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When facing grand codas, the choice is rather limited, but upright pianos are a totally different world. " G5 Y; O# ~ K5 w" k$ ]. Q
We wanted a piano capable of producing both a full sound and the shallow on the edge of being out-' o! w! _8 W9 W1 ^' c) ~! y
of-tune tone characteristic of so many historical recordings. We sampled a beautifully made italian upright piano built 3 o7 u& ]) T7 T. o4 X
by Steinbach in Torino and placed it in a mid-size roomy studio surrounded by a plethora of microphones.
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5.95 GB (lossless compressed) library size, 4688 samples
1 j: P+ p4 R4 K4 microphone sets: Royer ribbon Blumlein and Spaced, Neumann M149 mono and Oktava stereo room set
. Y( |8 K( f, t; e, T/ g8 sustaining dynamic layers, chromatically sampled! Q2 M; T0 }! _, ^- y+ p4 D* z
4 release trails layers, chromatically sampled
( N1 q0 \3 I5 L: }independently controllable sustain-pedal resonances3 ]1 P6 L0 t$ \0 @+ c2 Y+ k
key-release noise for added authenticity
. ]: T. S. p( B6 S) V, X6 Msustain-pedal down and up noise layers7 b# p7 e; W; s) Q) r* ]
sampled with Millennia, Neve, SSL and Focusrite preamps fed direct into Apogee converters
9 [) s; Y# z# ^ N7 i n/ {all of the details of the piano recreated through the use of our custom advanced scripting4 t7 W" j8 }7 J4 q
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easy-to-use mixer for extreme sound-mangling" O! F+ n! A1 U2 p
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