Cinesamples has introduced a new virtual piano, Piano in Blue, that features the Steinway Concert Grand used for Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue sessions, recorded with classic gear.
Cinesamples recorded the Steinway Model D Concert Grand, previously located in the Columbia Records 30th Street Studios with two Columbia Nuemann U49 microphones. The signal was captured direct and also after routing it through a vintage tape machine.
Features:
- 1949 Steinway D via Neve 8078 Console
- 8 Velocity layers sampled chromatically
- 9,300 Samples
- 3 Microphone positions
- Close / Vintage – 2x Neumann M49 near the lid
- Mid – 2x B&K 4007 at the tail of the piano
- Far – 2x Sennheiser MKH20s in the hall
- 2 Processing paths (tape; direct in)
- Studer A800MKIII 24-track analog tape machine
- Programmed by Sam Estes; scripted by Greg Schlaepfer; recorded by Tim Starnes
The Cinesamples Piano in Blue sample library is priced at $129, but is currently available for $99. See the Cinesamples site for details.
Normally I couldn’t care less about new sample libraries. This one sounds good and looks useful. Thanks for the info.
Wow. This is one of the better sampled pianos I have heard. Bummer that I’m not really a Kontakt user. If they had a Live pack version I would grab this immediately.
Live is not powerful enough to cover the features of this sampled piano.
Sadly, until Live gets off their ass and offers 64-bit, using large sample libraries is fraught with peril…
I really like this sampled piano. It’s one of the few sampled pianos out there that sounds natural, and that’s because it was recorded by ear rather than by a precise computer generated scientific velocity calculation or whatever like some libraries are recorded. Cinesamples once again has done a great job with another sampled instrument, and at such a low price compared to some other sampled piano libraries out there, it’s a must have for composers interested in a nice-sounding Steinway D.