Dan Dean Bluthner Digital Model One - Virtual Grand Piano
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The Blüthner Digital Model One from Dan Dean is a piano virtual instrument recorded at Skywalker Sound and released in the Native Instruments Kontakt 2 Player. The instrument is loaded with programming features, advanced scripting and breakthrough Impulse Response technologies.
The piano was recorded at Skywalker Sound, one of the quietest studios in the world, both physically and electronically. The superb acoustics, excellent technical implementation and hand selected microphones, cables and preamps optimized the "front end", while Pacific Microsonics digital converters ensured no loss of detail.
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- Virtual piano based on a dry recording of a Blüthner piano, with additional timbral convolution that changes the piano into any one of 260 individual pianos
- There are 12 layers of samples both pedal up and pedal down versions, utilizing Dan Dean's Discrete Sustain technology. The number of samples totals well over 2,000. The piano's pedal down samples have "air" and depth in a spacious stereo field. Every sustain sample is unique - not modeled or computer generated
- Recorded with close microphones resulting in no room reflections or acoustic ambience in the samples - this process offers far greater sonic detail and allows you to add your own reverb, or use the supplied custom created Impulse Response reverbs
- Extremely wide timbral range with very low level details captured with noise free pppp, ppp and pp samples - special emphasis was placed on accurately capturing and programming the piano's rich and colorful low velocity dynamics
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- The software comes loaded with 3 types of custom designed convolution - timbral, reverb and sustain
- Timbral Impulses are literally "sonic fingerprints" of over 260 individual pianos and piano recordings and with the push of a button, you can instantly transform the BDMO's sound into one of discretely different pianos from seven TI categories:
- Classical - timbres captured from some of the world's finest pianos and piano recordings from the past century, capturing not only the sound of the piano, but the proximity effect and other acoustic effects of the performance
- Custom - specifically created to include various Blüthner piano models, such as uprights used in Hollywood films and other vintage pianos from the collection of the Kazimoff family in Los Angeles
- Jazz - includes many different pianos from some of the world's greatest pianos and jazz pianists. Some of these have been captured from films, private recordings and artists' personal pianos
- Pop - brighter, more present, punchier piano timbres with more edge that will cut through a rhythm track
- R&B - derived from some of the world's most famous R&B piano performances, some from New Orleans and very vintage
- Pianos - derived from pianos of other manufacturers built in Europe, Japan and the United States. With a click of mouse, you can transform the BDMO into another manufacturer's sounding piano
- Vocal - set of vocal phonemes with Timbral Impulses based on speech elements such as "oo" (as in boot), "ought" (as in bought), "ss", "tt" and many more
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- A huge assortment of Reverb Impulses is included, ranging from small isolation booth ambience, to very small rooms to very large rooms, scoring stage ambiences, various recital halls, concert halls and finally large symphony halls - choose from crisp, clear, warm and dark variations for even more tonal flexibility
- Realistic sounding sustain is a tremendously complex, near 3 dimensional component with very small amounts of pitch, pan and harmonic movement, depth of field dynamics and other psychoacoustic factors. It is virtually impossible to capture true sustain using discrete samples alone
- Capturing accurate sustain began by recording very accurate pedal-down samples. Additional proprietary recordings were made from which very complex Sustain Impulses were derived using the company's custom algorithms. When combined with the pedal down samples, these SI's provide the dynamic 3 dimensional component you would hear in a real piano
- True Piano Dynamics - proprietary linear dB scaling accurately recreates the true dynamics of the BDMO - each individual sample has its own calibrated dynamic level derived from the actual acoustics of the instruments
- The BDMO instrument patches are built with high accuracy Keyboard Scaling programmed directly into them allow you to choose from 100% (acoustic) to 45% (compressed)
- The BDMO offers built-in custom designed, floating just intonation which can be addressed by either using a 2nd keyboard, or by assigning a MIDI controller to CC#16
- A complete set of patches were created to take full advantage of the Variable Sustain pedal features found in KONTAKT2 - instead of the typical cc#64 on/off switch you can now control the amount of sustain using a special footswitch - you can adjust the sustain amount and depth by pedal pressure
- Highly efficient programming allows the piano to run on a laptop - even with 12 layers pedal up and down (24+ stereo samples per note) and advanced convolution
- KONTAKT 2 Player included
- BDMO can be used as a standalone application or as a plug-In within Logic, Pro Tools, Digital Performer, Cubase, Sonar, Garageband or in any VST, DXi supported application
| System Requirements |
Any computer system that is able to support the KONTAKT 2 player DVD drive for installation Functions standalone or as plug-in |
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