Details
Released
August 15, 2008
Available Format
Sampler Patches:Download contains: 3,300 single samples plus sampler patches for HAlion®, Kontakt2®, EXS24® or GigaStudio3®. Download comes as 3 zipped files (2 x 2.1GB plus 1 x 900MB). You will need around 5GB worth of space to store the samples.
Pack Summary
This Pianoforte library is the ultimate pianoforte sample set, captured with 32 velocity layers for each note, offering unparalleled dynamics, feel and the very purest sound.
Built by Johann Karl Traugott Berndt himself, appointed courtly instrument maker of the King of Prussia, the historical piano sports a graceful, charming yet smart and slinky sound hidden in a plain-Jane bourgeois Biedermeier style housing.
The Traugott Berndt pianoforte was given to the Mendelssohn-Haus in Leipzig as a gift by Professor Beurmann in November 2007. It is now available for the first time for your sampler, presented in its original tuning at 433 Hz.
More about the release:
To deliver the ultimate pianoforte experience in your studio, we captured the sound with 32 velocity layers of each note for great dynamics, feel and pure sound.
Far beyond the status quo of piano sampling - offering mostly just 4-5 velocity layers - this addresses a common problems often associated with digital sample pianos: the playing feel and sound of only a few layers is nothing like the real deal.
Furthermore, we recorded the release sounds of each key in eight variations to complete the experience of this rare instrument.
Presets are available for all common sample formats including HAlion, Kontakt2, EXS24 or GigaStudio3.
The sample library contains nearly 3300 single samples.
Recording the pianoforte:
For the task of recording the Traugott Berndt pianoforte, we employed active tube-driven Royer R-122V ribbon microphones in conjunction with Crane Song Flamingo preamps and Universal Audio 2192 digital converters to do the instrument justice.
What's in the collection:
• 32 different samples of each note
• Light versions with 16 and 8 velocity layers available
• 8 different release sounds of each note
• ready to play HAlion/Kontakt2/EXS24 or GigaStudio3 presets
• wave format (except GigaStudio version)
• no mastering applied
• recorded in 192 khz/24 bits resolution and downsampled
• license-free applicable in your music