Adam Monroe’s Austrian Grand is a grand piano sample library for Windows VST and Kontakt. This library was created by sampling a 100 year old Bruder Mikula Wien grand piano through a stereo-pair of AEA R84 ribbon microphones. It exists to fill the gap between bright and mellow piano libraries. This vsti features 10 velocity layers, 2 note round-robin, and over 4 gigs of sampled data. Reverb can be incrementally added, and frequency cuts can be triggered via toggle switches to assist the user in shaping the instrument’s tone. The piano has a semi-bright, yet warm, aged-tone. Subtle key noise was left in to add to the realism of the library. The VST version features multi-threaded double buffering and fast C-style arrays and performs well, even on older computers and in lower latencies.
