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Grand Passion
Key Features
Full 8 octaves in tonal range – 97 keys (with bass extension)
Warm, orchestral sound, rich in depth and tone color
Powerful bass
Six pre-configured Main Presets: Concert, Intimate, Player, Pop, Ambience, Mighty
Proprietary Vienna Synchron Pianos engine with adjustable sympathetic resonances, pedal noise, key noise and so much more
Per-note EQ, volume, dynamic range and tuning
Advanced Release Sample Technology
Recorded at Stage A of Synchron Stage Vienna

Imperial screenshot

INFO

We’re always striving to improve and optimize our products and procedures – a special challenge, having set a very high bar with the grands we’ve previously captured at Synchron Stage Vienna. Listening back to the virtual representation of our brand-new Bösendorfer Imperial, we believe we’ve created a new milestone in the art of piano sampling.

The Bösendorfer Concert Grand 290 Imperial represents the apex of the famed Austrian piano manufacturer’s precious heritage. Its nine additional sub-bass notes extend the instrument’s key range downward to the low C – for a total range of eight octaves. The extra bass strings create additional harmonic resonance with every key you strike, providing warmth, richness and depth across the entire instrument. The massive soundboard projects an unusually broad frequency range, evoking a sonorous, orchestral timbre.

The Imperial’s magically unfolding tonal character, especially apparent in the pianissimo to mezzoforte range, was meticulously sampled in finely calibrated velocity steps using our proprietary piano robot that we’ve further developed and perfected. To guarantee a consistent sound over all keys, velocities and note lengths, the total recording production time was scheduled as tightly as possible to minimize even the smallest changes in the instrument’s sonic behavior. A sufficient block of time was reserved at the Synchron Stage, but after recording nearly 24 hours a day it still took several weeks to capture the 290 Imperial in its entirety.

What’s more, our proprietary Release Sample Technology was even further refined, allowing the Synchron Player to automatically match hundreds of individual and finely stepped release samples per key to your played notes in real-time. The result is a hyper-realistic playing feel and 100% timbral authenticity.

11 Microphone Positions
With over 4,000 samples per key and almost 20,000 samples per microphone position, the Bösendorfer Imperial boasts breathtaking authenticity. In order to capture this marvelous instrument in one of the best acoustic environments on the planet, our recording engineers used multiple high-end microphone arrays, affording an abundance of options for creating your individual sound.

Microphone Positions

Standard Library Full Library
1. Room Mic (Mix) • •
2. Condenser - Close 1 (Sennheiser MKH 8040) • •
3. Ribbon - Close 2 (Royer SF-24) •
4. Tube - Close 3 (Neumann M149) •
5. Mid 1 (Sennheiser MKH 800) • •
6. Mid 2 (Sennheiser MKH 8040) •
7. Main/Room Mic – Decca Tree Stereo (L/R) • •
8. Main/Room Mic – Decca Tree Mono (Center) • •
9. Main Surround – Stereo (L/R) •
10. High Stereo (3D) – Stereo (L/R) •
11. High Surround (3D) – Stereo (L/R) •

Standard Library Full Library
Sample Amount 108,025 237,655
Download File Size 38.6 GB 91.5 GB
Installed File Size 128.8 GB 295.3 GB

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comments

  Member 15.07.2019 55 55
+1525
That piano is amazing...
4038 samples pair key?
hope someone will do that job and hope to see it soon here!!!
  Member 25.01.2020 100
+28
Not going to happen. You can request a 30 day trial if you email them and be nice about it (not saying you're not nice).

This requires a physical key though (E-licenser). Do you have one???
  Member 24.05.2020 2 8
0
Very likely, it's not going to happen. For one, the size of the standard package is already big enough to probably not be uploaded and released here. Two, the dongle-based copy protection system that VSL uses hasn't been cracked for a long while. And lastly, what's the real point of attempting to crack something as big as this sound library? Sure there may be a few people who want it, but is the demand big enough for the crackers to care enough about it? Your best choice is to look for something else or buy it.
If it's stupid but it works, then it's not stupid.
  Member 24.05.2020 2 8
0
You can whine and scream for it, but you'll never get what you want. Unless it really is something that's demanding.
If it's stupid but it works, then it's not stupid.
  Resident 21.04.2014 1585
+328
Unbelievable piano, such a perfection!

In its history, the piano suffered mistakes and successes over the centuries , achieving as many as '1116' different piano brands, one manufacturer copying the other, plus some patented new ideas, all this based on the afterword of the Austrian-French "Sebastian Erard", he managed to make the piano to play in various ways, either by holding the keys, or by using the harmonic pedal (sustain).

But, starting in 1950, the mechanics of the piano reached its maximum perfection, today we see a few names everywhere, Tv, Shows etc_

Steinway&Sons (Germany)
Bösendorfer (Austria)
Baldwin (Cincinnati, Ohio USA)
Yamaha (Japan)
Kawai (Japan)
RavensCroft (new) (Texas USA)

These few names mean that these pianos have physical perfection inside: They are so precise, the notes return to the rest, statu quo, at the same time when released.

The Harmonic board produces impeccable resonance, where the skulls are dammed hard and stable, thus not to go out of tune easily.
When we turn the skulls to tune, we need a larger movement to tune.
All
the strings follow the same proportional mathematics, so the piano-tuner get precise the "Fine Tune".

That is it, a good piano must tune quickly and with more larger movements.

Strings with larger extension with the correct millimeters.

Knock them out with felts so hard that can be pierced with needles to smooth the timbre (tone).

The weight of the wood of the keys is all the same (lever), as well as the wood that you put on the hammers, generally excellent wood from Brazil.

In other words, a good piano copy&pastes the same weights to every key on the entire piano.
This way, we have the best pianos today:
Steinway&Sons , Bösendorfer , Baldwin , Yamaha , Kawai , RavensCroft

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A recent statistic surveyed what soloists around the world prefer.

Most unpaid soloists prefer this order:
Steinway and Bösendorfer, some popular and jazz players like Yamaha, some classical soloists love Yamaha.

Some famous pianists are paid by companies to play for certain brands. like the canadian Angela Hewitt on Faziolli pianos.

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