Production Voices 300 Grand Full
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300 Grand
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300 Grand is Production Voices’ latest and most ambitious piano sample library to date.
Experience a modern 9 foot performance grand piano sampled in a real concert hall providing an immersive audio experience with the precision and control of a multi-track recording.
300 Grand is an exceptionally high-quality piano sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt Player, consisting of nine microphone perspectives and over 100,000 samples of a Yamaha CFX grand piano recorded in a world-class recital hall.
From big bold forward sounds to lyrical pianissimos with natural ambience and everything in-between, 300 Grand has it covered.
300 Grand is ideal for Studio Production, Stage Production, Film Score Production, Practice, Performance and more!
9 foot performance grand sampled in a concert hall. Provides an immersive audio experience with the precision and control of a multi-track recording.
300 Grand starts with pristine modern concert grand piano in a concert hall optimized for piano performance then deep samples it with premium microphones, varied mic placement, and quality preamps into a software instrument that is joy to practice, perform and record with.
FEATURES
MADE FOR KONTAKT PLAYER
Most piano sample libraries pre-mix the microphones used to sample the instrument into what is considered the most commonly used piano sound, which is usually a more direct sound combined with some microphones a little further out from the instrument. This makes the instrument memory size smaller, uses less polyphony and narrows the choices. If you want a more distant sound, you would add artificial reverb to the sound.
300 Grand can do this as well. Our presets are setup to quickly give you that typical direct polished piano sound, but because the microphones are not pre-mix and merged, 300 Grand will use more voices (polyphony) to get this sound, but it allows 300 Grand to vastly increase the piano sonic pallet.
The real benefit to multi-mic sample libraries, such as 300 Grand, is that you get every sonic possibility from intimate close sound on the strings to distant hall sound and everything in-between. 300 Grand is purposely setup from left to right on the mixer to go from direct, less ambient to more naturally ambient microphone perspectives. There is no need to simulate the sound of the piano in the hall as the true samples from the hall are available.
Each microphone perspective also brings its own flavour based on the mic type and placement. The Coles ribbon microphones just outside the piano are an excellent example of character being brought into the sound. For modern music production, these ribbon microphones are perfect for adding character and warmth. For classical purists, the uncoloured sound of the distant microphones would give a truer piano sound.
AMBISONIC 3D SOUND
The ambisonics channel provides complete 3D sound of the piano allowing users to rotate the sound direction from any spherical direction 360 degrees up, down, left or right. The virtual microphone can be pointed at the piano or the room or anywhere in-between. The ambisonics channel was recorded using a Soundfield microphone. Ambisonics is the most flexible audio format allowing for a single mic through to 5.1 surround sound and beyond! The ambisonics output can be mapped to your digital audio workstation for external ambisonic processing in plugins such as Harpex and SurroundZone2.
Film and game composers as well as sound designers will appreciate the ability to put piano sounds into virtual reality worlds in full ambisonics or surround sound with very little effort compared to traditional sample libraries.
PREMIUM MICROPHONE SELECTION
Microphone selection and placement makes all the difference to a quality recording. Audio engineers the world over have relied on the sound quality and tone of standards such as U87, 414 and Coles microphones. The signal path for the sampling of 300 Grand represents the best of the best from microphones to preamps and to converters. It’s a bold claim, but rings true in the sound of 300 Grand.
Neumann U87 – Hammer
Rode NT2A – Inside
Neumann M149 – Outside
Coles 4038 Ribbon – Outside
Soundfield MK V – Outside lid
Crown SASS – Binaural Player position
AKG 414 XLS – Stage
Schoeps ORTF – Hall
Sennheiser Omni – Hall
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
REAL CONCERT HALL
PRECISION VELOCITY PRESETS
NOTE FROM the DEVELOPER
300 Grand is Production Voices’ most ambitious project to date! We set out to record a performance grand in a true performance venue with the best equipment with as little compromise as possible. We captured the true sound of a performance grand and still have samples that excel in other styles of music that require a drier (less reverb) sound. Everything for the sampling session came together to capture lightning in a bottle, so to speak. Sampling sessions require the piano to be available at the same time as the venue is available for ten days or more (which is next to impossible with concerts and events going on) while the producer/engineer was between projects and I was not working on something else. Not to mention having the piano technicians available everyday for tuning and such. We got a few strange looks when we said we needed 24 hour access and would be recording around the clock to get the project sampled in time. With three hard drives full and 10 days of shared 12 hour shifts later, we had our sampling session.
It took months to edit the sessions into something that we could hear for the first time, but the moment I first played these early sample edits, I knew we had something special. The velocity layers were so smooth that I couldn’t believe the sound was coming from a controller. The Coles ribbon microphones just brought out the huge low end of the instrument and the hall mics just added a realism I hadn’t heard before by using reverb alone.
