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We are launching our Legacy series with the release of one of the most precious and
sought after pianos in the history of pianos, namely a specific series of ivory covered
Steinway grand that were produced in Germany in 1928. This particular series and era is
known to be one of the best and the building quality still stands unmatched – even the
strings are still original from 1928. It is the perfect piano for soundtrack composers,
songwriters and people looking for an advanced emotional and resonant piano.
Legacy 1928 Grand Piano was recorded with two sets of microphones (close/internal) and
(ambient/player), so users can adjust the sound to their liking ranging from recordings
inside the piano to a natural player perspective. We also added a variety of controls (ex.
pedal volume, release volume, noise reduction, EQ etc) and a visual velocity editor, so you
can fully sculpt the piano to your liking. The piano also includes a great selection of
convolution reverbs and convolution effects – and a bonus selection of morphing patches
(ex. Hang Drum, Pipe Harps, Bells, Guitar) that can morphed directly with the piano.
♥ Troels Folmann
INSTALLATION
THE INSTALLATION OF 1928 LEGACY PIANO REQUIRES TWO STEPS:
1. Installation of core library. The installation of the core library happens automatically using our
download utility. The only thing you have to do type in the download code, which is in the the
receipt of purchase mail you received from us and download 1928 legacy piano. The
download tool automatically downloads and uncompresses the files for you. The only thing
you have to do is to select the directory you want to install 1928 LEGACY PIANO in.
2. Installation of the advanced 1928 LEGACY PIANO UI (User Interface) 1928 LEGACY PIANO
requires an additional installation, since the library is exploring advanced features in Kontakt.
Please follow the guidelines listed below.
ALL USERS OF 1928 LEGACY PIANO MUST INSTALL THE UI IN ORDER FOR THE LIBRARY TO WORK:
1928 LEGACY PIANO has an advanced user interface that must be installed before the library is
loaded into Kontakt for the first time. Because this is a standard open-format Kontakt Instrument,
the UI images and template files must be placed in Kontakt’s default user pictures folder so that
Kontakt can find and load them automatically.
We’ve provided a simple self-installer program to make the process easier. PC users should click
on the file called “1928 LEGACY PIANO PC Installer.exe”. Mac Users should unzip “1928 LEGACY
PIANO MAC Installer.zip” and then run the app called “1928 LEGACY PIANO Mac Installer”. A
small program window will open, asking you to select your preferred language and follow the
instructions. From, there, continue to the screen that asks you to choose your Kontakt 4 User
Picture Folder. For most users, the default path that the app pre-selects for you is the correct
location. You can simply press the Next button and continue until the app has finished. This
library should now be installed and ready to use. Some users with multiple user documents
folders or a customized documents folder location may need to click the browse button and
navigate to the proper user documents folder location or/or may need to install the UI images in
multiple locations to insure that Kontakt can display the UI properly.
TROUBLESHOOTING:
If you load the library and see a series of randomly overlapping grey boxes and sliders, that
means the UI images aren’t installed in the right place. This can be corrected by closing Kontakt
and running the UI installer app again, in some cases multiple times, until you’ve installed the UI
images in every instance of the folder path “../Documents/Native Instruments/Kontakt 4/
pictures/” that you can locate on your computer. The image and template files are tiny and
passive, so you don’t need worry about wasting drive space or cluttering your system.
CORE ARTICULATIONS
1928 LEGACY PIANO contains a variety of patches customized for your need and
system specs. We have memory-conservative versions that are no more then 200MB
and large versions taking 2-3GB of RAM. The main difference is how deeply the
programs are sampled. The larger versions contains 1-2 fully loaded microphone
position and our unique round robin (aka repetition samples). The round robin is x 6
repetitions pr. velocity layer of staccato short notes and x 3 repetitions pr. velocity
layer for the sustained samples.
