REQ: Production Voices 300 Grand
Production Voices has announced the release of 300 Grand, a piano sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt Player that consists of nine microphone perspectives and over 100,000 samples from a Yamaha CFX grand piano recorded in a modern piano recital hall.
Features:
9 microphone perspectives
Ambisonic 3D sound control
72 GB of samples after lossless compression
24 bit 96k source samples converted to 16 bit 44.1k with GoodHertz conversion
Round-robin pedal noise samples with normal and loud settings
Sampled key up mechanical noises from the actual keyboard action
Sympathetic Resonance with on/off and volume controls
Recorded in state-of-the-art Concert Hall
Lynx Aurora & Apogee A/D converters used
Premium API, Focusrite ISA 828 and Millennia HV-3D/8 microphone preamps used
Up to 36 velocities pedal up per key
Up to 36 velocities pedal down per key
16 velocities release samples
Advanced half-pedal control with catch
STUDIO GRADE MIXING CONSOLE
9 Microphone perspectives are impressive on their own, but how 300 Grand handles these sonic choices puts you in the engineer’s seat when you are not on the piano bench. The mixer is a full complement SSL emulation with SSL simulated EQ and compression on every channel. Get the same control as if the piano were recorded on different tracks in a recording studio. Album quality production is the goal with 300 Grand’s mixer section.
Panning on every channel
Solo left or right channels
Invert stereo image on any channel
Dedicated pre-fader reverb send per channel
Multi-output DAW send – Send any channel to DAW mixer
Fully automatable parameters
Channel on/off purges samples to save memory
Mono can sum or be left or right
Full solo, mute controls
PRECISION VELOCITY PRESETS
300 Grand has machine precision velocities across the entire keyboard range. This gives you up to 36 velocities per note for both pedal up and pedal down samples. This creates some of the smoothest dynamics in a sampled instrument. We also made the contraversial decision not to normalize the samples. The samples maintain their nature dynamics in relation to adjoining velocities reducing the need to be manipulated artificially with velocity driven amplifier envelopes. This is only possible because of the precise machine sampling and high velocity counts.
We know that sometimes RAM is pushed to its limit and that some users may want to choose a “lite” version of 300 Grand that reduces the load time and memory usage. For these instances, we have provided a handful of different velocity options in 16, 22, 30 and 32 velocity options. These are the lower limit of the velocities available as the 32 velocity option, for example, actual has up to 36 velocities in the upper register.
To maximize the velocities for 300 Grand, we also included presets with 32 to 36 velocities that divide the microphone perspectives into normal and Ambisonics presets. These presets allow us to overcome Kontakt’s maximum sample (zone) limit to increase the number samples and thus the accuracy of 300 Grand.