Halfway through the project, COVID happened. No one saw it coming and it delayed everything, but we are all getting used to the changes. In the end, we produced what I believe to be one of the best sampled piano performance libraries ever made. A piano library with more sonic variety from the 9 microphone perspectives than previously available. From big bold forward sounds to lyrical pianissimos with natural ambience and everything in-between, 300 Grand has it covered.
My hope is that 300 Grand inspires your playing, compositions and productions and is right at your finger tips through your practice sessions, live performances and recordings for many years to come.
Jason Chapman – Production Voices
https://www.productionvoices.com/product/300-grand/
市场相似产品参考:
VSL Synchron CFX
Garritan CFX
Native Instruments Noire
本帖最后由 allentsei 于 22-7-29 13:01 编辑
300 Grand
$149.00
AVAILABLE NOW!
300 Grand is Production Voices’ latest and most ambitious piano sample library to date.
Experience a modern 9 foot performance grand piano sampled in a real concert hall providing an immersive audio experience with the precision and control of a multi-track recording.
300 Grand is an exceptionally high-quality piano sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt Player, consisting of nine microphone perspectives and over 100,000 samples of a Yamaha CFX grand piano recorded in a world-class recital hall.
From big bold forward sounds to lyrical pianissimos with natural ambience and everything in-between, 300 Grand has it covered.
300 Grand is ideal for Studio Production, Stage Production, Film Score Production, Practice, Performance and more!
9 foot performance grand sampled in a concert hall. Provides an immersive audio experience with the precision and control of a multi-track recording.
300 Grand starts with pristine modern concert grand piano in a concert hall optimized for piano performance then deep samples it with premium microphones, varied mic placement, and quality preamps into a software instrument that is joy to practice, perform and record with.
FEATURES
300 Grand (Kontakt Player version)
- 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
- Native Access installation
MADE FOR KONTAKT PLAYER
300 Grand is made for Kontakt Player. Simply put, purchase 300 Grand and no additional sampler software needs to be purchased.
300 Grand is Production Voices first licensed sample library for Kontakt Player. This means no additional software is necessary to use 300 Grand and existing users of Kontakt will have the library show up in the Library tab. 300 Grand is also compatible with Kontakt 5.8 and Kontakt 6 and above.
Native Instruments has an upgrade path from Kontakt Player to Kontakt. Users that upgrade or already have Kontakt 5.8 and above can access Production Voices other sample libraries for Kontakt such as Concert Grand and Production Grand 2.
Most piano sample libraries pre-mix the microphones used to sample the instrument into what is considered the most commonly used piano sound, which is usually a more direct sound combined with some microphones a little further out from the instrument. This makes the instrument memory size smaller, uses less polyphony and narrows the choices. If you want a more distant sound, you would add artificial reverb to the sound.
300 Grand can do this as well. Our presets are setup to quickly give you that typical direct polished piano sound, but because the microphones are not pre-mix and merged, 300 Grand will use more voices (polyphony) to get this sound, but it allows 300 Grand to vastly increase the piano sonic pallet.
The real benefit to multi-mic sample libraries, such as 300 Grand, is that you get every sonic possibility from intimate close sound on the strings to distant hall sound and everything in-between. 300 Grand is purposely setup from left to right on the mixer to go from direct, less ambient to more naturally ambient microphone perspectives. There is no need to simulate the sound of the piano in the hall as the true samples from the hall are available.
Each microphone perspective also brings its own flavour based on the mic type and placement. The Coles ribbon microphones just outside the piano are an excellent example of character being brought into the sound. For modern music production, these ribbon microphones are perfect for adding character and warmth. For classical purists, the uncoloured sound of the distant microphones would give a truer piano sound.
AMBISONIC 3D SOUND
The ambisonics channel provides complete 3D sound of the piano allowing users to rotate the sound direction from any spherical direction 360 degrees up, down, left or right. The virtual microphone can be pointed at the piano or the room or anywhere in-between. The ambisonics channel was recorded using a Soundfield microphone. Ambisonics is the most flexible audio format allowing for a single mic through to 5.1 surround sound and beyond! The ambisonics output can be mapped to your digital audio workstation for external ambisonic processing in plugins such as Harpex and SurroundZone2.
Film and game composers as well as sound designers will appreciate the ability to put piano sounds into virtual reality worlds in full ambisonics or surround sound with very little effort compared to traditional sample libraries.