The ideal user configuration is our high-memory patch, which includes all the samples
in the library, including both microphone positions and fully loaded round robin. We
highly recommend a 64-bit +8GB RAM for using this patch, since its more resource
intensive then the rest. Legacy is programmed very specifically to conserve system
resources, so evne with 400-500 voices playing you should be flying on a decent
Quad-Core system.
ARTICULATIONS
1928 LEGACY PIANO is incredibly easy
to use, yet incredibly flexible. You can
control a massive subset of elements
directly from your keyboard,
including tonal/pitch control, sample
trigger control and all the effects that
are associated to the samples. All
available right on your keyboard.
METAL BOWL: The low keyranges on your keyboard controls type of guitar you are using from
electric clean, electric distorted to acoustic. You will note that all keys (C-B) contains basic chords,
so you can freely combine the different guitars, since they are playing the same rhythm. You can
adjust the volume level of each guitar from the frontpage. Each guitar contains the 12 most
fundamental chords used in song writing today. You can generate an end-chord if you press hard
on the keyboard. Which allows you to create a more elegant ending to each of your chords.
PIPEHARP: The upper mid-keys (C4-D4#) allows you to control the four signature rhythms. All
chords were played in the four most common rhythms used in song writing.
BELL: The high keyranges on your keyboard provides you real-time control of all the effects,
including LOFI, Rotator, Delay, Convolution Reverb (with +40 custom convolutions), Reverb,
PROPANIUM: The upper mid-keys (C4-D4#) allows you to control the four signature rhythms. All
chords were played in the four most common rhythms used in song writing.
CONTROLS
1928 LEGACY PIANO contains a variety of different controls that allows you to fully sculpt the
piano to your liking. The range from basic controls over attack and release triggers, EQ,
convolution reverb, pedal, denoising tool, velocity curve etc.
EQ Controls
Velocity Curve
Convolution Reverb
Dry Mix: This knob controls the dry signal returning from Kontakt's internal convolution engine.
Turning it up past ~36 increases the gain over the original signal level and therefore may increase
noise or cause distortion in some cases.
Wet Mix: This knob controls the 'wet' effected signal returning from Kontakt's internal convolution
engine. Turning it up without balancing it against the dry level can quickly increase the total
combined gain over the original signal level and therefore may increase noise or cause distortion
in some cases.
Pre-Delay: This knob allows you to control the pre-delay of the convolution reverb.
SCORING TIPS
1928 LEGACY PIANO contains a variety of options allowing you to sculpt new sounds out of the
piano. The obvious choice is to blend your piano with the guitar, hang drum, metal bowl, pipe
harp, bell and propanium all featured in the library. Each of these piano-morphed instruments
allows you create new blends and characters. The bell gives you that shimmery fairy tale sound -
where as the hang drum blends more tightly and really gives the phattest bass sound ever
combined with piano.
The convolution reverb is another way of sculpting your sounds. We created a very extensive set of
convolutions for this library and each of them brings a whole new dimension to the piano. One
thing that rocks is to blend both the piano morphs (ex. Hang Drum, Metal Bowl and Bell) and then
activate the convolution reverb for further processing. You can create some totally otherworldly
sounding pianos by this combination and remember you can load several piano morphs at the
same time.
The LEGACY piano also detects your playing style and will trigger different samples based on how
you play. So when you play really fast without sustain the staccato samples really starts shining,
since playing fast on a piano is notably different then playing slow.
But there is no right way of using the library. Its simple of matter of what is right to you ♥ Troels.
8DIO
GENERAL LICENSING AGREEMENT
LICENSE AGREEMENT programming, documentation and musical
performances included in this product.
By installing 1928 LEGACY PIANO you accept the
following product license agreement: REFUNDS
Special thanks to Bill Brown, Ian Livingstone, Alan Steinberger, Kerry Muzzey,
Craig Sharmat, Colin O’Malley, Antongiulio Frulio and Ms. Knox.
If you have any questions, concerns, love-letters or hate mail feel free to send
it to: support@8dio.com
♥ Troels Folmann
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