The Great Highland Pipes sampled were McCallum drones with a McC2 chanter designed by top competing piper Willie McCallum, again manufactured by leading pipe maker McCallum’s Bagpipes.
Both default in the key of A (440) with an extra E drone creating a harmonious chord. They appeal to pipers of all kinds because of their acoustic compatibility with other instruments.
Both the Border Pipes and Small Pipes used were developed by Fred Morrison and Stuart McCallum and were manufactured by McCallum Bagpipes.
The chanter was made in 2006 by Benedict Koehler with its form derived from a Rowsome chanter.
The Uilleann pipes sampled were made in the late 1990s by the late, legendary craftsman Dave Williams.
It lets you choose whether you want to sound like you’re playing in your living room, a cathedral or anywhere in between!
Versatile reverb gives an extra dimension to the realism of the sound.
You can tune by semitones and even by individual cents so you are always perfectly in tune with whatever instruments you want to play with.
Play any of the instruments in any key over a two octave range, making it simple to play along with any other instruments.
Panning lets you set how much of the drones and how much of the chanter you want to come out of each speaker.
Drone and chanter panning can be set independently of one another, allowing for a variety of stereo effects.
As well as allowing you to set the overall volume of the current instrument, the relative volumes of the drone and chanter can also be set.
If you’ve used ePipes’ The Fred Morrison Sound, leave a comment with your thoughts! The Fred Morrison Sound is available as a VST instrument for Windows PC for £70 GBP, excl. Each virtual instrument is composed from sound samples played by Fred Morrison on his own pipes. See our Complete Guide To MIDI Bagpipes for information on the Technopipes, the Frankenpipe and other MIDI pipes.Īll instruments can be played with your own bagpipe fingering in any key over a two octave range. The Fred Morrison Sound is a software based bagpipe that, when used with the Technopipes or any MIDI bagpipe, lets you play high quality studio-sampled Highland pipes, Scottish Smallpipes, Border pipes and even Uilleann pipes. EPipes has released The Fred Morrison Sound, a virtual bagpipe instrument for Windows.