PREMIUM MICROPHONE SELECTION
Microphone selection and placement makes all the difference to a quality recording. Audio engineers the world over have relied on the sound quality and tone of standards such as U87, 414 and Coles microphones. The signal path for the sampling of 300 Grand represents the best of the best from microphones to preamps and to converters. It’s a bold claim, but rings true in the sound of 300 Grand.
Neumann U87 – Hammer
Rode NT2A – Inside
Neumann M149 – Outside
Coles 4038 Ribbon – Outside
Soundfield MK V – Outside lid
Crown SASS – Binaural Player position
AKG 414 XLS – Stage
Schoeps ORTF – Hall
Sennheiser Omni – Hall
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
REAL CONCERT HALL
300 Grand is sampled from a 9′ Yamaha CFX in a real concert hall. The perfect blend between American D grands and the brighter Japanese pianos, this CFX allows for lyrical piano lines to sing above softer tones. Without a doubt this is a majestic piano with all the signature sounds that you would expect from this model. The tone is not overly sharp or piercing as on some smaller Japanese models, but without completely rounding out the tone the way other concert grands do. The piano is naturally mechanically noisy, as all pianos are, which makes for an authentic piano sound. You get a modern concert grand at your fingertips with all the controls that an audio engineer would have to create finished recordings right from the software!
CUSTOM MADE PRESETS
300 Grand has some amazing presets to get you playing and enjoying the library right off the get go! These presets were crafted to sound great in a variety of styles and make use of the 9 microphone choices.
The Ambisonic Section also contains presets that cover a variety of virtual microphone positions. The sound pallet possible just from the ambisonics alone would make 300 Grand worth the purchase price! There are traditional stereo microphone perspectives such as XY and Blumlein as well as creative microphone placements that add depth to the room sound. There is plenty to explore in the ambisonics inside of Kontakt, but much more to explore when the ambisonics section is used in a DAW such as Pro Tools or Logic.
The reverb section contains 30+ impulse responses, including IRs (reverb samples) from the concert hall the piano was sampled in, all set with the right amount of pre-delay on each. There are also plates, halls and studio reverbs to enhance the piano performance experience. Every mic perspective also has its own reverb send so the sound can be shaped based on what mics you are using.
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. See the manual for details.
NOTE FROM the DEVELOPER
300 Grand is Production Voices’ most ambitious project to date! We set out to record a performance grand in a true performance venue with the best equipment with as little compromise as possible. We captured the true sound of a performance grand and still have samples that excel in other styles of music that require a drier (less reverb) sound. Everything for the sampling session came together to capture lightning in a bottle, so to speak. Sampling sessions require the piano to be available at the same time as the venue is available for ten days or more (which is next to impossible with concerts and events going on) while the producer/engineer was between projects and I was not working on something else. Not to mention having the piano technicians available everyday for tuning and such. We got a few strange looks when we said we needed 24 hour access and would be recording around the clock to get the project sampled in time. With three hard drives full and 10 days of shared 12 hour shifts later, we had our sampling session.
It took months to edit the sessions into something that we could hear for the first time, but the moment I first played these early sample edits, I knew we had something special. The velocity layers were so smooth that I couldn’t believe the sound was coming from a controller. The Coles ribbon microphones just brought out the huge low end of the instrument and the hall mics just added a realism I hadn’t heard before by using reverb alone.
Halfway through the project, COVID happened. No one saw it coming and it delayed everything, but we are all getting used to the changes. In the end, we produced what I believe to be one of the best sampled piano performance libraries ever made. A piano library with more sonic variety from the 9 microphone perspectives than previously available. From big bold forward sounds to lyrical pianissimos with natural ambience and everything in-between, 300 Grand has it covered.
My hope is that 300 Grand inspires your playing, compositions and productions and is right at your finger tips through your practice sessions, live performances and recordings for many years to come.
Jason Chapman – Production Voices
https://www.productionvoices.com/product/300-grand/
市场相似产品参考:
VSL Synchron CFX
Garritan CFX
Native Instruments Noire
本帖最后由 allentsei 于 22-7-29 13:01 编辑
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大香震 发表于 22-7-27 19:47
制作公司对雅马哈CFX大钢琴进行24bit 96khz采样后, 使用GoodHertz软件转换为16bit 44.1khz.
再次无损压缩 ...
没有超过VSL家的，它家最新Bechstein 1904老立式，已经比10:1高压还多了。
本帖最后由 allentsei 于 22-7-27 20:28 编辑
大香震 发表于 22-7-28 17:35
最近一直在用SampleTank 4的钢琴,
IK贝森朵夫97键皇家钢琴是我用过的目前最好的97键大钢琴.IK采样这架97键 ...
这个音色我怎么感到有些薄呢，难道是不会调