Universal Piper Overview
 Get ready




  2. We hope that  "Universal Piper" will bring you to new horizons of  bagpiping.

  3. Here's a quick start tutorial to take fully advantage of it.


  1. Universal Piper is a midi virtual instrument. It can be used solely or included in a DAW(*).


  3. It responds to midi note On/Off from Ab3 to Bb4 (for the standart GHB presets), which correspond to the natural scale of the GHB instrument; but can be also used with a midi practice chanter.


  5. If you want to find your own usage notation you can open the 'setup' panel and change the default notation of the software (from Breton, Scottish, or international)


  7. Every modification you make will be saved by the software and reloaded as default configuration next time you open it.


First opening:
If you want to hear the sound of the instrument you can try it with your mouse:
Start the drones manually with the drones switch. 

Then open the 'chanter' panel and give a try on the notes that you can click. Clicking on a note panel start and stop the note.

Well if you don't hear a thing, go back to that specific problem resolution here (to be done).
In the demo version, there's a blank sound that appears almost every ten seconds; If you want to get rid of that you have to buy the software.


  2. Some Universal Piper important Notions:


  4. First point:

  5. Universal Piper is composed of several presets.

  6. Each of those presets is dedicated to reproduce a bagpipe sound. There are factory presets that you cannot modify but duplicate and rename. Once duplicated and renamed every modification you make to the sound can be stored by clicking the save button.


  8. Every preset you make can be exported to be send to another piper. You can also delete one of your preset.

  9. Once you have a library of presets you can recall them automaticaly with the usage of Comand Control midi messages ... More about that in the Setup Panel explanation.


  11. Second point:

  12. A Universal Piper instrument is a bagpipe consisting in the combination of a chanter and a panel of drones. Factory presets are combinations that we propose from genuine sampled

  13. instruments. But you can mix chanters and drones from different bagpipe libraries to built and try to achieve the sound you like the best. See chanter and Drones panel for more

  14. information.

  15. Each instrument respond to midi messages that correspond to its real natural scale.

 
Give a try with the Quickstart procedure >Quickstart.html