse god of storms and thunder.

Features

• Neo Piano Hybrid Modelling Engine
• Forge Unique Sounds through Online Customize System
• Grand-Breaking Resonance Engine
• Style Designer allows One Knob to fit your music style
• Artificial Intelligence Tools check the response of your keyboard and pedals
• Scala Tuning System allows you try different tunings on your piano
• Multi GUI Versions

Next Generation Neo Piano Hybrid Modelling Engine

Neo Piano features a custom built Hybrid DFD/RAM system. It is a very flexible system which can be optimised for different playing applications. If you are using an old system with low RAM,DFD will work well. If you are using a top performance 64bit system with plenty of RAM, you can choose to play Neo Piano totally from RAM. A balance of DFD and RAM samples can be utilised to optimise general performance. In All cases Sound Quality remains at the highest level.

The core of the Neo Piano Engine is the intelligent analyze system which evaluates a MIDI track or performance to determine the Optimum balance between RAM and DFD usage. You can choose the amount of RAM available to Neo Piano to use. For live stage performances, the entire piano sample set can be loaded into RAM, removing any worries about OS interference with Hard Disc access. For Studio and Composition use, DFD is ideal with modern computers.

The new Neo Piano Engine has been totally redesigned and consumes much less CPU than before (1/10 of the previous version) and also best DFD performance (15mb/s requirement for hard disk speed which is around 1/10 for modern hard disks and even less for SSD, so this minimizes the possibility of glitches and pops due to reading the hard drive)

NEO Piano Engine offers you the best from both sampling and modelling worlds. The Authentic Sound of Sampling combined with the Playability of a Modelled Piano makes for a piano experience that you have to try to believe!

Standard sampled piano sounds are always static with no interaction between the strings while playing, but the NEO Piano Engine recreates these ethereal harmonic changes, generating subtle sympathetic resonances based the notes being played at any given moment. The NEO Piano Engine is constantly evolving, reproducing this interaction between strings, breathing life into the piano sound, recreating the souls of a real instrument.

The new user defined Damping system emulates real damper behaviour precisely and you can decide whether you want to play a ‘tight’ brand new piano, a typical bedded-in piano or a ‘loose’ well-worn old piano.

The NEO Piano Engine gives you absolute control over every aspect of a piano - you can even design your own piano! There are nearly 40 controls waiting for you to adjust. Lift the lid, alter the dampers, change the velocity response, apply a ‘Style’ or Resonance, adjust the player/audience perspective the combination of options is astounding!

Major Breakthrough - Multi-Dimension Resonance Engine

A major breakthrough in Neo Piano Engine is the resonance engine. Every Grand Piano has a very large soundboard which reflects sound which resonates together with the piano’s wood body. This is a continuous process and makes every note sound unique. In order to simulate this behaviour, Sound Magic first captures multi angle IRs from the soundboard, then applies ground-breaking technology to convert those IRs into Resonance Engine Algorithms. The result is an amazing concert hall sound reproduction full of life.

One Knob to fit your music style - Style Designer

Style Designer is a special function which allows you to quickly and easily set the piano’s musical style, such as pop, jazz, rock, classical or soft. When you move the style level dial, it will change several internal parametric.

Artificial Intelligence Tools

The Artificial Intelligence Tools check the response of your keyboard and pedals, and help you to find your ideal velocity response curve. A.I. Tools will:
1. Test your Keyboard's Velocity Response.
2. Test pedal support and half pedaling support.
3. Monitor the input states of the piano.

Scala Tuning System

Scala Tuning System allows you try different tunings on your piano. There are over 4000 tunings waiting for you to try out!

Multi GUI Versions

Neo Piano Engine provides different GUi versions for different usage. Sometimes, you may not want the GUI to take so much space on the screen, then the mini GUI version will be good for you. Or you may want to see GUI easily, so a modern and big GUI will be good for you. they plan to add more GUI versions in future to give users more choice on their GUI.

Powerful Add-on System

Their Powerful Add-on System brings unlimited extension possibilities to the instrument. Each Add-on focuses on solving one specific problem with the aim of a thorough - but lightning quick - solution. Every musician has his/her own needs, their own challenges and the Add-on System is the ideal tool for providing solutions with great precision and flexibility. Below is a list of Add-ons we recommend to you.

Neo EQ Pitch Tracking EQ	Neo DynaMaster All Powerful Dynamic Processor	Neo MasterTool Multi Process Mastering System	Vocalist Unique Vocal Processing	Neo Reverb

System Requirements