PianoFlex help

PianoFlex is a piano that runs on your Windows PC. It doesn't play back recordings of a piano. Instead, it works out the sound of each note as you play it, from a model of a piano's hammers, strings and soundboard built on measurements of real grand pianos. That's why one program can be many pianos: a concert grand piano, an old upright piano, a soft felt piano, and more.

Each of these pianos is a preset. Choose one from the list and play it as it is, or change its sound with the sliders until it's the piano you want.

There are three main ways to play PianoFlex:

• From a MIDI keyboard connected to your PC.
• With ComposerFlex, our program that composes piano music. ComposerFlex writes the songs and PianoFlex plays them, so you don't need a keyboard at all.
• Inside your music program, as a plugin on an instrument track.

Contents

• Getting started: setting up each of the three ways, and your first notes.
• The window: what each part of the screen does.
• Presets: choosing a piano, changing it, saving your own, and comparing two.
• Layers: playing up to four pianos at once.
• Playing, rendering and recording: playing MIDI files, saving audio files, and recording what you play.
• In your music program: using PianoFlex as a plugin.
• With ComposerFlex: hearing ComposerFlex's songs on your piano.
• If something doesn't work
• Demo mode and your license
• Keys

Help inside PianoFlex

• Click the name of a slider, and the line under the sliders, above the keys, explains what it does.
• The yellow line below that tells you what just happened, or why something didn't work.
• Click Help (or press F1) for the list of keys, a button that opens this guide, and the About box.