Virtual Keyboard Vst Plugin

Posted By admin On 24.12.20

VirtualKeyboard is a highly configurable virtual keyboard for use as a 32/64-bit MIDI Instrument or Logic MIDI Effect plugin, or as a standalone program. Display multi-channel MIDI input in a resizable keyboard layout to learn new songs, show what you are playing in your video demos or send notes by clicking on its keys if you don't have a MIDI controller. The standalone version includes a SFZ player and offers a free download of an acoustic piano.

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Has a built-in Virtual Keyboard which can be used even if you don’t have a physical midi keyboard. Has extensive MIDI/Audio driver support, including ALSA, JACK, and; The graphical user interface in ZynAddSubFX can be completely disabled if the user needs to. Plugin Support via DSSI/LV2/VST. Session Management Support via LASH/NSM. Using VSTi, you don’t need to install a virtual MIDI device. Support a variety of audio output, including DirectSound, WASAPI and ASIO. You can define any key on the keyboard and display functions.

  • If you’re interested in piano VST plugins in general, check out this roundup of acoustic piano VST plugins here. What To Look For In A Electric Piano VST Plugin. Sound: With an electric piano VST, you want to focus on how close it emulates a real electric piano. Obviously, the closer the better.
  • Keyboards VINTAGE VST Instruments Ticky Clav 2 size 2.46 MB / 11.9 MB Ticky Clav 2 is an emulation of aHohner Clavinet. Back by popular demand comes another remastered virtual instrument by Big Tick Audio.
  • This does not work on the virtual machines such as Hyper-V, Virtual PC, or Boot Camp. Host Application: VST instruments (VSTi) version: VST 2.4/3.6 compatible AAX format is supported in Pro Tools® or Pro Tools Ultimate® CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 or better: RAM: 2 GB or more: Hard Disk: 100 MB or more: Display/Colors: 1280 x 800 or higher/24.
  • This free VST plugin bases on free samples provided by the University of Iowa. These are warm and convincing across most of the keyboard, but there are some quirks with panning and mono versus stereo on some notes. Perhaps best suited for ensemble recordings, performance and practice, the Iowa Piano is nonetheless a great sounding contender.
  • Piano Virtual Studio Technology (VST) is a software that emulates a piano. You just need a MIDI controller keyboard, 88 keys like that on a real piano to play like you would on an actual piano is the ideal way to go. There’s no piano hardware involved and the sound is generated digitally through the software.

Demo limitations:
The demo is free and fully functional but stops working after 3min and includes an add banner.

You'll find this virtual keyboard more flexible than other ones because it allows you to:
  • Stop the cursor in your DAW and still see what notes were being played (note that most virtual keyboards will clear all notes when you press stop).
  • 'Mute' or 'Solo' MIDI channels and display their notes in different colors. To mute a channel: 'Cmd'-click (Mac) or 'Ctrl-click' (Win) on the MIDI channel legend or click on the 'Mute' button. To solo it: Alt-click on the MIDI channel legend or click on the 'Solo button'.
  • Make the notes fade away instead of ending abruptlyto help you visualize quick runs. Use the 'Fade' sliders to set their visual queue in milliseconds for each channel. Notes sustained with the sustain pedal can be set with a longer, independent fade out. Tip: set the sliders to the maximum for infinite fade outs.
  • Visualize the Soft, Sostenuto and Sustain pedals and play them with your mouse (or hide them by dragging the top of the pedals to the bottom). You can also use the 'Shift' key to control the sustain pedal if you don't have a physical pedal. Please click inside the plugin if the keyboard focus is lost while switching between plugins.
  • Display the Pitch and Mod Wheel changes or use them to send your own values. You can also hide them by dragging their right border to the left.
  • Change the color of the highlighted notes that are on or sustained.
  • Hold 'Alt' to drag the keyboard horizontally with your mouse.
  • Hold 'Alt-Cmd' (Mac) or 'Alt-Ctrl' (Win) and drag the keyboard to stretch it (changing the key width).
  • Resize it: drag the bottom-right corner of the keyboard to change its height and width, drag the pedal boundaries to change their dimensions and edit the key width in the menu.
  • Label the keys with their note name, octave or MIDI number .
  • Hide all settings to show only the keyboard by clicking anywhere on the keyboard while holding the 'Cmd' (Mac) or 'Ctrl' (windows) key.
  • Use it to trigger notes with different velocities (clicking at a different height of each key if 'Velocity' is 0 or send constant velocities if 'Velocity' is greater than 0).
  • Play, pause and resume MIDI files at different speeds. You will probably find the following keyboard shortcuts useful:
    • 'spacebar': play / pause.
    • 'left arrow': rewind 4 seconds.
    • 'right arrow': fast forward 4 seconds.
    • 'up arrow': increase the speed.
    • 'down arrow': decrease the speed.
  • Play notes too with your computer keyboard. Click on 'Settings' to configure your computer keyboard. The key mappings for a QWERTY keyboard are:
    • '1 octave' mode:
      • 'asdfghjkl' for notes CDEFGABCD.
      • 'z': decrease octave.
      • 'x': increase octave.
      • 'c': decrease velocity.
      • 'v': increase velocity.
    • '2 octaves' mode:
      • 'zxcvbnm' for notes CDEFGAB, 'qwertyuiop' for notes CDEFGABCDE (+1 oct).
      • ', ': decrease octave.
      • '.': increase octave.
      • 'k': decrease velocity.
      • 'l': increase velocity.
    • Use 'Shift' to control the sustain pedal in both settings.
      Important: please click inside the plugin if the keyboard focus is lost while switching between plugins.
  • Save your settings automatically with your DAW project.
  • Finally you can use the VirtualKeyboardStandalone version to open, play, pause and resume MIDI files at different speeds without loading a full featured DAW.

