DussekDownload

Struck,
not sampled

Dussek is a free piano, harpsichord, harp and percussion instrument for your computer: every note simulated as you play it, none of it recorded.

Nine kinds of instrument

  1. Grand A playing its demo: the strings as the engine moves them

    Grand pianos

    Grand A. Also Grand B, Grand C, Grand D, Grand E, Grand F, Grand G, Grand H and Grand I.

    Play
  2. Upright D playing its demo: the strings as the engine moves them

    Upright pianos

    Upright D. Also Upright A, Upright B and Upright C.

    Play
  3. Harpsichord E playing its demo: the strings as the engine moves them

    Harpsichords

    Harpsichord E. Also Harpsichord B, Harpsichord C, Harpsichord A, Harpsichord F and Harpsichord D.

    Play
  4. Clavichord playing its demo: the strings as the engine moves them

    Clavichords

    Clavichord. The only one of its kind.

    Play
  5. Harp A playing its demo: the strings as the engine moves them

    Harps

    Harp A. Also Harp B.

    Play
  6. Guitar playing its demo: the strings as the engine moves them

    Guitars

    Guitar. Also Strumstick.

    Play
  7. Psaltery playing its demo: the strings as the engine moves them

    Zithers

    Psaltery. Also Dan tranh.

    Play
  8. Vibraphone playing its demo: the strings as the engine moves them

    Percussion

    Vibraphone. Also Balafon, Bells, Tubular bells, Crotales, Glockenspiel A, Glockenspiel B, Hand chimes, Marimba, Tongue drum and Xylophone.

    Play
  9. Kalimba playing its demo: the strings as the engine moves them

    Thumb pianos

    Kalimba. Also Mbira B, Mbira A and Nyunga nyunga.

    Play

Whole pieces: Back Porch Boogie, Streetlights, Glass Rain, Ferry Montuno.

Replayed: Scarlatti's K. 9 (on Grand C; MAESTRO, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), Bach's BWV 848 (on Grand B; MAESTRO, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), Schubert's Op. 90 No. 3 (on Grand A; MAESTRO, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), Rachmaninoff's Op. 23 No. 4 (on Grand D; MAESTRO, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

The four pieces were written for Dussek (CC0) and play on Grand A; the four performances were recorded on a computer-controlled piano and play again on Dussek's grands.

Performances from the MAESTRO dataset v3.0.0 (Hawthorne et al., "Enabling Factorized Piano Music Modeling and Generation with the MAESTRO Dataset", ICLR 2019), licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; these renders carry the same license: share them with the credit, non-commercially.

Seven at once

Ensemble Demo 1: piano, vibraphone, marimba, harp, kalimba, bells and tubular bells, each instrument's strings or bars drawn as the engine moves them.

And the brass

Weidinger, Dussek's second plugin: trumpet, horn, tenor and bass trombone and tuba, physically modeled and played as lines. A preview, in the same download. Listen to Weidinger.

The
window

The plugin and the standalone share one window: every control by its instrument, the microphones around it, the strings as they move. The Mics tab, the Sound tab.

Grand A with a chord ringing: the Visualization draws each string as the engine moves itThe Felt tab: the hammers' felt, key by keyThe vibraphone: its own controls, the motor among them

Download
Dussek

Version 0.4.0, free: the standalone, LV2, CLAP and VST3, and every instrument; Weidinger, the brass, in the same files (a preview). Where a host offers LV2 or CLAP, prefer them to the VST3. The release notes; the same files on itch.io.

Install Dussek 0.4.0

Your system

Windows 10 or newer, 64 bit: the standalone in the Start menu, the plugins, an uninstaller.

Download for Windows