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Fazioli Ebony Concert Grand : Commanding a powerful and magnificent sound, this imposing hand-made Fazioli ten foot Grand Piano was created by the makers of world’s most expensive grand pianos, and is considered by many to be the Elite of all grands.

Finally, an epic grand piano has been imperfectly sampled with warmth, without sterility. Most grand piano libraries tend towards having a sterile sound. The Fazioli Concert Grand offers an imperfectly sampled epic sound, with a raw warm, and rich tone not heard in other commercial grand piano sample libraries. The sound of this piano is deep, full, and epic, with real performance elements that can’t be simulated using synthesis or modelling. The Fazioli Ebony Concert Grand is desirable for situations where you want the grand, expensive sound of a real grand piano.

Fazioli Ebony Concert Grand features

• Contains over 70,000 samples in up to a record-breaking 127 layers.
• Includes true staccato, release samples, direct picked strings, perfect and imperfect instruments, piano effects, muted keys, unmuted keys, piano body wood knocks, seat and lid sounds, and many more.
• Painstakingly recorded imperfectly, as with all Imperfect Samples’ libraries, the emphasis has been placed on achieving a hyper-real and convincing sampled instrument, with performance sounds. Classic “perfectly” sampled instruments have also been recorded, with all muted keys and perfect tuning.
• Provided in 24-bit audio fidelity with a dry mic perspective, wet room perspective, player, close-mic’d, and internal perspective.

Price: GBP 39.99 (basic), GBP 89.99 (pro), GBP 119.97 (complete), GBP 299.96 (extreme) - The World’s Largest sampled grand piano, with up to 127 layers, 5 mic perspectives, with perfect and imperfect instruments (provided on a portable Hard Disk).

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Sound Magic has updated Imperial Grand3D to version 1.1. This free update includes several enhancements to improve the sound.

Changes:

• Improved CPU usage.
• Change default dynamic range, increased dynamic range a lot.
• Changed the sound tail, now it sounds more natural.
• Velocity transition becomes more smooth.

The Imperial Grand3D starts with the famous bright, rich, Bösendorfer-style sound, and establishes a high level of realism by using patented Hybrid Modeling Technology coupled with complete 3D Audio control. Physical modeling is at the heart of the Imperial Grand3D sound, but both sampling and synthesis are incorporated to add to the realism. Multiple DVDs, Out of Memory errors and glitches are ancient history.

Price:  EUR 99.00

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Sound Magic has announced the release of Imperial Grand3D, a new instrument plug-in that starts with the famous bright, rich, Bösendorfer-style sound, and establishes a high level of realism by using patented Hybrid Modeling Technology coupled with complete 3D Audio control. Physical modeling is at the heart of the Imperial Grand3D sound, but both sampling and synthesis are incorporated to add to the realism. Multiple DVDs, Out of Memory errors and glitches are ancient history.

Just 150MB in size, the authentic harmonic colorations of the Imperial Grand3D bring a depth of sound to any style of music. Sound Magic says “Regular sampled piano sounds are always static – there is no interaction between strings while playing. Physical modeling forges these ethereal harmonic changes, generating subtle resonances based on which notes are being played at any given moment. The Imperial Grand3D is always changing, always reproducing this interaction between strings, giving it a living, breathing sound, creating a real instrument with its own soul”.

The Imperial Grand3D adds over 50 controls to design the sound you’re looking for. Create your own piano from detailed physical parameters, such as hammer hardness and velocity, dynamic response, even the interaction between different strings. Not a tweaker? Right out of the box, there are 16 preset modules that let you choose from the 5′ 8″ Bösendorfer model 175, the 225, the 280, or even the luxurious 9’6″ model 290.

The Imperial Grand3D allows you to select and arrange multiple virtual microphones. Set individual levels, choose optimum placements and mix them together to shape that perfect sound. And there are no generic microphones here. You can choose from the best of the best as you select the sound of acclaimed microphones such as the Neumann U87, M149, or the AKG C12VR.

3D Audio brings the Imperial Grand3D into a new audio world. Dial in the separate 3D Effect unit and choose 7.1 channel output (with 24-Bit/192KHz resolution.) Utilizing the complex science of the latest Head Related Transfer Functions, Imperial Grand3D can place your piano into a real 3D space.

