Unless things are way off to the ear (and there probably are ways to adjust tuning, new to DAW's) I would not be over concerned about what a guitar tuner says compared to the real world.Īnecdotally, I used to play in a jazz band with another guitar player that intentionally tuned ever so slightly sharp as he felt this made his sound stand out of the mix, there is something to this, but it always messed with my prefer things slightly flat and us guitar will often play sharp anyway in the lower positions. The act of fretting the note slightly bends the string and differs with the length of the string to the fretted point. As guitar player, it is well known that all the notes in different areas of the fretboard will be slightly off through intonation, for instance, regardless of how well tuned the open strings are. You can learn more about octave stretching from Wikipedia: 'Ī lot of synths also combine 'detuned' notes that might throw of a guitar tuner type of thing.but it does seem to be common, but then also 'real' to instruments in the real world. This is due to a tuning technique known as 'octave stretching'. This was unintentional and will be fixed in a future update.Īlso, the samples are less sharp in the lower range of the piano and more sharp near the top. The samples are at the exact pitch of the original piano they were taken from. I can confirm that the samples are about 4-6 cents sharp.

'Hi, I am the sound designer of Pianissimo. I'll ask my piano tuner his opinion as well.' I'll test some of the even more advanced sample-based pianos that I have and report back. Even other TruePianos presets are further off. TruePianos Emerald and Diamond presets are the closest I've found in my tests. The key strike is sharp, then they quickly settle closer to correct pitch. Interestingly, most pianos are showing slightly sharp when played. I calibrated the tuners using a 440Hz sine wave tone from two different tone generators. All notes show anywhere from 6 to 13 cents sharp no matter if playing as standalone or vsti and no matter which preset is used. I used a couple of tuners including aptuner that Eric suggested. 'I can confirm that Pianissimo plays sharp. I use Pianissimo for piano for instance and found this recently on their forums.

Real instruments vary as a rule and intonation.so if the VSTi uses samples, it could well be slightly off to a clinical 'tuner'.

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