Best Keyboard Vst Plugins

This download includes 2 VST/AU plugins: VirtualKeyboard and VirtualKeyboardSynth, and a 'normal' standalone program: VirtualKeyboardStandalone.

VirtualKeyboard doesn't produce sound (it is only a MIDI plugin). VirtualKeyboardSynth or VirtualKeyboardStandalone have a SFZ (AKA Sound Font) Sampler built-in where you can select a piano or other sounds.

  • VirtualKeyboard Setup:
    • Cubase (option A): Click on 'Devices' > 'VST Instruments' on the top application menu (or F11). Add VirtualKeyboard and your Synthesizer of choice as 'Rack Instruments' (right-click on the background to have this option). Create a MIDI track, select 'All MIDI inputs' in the input and select your Synthesizer of choice in the output. Then go to the 'MIDI Sends' tab, click on the second line of the first slot and select 'VirtualKeyboard Midi In'.
    • Cubase (option B): Create instrument track, select 'VirtualKeyboard' as Instrument on one track and select 'All MIDI inputs' as MIDI input. Now create another instrument track, select your synthesizer of choice as Instrument, select as MIDI Input '01 VirtualKeyboard - MIDI Out' and click on the little speaker below the track's name to monitor it.
    • Logic Pro 9: Logic Pro 9 unfortunately doesn't support 'MIDI FX' (you would have to upgrade to Logic Pro X). Add as an AUi (Audio Unit Instrument) in one track and add your synthesizer of choice as an AUi in another track.
    • Logic Pro X: Add in the 'MIDI FX' section of your mixer track that contains your synthesizer.
    • Ableton: Insert MIDI track, select MIDI From 'All Ins', 'All Channels', drag and drop the 'VirtualKeyboard' plugin in the 'Drop an Instrument or Sample here' area, select Monitor 'In'. Insert another MIDI track, select MIDI From '1 Virtual Keyboard', 'VirtualKeyboard' (instead of 'Post FX'), drag and drop your synthesizer of choice in the 'Drop an Instrument or Sample here' area, select Monitor 'Auto'.
    • FL Studio (option A): Click in '+' to add a track with 'VirtualKeyboard', then click in the top left 'gears' icon of the track to go to settings, go to 'plug settings' (second tab) and select 'Output port 1' in the 'MIDI' tab. Add another track with your synthesizer of choice, go to the track plugin settings and select 'Input port 1' int he 'MIDI' tab.
    • FL Studio (option B): Alternatively, if you just want to use one track, you can use the 'Patcher' to connect 'VirtualKeyboard' with your favorite synthesizer using the MIDI output cable.
  • VirtualKeyboardSynth Setup:
    • Add it as a regular AU or VST Instrument to your DAW. Note that it can't be added to Logic's MIDI FX rack. If you want to add it to the MIDI FX rack, use VirtualKeyboard instead, without the 'Synth' suffix.
  • VirtualKeyboardStandalone Setup:
    • Run it as a normal program. Use it if you don't want to wait for a full featured DAW to load or you don't know what DAW, VST, AU or plugins are yet.
      VirtualKeyboardStandalone is compatible with Windows Audio, DirectSound, ASIO and Apple's CoreAudio devices. If you are runnning Windows, please select ASIO to minimize latency (and if your soundcard doesn't include an ASIO driver, try with ASIO4All).

