Chocolate Audio – The 88 Series: Model D Grand (KONTAKT)

By | September 14, 2016

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The Model D grand piano was sampled from a Hamburg-made 1939 Steinway D274 grand coda piano. This particular piano has been in use in various venues in Italy and has been played and praised by many top-level international classical and jazz players. This piano’s age definitely guarantees it the vintage moniker, nonetheless it went through proper maintenance and restoration over the years by highly-skilled italian technicians. It totally resonates with all of the great music played through it. We sampled this piece of history in a medium-size hall surrounded by a plethora of microphones.

Features:

  • 8.32 GB (lossless compressed) library size, 7979 samples.
  • 4 microphone sets: Schoeps CMC6 MK4s, Neumann KM184s, AKG C12 tube mono and Neumann M149 stereo room set.
  • 11 sustaining dynamic layers, chromatically sampled.
  • 12 release trails layers, chromatically sampled.
  • independently controllable sustain-pedal resonances.
  • key-release noise for added authenticity.
  • sustain-pedal down and up noise layers.
  • sampled with Millennia, Neve, SSL and Focusrite preamps fed direct into Apogeeconverters.
  • all of the details of the piano recreated through the use of our custom advanced scripting.
  • recorded at 24-bit / 96 kHz, released at 24-bit / 44.1 kHz.
  • easy-to-use mixer for extreme sound-mangling.

Kontakt engine features:

  • custom User Interface.
  • velocity curve management.
  • piano tone control, makes the piano sound softer or harder under your fingers.
  • custom touch responsecontrol: set at minimum you’ll get the full sound of the piano with added latency (good for mixing), at higher levels cuts more and more into the piano pre-attack portion allowing for very low perceived latency when needed (good for tracking and live playing).
  • fine-tuned three-band EQ for each channel.
  • many under the hood techniques to make the piano true to the original (life-like re-pedaling, release trails attenuation, intelligent attenuation of each single dynamic layer for maximum dynamic response…).
  • master realism control and specific control over release trails, key off, resonances and pedal noise levels.
  • envelope controls.
  • 17 custom, high quality IR reverbs.
  • 22 (+ 22) compressor + tape presets.
  • 34 factory presets + user-savable presets.

 

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