Features：

• Imperial Grand 3D gives you absolute control over every aspect of a piano. You can adjust hammer actions, microphone positions, sympathetic resonances, dynamics and more. You can even design your own piano.
• Multi-microphone positions enable users to mix between different microphone positions and create new sounds that easily fit into a mix.
• Meticulous Dynamic Response controls enable users to adjust the dynamics of the piano, change the keyboard response, and achieve both realism and playability at the same time.
• The 264-string Sympathetic Resonance System adds “beautiful” harmonies to both pedal up and pedal down notes.
• Imperial Grand3D is able to detect repeated notes and activate True Staccato Mode which precisely reproduces staccato notes.
• Built-in professional Reverb Engine simulates resonances with environment and soundboard, adding extra realism to the sound.
• Actual modeling and soft pedal samples vividly present the sound of three kinds of pedals.
• The separate 3D Effect unit can place the piano into a real 3D space, adding realism to the whole sound.
• Faster load times. Smaller hard drive footprint, less memory and less CPU usage.

Price: EUR 99.00

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Huge Sound – Small Footprint: The Imperial Grand3D starts with the famous bright, rich Bosendorfer style sound, and establishes an incredible level of realism by using patented Hybrid Modeling Technology coupled with complete 3D Audio control.

Physical modeling is at the heart of the Imperial Grand3D sound, but both sampling and synthesis are incorporated to add to the realism. Multiple DVDs, Out of Memory errors and glitches are ancient history. Only 150MB in size, the authentic harmonic colorations of the Imperial Grand3D bring an unmatched depth of sound to any style of music.

Imperial Grand3D features

• Imperial Grand3D gives you absolute control over every aspect of a piano. You can adjust hammer actions, microphone positions, sympathetic resonances, dynamics and more. You can even design your own piano!
• Multi-microphone positions enable users to mix between different microphone positions and create new sounds that easily fit into a mix.
• Meticulous Dynamic Response controls enable users to adjust the dynamics of the piano, change the keyboard response, and achieve both realism and playability at the same time!
• New! Our 264-string Sympathetic Resonance System adds beautiful harmonies to both pedal up and pedal down notes.
• Imperial Grand3D is able to detect repeated notes and activate True Staccato Mode which precisely reproduces staccato notes.
• Built-in professional Reverb Engine simulates resonances with environment and soundboard, adding extra realism to the sound.
• Actual modeling and soft pedal samples vividly present the sound of three kinds of pedals.
• The separate 3D Effect unit can place the piano into a real 3D space, adding realism to the whole sound.
• Faster load times. Smaller hard drive footprint, less memory and less CPU usage.

Price: EUR 99.00

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OldBlackGrand : Everybody keeps on sampling the best and cleanest piano ever… here is a completely different approach. We sampled an old Pleyel Grand Piano (F-71240 model from 1928) with vintage gear like a studer console and tube microphones, it has the rich and warm sound of the old jazz/blues or even classical music recordings.

OldBlackGrand features

• 12,89GB sample bank, no loops Recorded at 24/88,2Khz downsampled to 24/44.1khz.
• 9 velocity layers for the sustain.
• 9 velocity layers for the release.
• Two microphone positions: close (inside) and rim (singer position) that you can enable/diable and mix.
• Adjustable sympathetic resonance.
• Thumps samples and Automatic Pedal noises samples.
• True pedal action technology.
• Midi panel to let you finely control the response of the instrument (velocity remapper, sensivity).
• Advanced scripting capabilities for a real mechanical behaviour simulation and polyphony saving.
• KONTAKT 3 and 4 (optimized for Kontakt 4).

Price: USD 111.00

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Modartt has updated Pianoteq to v3.6.1..

Changes:

• The Mac version now includes a 64-bit version of the standalone application and the Audio-Unit plugin.
• The preset menu was reorganized.
• Fixed issue with multi-channel pitch-bend messages when used for microtuning purposes (with devices such as www.h-pi.com).

Pianoteq is a modelled piano plug-in.

Being a truly modelled piano, the sound is created in real time from scratch through a sophisticated mathematical model, simulating an acoustic piano. It is responding to how the pianist is striking each key and how strings are interacting, just like a real piano does, resulting in an expressive and vivid instrument.

The first generation of pianos began with Cristofori’s pianoforte in 1698 which came to maturity at the end of the 19 century with the acoustic grand pianos. It was followed in the 20 century by the second generation electro-acoustic pianos and the third generation sampled pianos where each note is a recording of how it sounded during a specific moment in time, not taking into account the complexity of the instrument.

According to Modartt, Pianoteq is the first and only piano belonging to the fourth generation, developed in order to go beyond the limitations of the third generation and to become a versatile and innovating tool.

Price:  EUR 249.00 / EUR 399.00

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