Editor's review
Piano is a classical musical instrument that never fails to attract the attention of majority of music enthusiasts and often we wish to try out our hands on them. But, the technicality involved, along with high professional charges, often holds us back from learning it. Now, you can learn the art of playing piano, without burning a hole in your pocket, as A73 Piano Station 1.1.0 is there to assist you for the course. This software would turn your computer into a virtual piano, using which you can enhance, regain or develop your playing skills, with ease. In addition to Piano, it also offers variety of sounds from various instruments ranging from guitar and ocarina, to drums and synthesizer. With various instruments sound, it also offers several music styles, arpeggios for playing rhythmic patterns and chords, mixing controls, recorder, virtual keyboard, even more to add.
The interface of A73 Piano Station 1.1.0 is intuitive and impressively aligned with options supporting different functions. The lower half area of the interface presents a virtual 6 Octave piano keyboard with realistic keys for easy practicing. On the upper half area of program window, the options are presented discretely in three sections. Using the first section, MASTER, you can alter the levels of Master, Lead, Bass, Rhythm, which is further followed by the Record, Play and Mute options. While you play the music with the piano keys, you can record and save it to hear your creation. Coming to the mid section, it provides sounds of various instruments, with large number of allied patterns list. Next, the third BASE section offers different Tempo styles, along with features to set Shuffle level, enable Rhythm and Bass with associated Key Start, or use Defaults. The application also consists of Option-set to alter program settings and functioning.
With credible range of functions, the A73 Piano Station 1.1.0 makes it wonderful experience to play piano, and help users to create their own music with sounds of various other instruments. Its sheer usability along with its rich feature set earns it a score of 3.5 rating points.
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