Garritan Abbey Road Studios CFX Concert Grand Plug-In from Garritan New

Merchant: Gear 4 Music
Brand: Garritan
Product code: 1113-45
Merchant's Category: Musical Instruments

Garritan Abbey Road Studios CFX Concert Grand is a high-quality sample library of a Yamaha CFX grand piano. Recorded at Abbey Road Studio One this library features multiple mic positions as well as three different recording styles. Highly experienced engineers from Abbey Road have used a variety of high quality and some vintage microphones to produce this. You will find that this library has a perspective or recording sound that suits your music whatever project youre working on. This library uses the ARIA player also used by Garritans other libraries. ARIA Player is a free software that can either run as a standalone program or as a plug-in (AU VST or RTAS) in DAWs sequencers or notation software. This makes Garritans libraries ideal for many musicians whether you are a producer in a studio or a live performing musician. ARIA player also features Endless Wave technology for efficient streaming of samples from the hard disk. Please Note: This product comes in the form of a digital download code that will be sent to your email for activation.
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Promotion: Yamaha CFX Yamaha Pianos are seen all over the world. They make electric pianos uprights and grand pianos. At the top of Yamahas grand piano range sits the CFX. Beginning development in 1991 the Yamaha CFX Concert Grand debuted in 2010 after nearly 20 years of testing and design. Each part of the traditional piano construction was examined and improved upon. Once the design was nearing completion the piano was secretly tested for thousands of hours all over the world. Each CFX is hand-built by a small team of experienced and skilled craftsmen. All the materials used in construction are selected for their tonal and structural performance. The piano is extraordinarily expressive and can create truly compelling musical performances. The tonal presence of this instrument is unmatched ensuring this piano will be clearly heard even over the largest symphony orchestras. Many Mic Perspectives The engineers at Abbey Road have a huge collection of microphones to choose from. Their knowledge and expertise have been used to provide the ultimate range of mic perspectives and recording styles. There are three styles of recording included in this library each with its own microphones and perspectives from the piano. The first style is classic which most faithfully captures the tonal style of the piano. The second is contemporary this is a bright and hard sound which captures the attack of the hammers however the natural warmth and ambience of the piano is still captured. The final recording style is player these aim to capture the sound from the perspective of the player. This is particularly effective when youre wearing headphones. In addition each style has different mic positions. These are outlined below: Classic Close - 2 x Neumann M49 and 2 x Neumann KM184 Mid field/wide - 2x DPA 40006 the two mics are placed at either end of the piano Main - 2 x Neumann TLM50 placed 2m away from the instrument at a 2.6m height Contemporary Close - AKG C12 and D19 the D19 is placed over the hammers Ambience - Schoeps MK 2H placed in a close position that brings the sound of the room into the mix Player Close - 2 x Neumann KM184 straight forward pair directly above the hammers little room sound in the recording Player - Neumann KU100 Dummy head binaural microphone placed directly behind the musicians head Specifications Operating system:Windows: Windows 8.1 or later 64-bit Mac: MacOS 10.12 through 11.x Processor: Windows: Intel or AMD multi-core processor required Mac: Intel based Apple hardware (works on M1 based systems as well) multi-core processor required RAM: 4 GB RAM minimum required. 8 GB RAM or greater recommended Disk storage: 133 GB of free hard drive space is required for “Full” installation; 24.5 GB is required for “Compact” installation Disk speed: A dedicated hard drive with fast interface (SATA USB 3.0 Firewire 800 Thunderbolt) is recommended. A solid-state drive (SSD) is preferred Soundcard: An OS compatible sound card or external audio device ASIO compatibility recommended Product code: ABBEYROADCFX Internet connection required for download and activation

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