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' u7 v/ ^8 @2 O- S7 V! w5 t( ~7 d1 qWhen we chose to create piano Instruments, we carefully chose which upright piano to start from.
) |' P8 R. h6 }3 f5 P1 P4 KWhen facing grand codas, the choice is rather limited, but upright pianos are a totally different world.
0 y6 V9 K8 |( N/ x% Q* DWe wanted a piano capable of producing both a full sound and the shallow on the edge of being out-
* I9 V" T( G; d0 {" L! d( w: Wof-tune tone characteristic of so many historical recordings. We sampled a beautifully made italian upright piano built
; g* N5 P3 E% V6 Gby 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! U: r/ x/ j6 q+ t# Z; j/ L3 j
4 microphone sets: Royer ribbon Blumlein and Spaced, Neumann M149 mono and Oktava stereo room set
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independently controllable sustain-pedal resonances; e4 v/ A' z/ j5 h
key-release noise for added authenticity
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sampled with Millennia, Neve, SSL and Focusrite preamps fed direct into Apogee converters6 K* c8 S4 Q. e7 D$ _" y
all of the details of the piano recreated through the use of our custom advanced scripting1 O% M, }) U9 }8 Y$ s
recorded at 24 bit / 96 KHz, released at 24 bit / 44.1 KHz! \% z" n. a [2 A9 u
easy-to-use mixer for extreme sound-mangling" }( I# }+ q c2 O2 U
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