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When we chose to create piano Instruments, we carefully chose which upright piano to start from.
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We wanted a piano capable of producing both a full sound and the shallow on the edge of being out-
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by Steinbach in Torino and placed it in a mid-size roomy studio surrounded by a plethora of microphones.' r) x, d) o) X; a4 h
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5.95 GB (lossless compressed) library size, 4688 samples' I" q3 n" Y' ~8 V2 i! t
4 microphone sets: Royer ribbon Blumlein and Spaced, Neumann M149 mono and Oktava stereo room set
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4 release trails layers, chromatically sampled
9 p$ ?) _6 |, q, v$ aindependently controllable sustain-pedal resonances
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sustain-pedal down and up noise layers
4 ^& }/ `4 t9 p& msampled with Millennia, Neve, SSL and Focusrite preamps fed direct into Apogee converters4 e% k5 n! x6 P5 C# o" ~
all of the details of the piano recreated through the use of our custom advanced scripting
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easy-to-use mixer for extreme sound-mangling
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