Studio Piper is a software-based bagpipe allowing you to play and record Highlandpipes, Uilleann pipes, Border pipes and Scottish Smallpipes throughyour PC or Mac.">
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Border Pipes - Andy Renwick's Ferret |
Highland Pipes - Cha Till MacCrimmon |
Small Pipes - Rocking the Baby |
Uilleann Pipes - Hector the Hero |
Aswell as allowing you to set the overall volume of the currentinstrument, the relative volumes of the drone and chanter can also beset.
The timbre controls let you personalise your drone and chanter sounds.
Play any of the instruments in any key over a two octave range, making it simple to play along with any other instruments. You can tune by semitones and even by individual cents so you are always perfectly in tune with whatever instruments you want to play with.
With the metronome set your desired time signature and tempo.
The Uilleann pipes sampled were made in the late 1990s by the late, legendary craftsman Dave Williams. They are based on a Crowley design. The chanter was made in 2006 by Benedict Koehler with its form derived from a Rowsome chanter.
Both the Border Pipes and Small Pipes used were developed by Fred Morrison and Stuart McCallum and were manufactured by McCallum Bagpipes. They appeal to pipers of all kinds because of their acoustic compatibility with other instruments. Both default in the key of A (440) with an extra E drone creating a harmonious chord.
The Great Highland Pipes sampled were McCallum drones with a McC2 chanter designed by top competing piper Willie McCallum, again manufactured by leading pipe maker McCallum's Bagpipes.
Theaudio samples used in Studio Piper were recorded with Neumann U87 andRode NTV microphones and mastered with iZotope Ozone to ensureoutstanding sonic quality. Studio Piper was developed with audioresearcher and former Tom Oberheim software engineer, Bill Evans, andthe Centre for Music Technology at Glasgow University.
Being a software based instrument allows us to use much longer samples. Studio Piper therefore produces a much more realistic sound than a purely-hardware eqivalent. For example, our drone samples are up to one minute long. This produces the minor variations and phasing that make a recording sound real, while remaining perfectly in tune.