Free Piano VSTi from Tascam

From the people that bring you Gigasampler/Gigastudio comes GVI. And to launch GVI, Tascam are giving away a free sampled/modelled piano that operates as either a standalone, VSTi or RTAS instrument. Here's what their blurb says....

TASCAM's new GVI is the ultimate sampler

Get the multi-award winning power of GigaStudio 3 in an easy-to-use plug-in for Windows VSTi and RTAS software workstations. It's the sampler for all musicians, composers and producers, with unobstructed access to the best sound libraries ever produced. GVI shares much of the feature set that makes GS3 the go-to sampler for professional power users.

What you get

It's a 16-part multitimbral sampler with unlimited polyphony performance and the ability to run multiple instances - limited only by the power of your computer. GVI takes advantage of the latest Giga technology, like 96kHz/24-bit sample support, iMIDI rules for realistic phrasing and embedded GigaPulse technology for instrument resonance and ambience.

What it means to you

You get the most realistic, organic and playable sampled instruments ever created at your fingertips. Since its introduction, GigaStudio has been the pinnacle of sampling technology. Now TASCAM GVI brings the ultimate sampling instrument to an easy to- manage plug-in instrument that integrates with your creative workflow.

Accept only the best

GVI is the first and only plug-in sampler worthy of the name Giga, allowing you to easily add realistic, playable sampled instruments to your productions without compromising sound quality.

GIGA Continuous Velocity Piano

The world's first instrument utilizing GIGA's Spectral Morphing technology instead of massive multisampling. This instrument utilizes only a single velocity sample, which is precisely and continuously expanded via the Spectral Interpolate Velocity (SIV) mode of GIGA's Spectral Morphing filters, to cover the full dynamic range, pp to ff, it is a FREE download from the TASCAM website. Click here to download (156 MB)

Well, it's free and I tried it and it sounds very nice, but is a bit CPU heavy. To be honest, I have plenty of very good piano's already in my Akai's and Fusion, but I can see the appeal of this. As for the technology, Giga has always been a resource hog and this follows suit. You need a very good machine to run this. Oh, and there's no Mac version either.

But hey, it's free ! ;o)