A few links follow with MIDI songs you can download and play with VirtualKeyboard.

To add new sounds to VirtualKeyboardSynth or VirtualKeyboardStandalone follow the next steps:

  1. First you'll need a SFZ instrument (AKA 'Sound Font') containing both a .sfz file and its samples. SFZ is an open format and there are many sounds available for free on the Internet. A few download links for free SFZ sound fonts follow:
    • Bandshed FTP (at Bandshed Records)
    We recommend:
    • Piano: Little Lizard (small version of the Salamander Piano) (free but donations are encouraged).
    • Drums: MF Natural Drumset - Home Page (original page in German) (free but donations are encouraged).
    • Rhodes: Stereo Rhodes from the Bandshed FTP. We couldn't find all the people involved in the creation of this sound jewel but we thank all of them for making it available.
    Disclaimer: The linked sites contain SFZ instruments released under different licenses. Use them accordingly.
  2. Next, open VirtualKeyboardSynth or VirtualKeyboardStandalone, and click on 'Settings'>'Open Sounds folder'.
  3. Uncompress the downloaded SFZ instrument to the Sounds folder.
  4. Click on 'Settings'>'Re-scan Sounds'.
  5. The new SFZ instrument will now appear in VirtualKeyboard's 'Sounds' drop-down list with its folder name.

All our plugins are available in 32-bit and 64-bit, in VST and AU formats. /acid-pro-8-scanning-vst-plugins.html.

Only Windows 7,8 and 10 and Mac OSX before Catalina are supported (read more about unofficially running our programs under OSX Catalina).

We aim to support as many plugin hosts as possible, including (but not limited to) Cubase, Logic, Ableton Live, Reaper, Bitwig, FL Studio and Cantabile.

However, because there is a myriad of different configurations, we recommend you to download and test our free demo before you buy it to make sure that the plugin is working well with your system.

Learn to play your favorite songs on a piano while having appropriate notes highlighted on a virtual keyboard within this user-friendly app

Midi keyboard plugin free

If you ever wanted to play the piano, but you could not afford a real one, then one alternative to account for is a digital piano. Providing you have a MIDI instrument, it is safe to assume that you possess all utensils to learn how to master this musical instrument.

VirtualKeyboard is an intuitive app designed to assist you with your efforts of learning the piano while taking advantage of the versatility of the MIDI instrument from your computer keyboard.

Can be used as standalone as well as a plugin

One first note is that the program is can be used as a plugin, but also as a stand-alone component. In order to access it as the latter, you are required to download the piano offered when the program when you run it for the first time. It goes without saying that if you want to employ is as a plugin, you need to have a suitable VST host.

It is worth mentioning that if used as standalone, the application comes with a couple of extra features, such as playing, pausing and resuming MIDI files at different speeds, for instance. Moreover, you can use it with DirectSound, ASIO and similar devices.

Enables you to view the notes being played

Custom color schemes can be created, and different settings saved for later use. In fact, the app allows you to stop the cursor in the DAW so you can view the notes being played.

Speaking of notes, you can configure the tool to fade them away instead of ending them abruptly. Consequentially, you have some time to visualize the quick runs.

Since it only connects to the audio layer for the sole purpose of reviewing the notes, there are no options to alter the sound. The interface is resizable in width, just to restrict the view space to the keys of interest.

A reliable tool for anyone interested in learning the piano

All things considered, VirtualKeyboard is a versatile and easy to use application that can make learning how to play the piano more convenient.

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