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Tailoring a piano’s response to your own taste has never been easier. Just raise the Data slider to brighten the response as much or as little as you like. For the technically minded, the slider controls the extent to which velocity increases the filter cutoff frequency. (It’s not merely a slider-controls-filter-cutoff relationship. Velocity responsiveness is maintained at all settings.)
Piano 1
Piano 1 and its variations have a rich, warm response when the Data slider is down. As the slider is raised, velocity responsiveness increases. Soft velocities are still warm, but hard velocities introduce a brighter timbre. At its maximum values, this slider yields a clear, semi-bright tone at soft velocites and a bright, natural tone at hard velocities.
Audio examples: Data slider at 0%, 50%, and 100%.
Audio examples: With a simple Data slider movement, this light jazz mix takes a completely different character. (In the second mix, the Mod Wheel is used to provide a more rapid decay as well.)
Piano 1 also includes a real-time tonal clarity control, giving soft notes a clearer, more defined tone quality.
Audio examples: tonal clarity control at minimum and maximum values.
Piano 2
Piano 2 and its variations use VAST EQ in addition to lowpass filtering. Much like Piano 1, when the Data slider is down, the velocity response is dark. But with these pianos, raising the slider not only brightens the filter response, but also adds a velocity-controlled high frequency boost. When the slider is at its maximum values, forceful playing gives a very bright timbre, enabling these programs to cut through dense mixes without using EQ from KDFX or external sources.
Audio examples: Data Slider at 0%, 50%, and 100%.
Audio example: Piano 2 in a rock mix. No effects processing was used on the piano. No EQ was used on the piano, other than EQ built into the program. In fact, none of the tracks use any KDFX EQ or dynamics processing. No RAM tracks were used.