michele-perrone/OpenPiano
Open Piano is an attempt at recreating the characteristic sound of the piano with physical modeling sound synthesis. This allows for greater expressiveness and flexibility in comparison to sampled pianos. There is also no need to download huge libraries of audio samples, since everything is generated in real time.
DISCLAIMER: I don't discourage you from trying out Open Piano, but please note that this is still alpha quality software. As of now, it is nowhere near commercial plugins like Modartt's Pianoteq (which I own, and love) or Arturia's Piano V.
To build the Open Piano JUCE app/plugin, you will need CMake (version 3.15 or above), a C++ compiler (C++17 or above), and the latest version of the JUCE library. Once you clone/download this repository, you need to clone/download a copy of JUCE inside the OpenPianoJUCE/ folder. You end up with this directory structure:
Right now, Open Piano sounds like a strangely out of tune piano with no soundboard and only one string per note. Here's a short list of what needs to be done:
