Publisher: Soundiron
Website: soundiron.com/products/emotional-piano-kontakt-player-edition
Format: KONTAKT
Quality: 24 bit 44.1 kHz stereo
Description: Emotional Piano is a legendary virtual piano designed for professional use in symphonic music and soundtracks. This walnut (Kawai) grand piano has been carefully sampled and has a deep, soulful and warm sound that is perfectly suited to convey the emotions and feelings in your compositions. Version 2.1 fixed bugs such as the ability to manage and save custom reverb settings.
Released by Tonehammer in 2009, re-released by Soundiron in 2012.
Emotional Piano is a legendary virtual grand piano designed for professional soundtrack and symphonic scoring. This deeply sampled walnut bodied grand piano library has a deep, warm and ponderous sound absolutely perfect for profoundly emotive songwriting and deep, brooding underscores. We focused on capturing the exceptionally wide, resonant warmth and velvety softness of a gorgeous Kawai grand to capture just the right character. The sound of a piano is defined by a thousand things, from the lacquer on the wood to the hardness of the hammer felts. Our goal was to find the softest, deepest, most resonant, rich, lush, warm and truly soulful sound we could imagine in a grand piano – a sound to express our hearts and souls with. You’ll find it perfectly captured here, in the Emotional Piano.
Originally released in 2009 by Tonehammer, our recent updates have added a variety of specialized tone, effect and performance shaping controls on the front instrument panel, providing everything from subtle tonal reshaping to dramatic otherworldly effects that can take you way beyond the physical limitations of any real world piano. We’ve created a variety of ready-made presets that present some of the many sides our piano has to offer. The “master” preset is the sound of our actual piano, essentially just as it feels and sounds in the flesh. The “soft” preset is entirely focused on the softer end of our piano’s dynamic range. Our goal was to dial in the perfect preset for slow, gentle, cinematic compositions. The “gentle blur” preset softens the tone, note shaping and performance characteristics to create a faded, soft and distant character, perfect for moodier, darker pieces. The “jazz” preset has been sharpened, brightened and has it’s dynamic response expanded to provide a tone more ideal for tight jazz pieces. Finally, for the “pseudo-granny” patch we did our best to prematurely “age” our piano and tip it up on it’s side into a pretty reasonable replica of our old busted granny piano.
The special effect presets take the piano a little farther into to the unnatural, ranging from simple stereo effects to growling retro organs. The ambient presets use custom convolution impulses to morph the sound into a wide range of melodic, dark, astral and often undefinable sounds.
Content :
All 88 Keys
An average of 10 dynamic velocity layers per key note and release
Pedal Action Samples
Close microphone position for a full, rich sound
Adaptive Arpeggiator system in some presets
FX Panel with powerful and configurable controls for every effect.
Integrated Reverb Panel Over 40 integrated custom convolution IRs
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