This 9 1/2 foot concert grand piano is Bosendorfer's top of the line.
The extra lower bass strings give superior resonance to this world
class concert grand piano. There are four velocity layers of pedal
up samples, four velocity layers of pedal down samples, and release
note off samples. The release "note off" samples very nicely capture
the ambient sound of the performance hall in which this Bosendorfer
Imperial was sample recorded. These are all actual sample recorded
velocity layers and without any filtering in order to produce
additional "fake" velocity layers, such has been done by other
developers who claim to have eight to sixteen layer sampled pianos.

Many other current sampled pianos claiming to have eight to sixteen
velocity layers have been produced by only sample recording two or
three actual velocity layers, and then applying low pass filtering
onto those samples in order to produce up to sixteen "fake" velocity
layers, and also with only every second or third note sample
recorded, and with the rest of the notes being pitch shifted from
those notes. Sample editing methods used by these developers who
"streamline" their work include batch auto cropping of samples, and
a great deal of batch processing for many different processes. These
sampling "shortcut" methods are much quicker, easier, and with much
less work involved in producing a sampled instrument. The quality of
sound of any sampled acoustic instrument, which has been produced
with these fast streamlined methods of low pass filtering for
producing multiple fake velocities, pitch shifting of notes, auto
cropping, and batch processing for various tasks, is unnatural and
inferior.

Each and every note of the Bardstown Audio Bosendorfer Imperial was
sample recorded at all four velocity levels and articulations of pedal
up, pedal down, and release, and with no pitch shifting of any notes.
In other words, each and every note of the eighty-eight keys on this
sampled Bosendorfer Imperial has been sample recorded nine different
ways, for a total of 792 recorded samples. All sampled notes on "all"
sampled instruments produced by Bardstown Audio have been edited and
tweaked by hand, one note at a time, and with no quick streamlining
methods or batch processing whatsoever.

The most advanced state of the art recording techniques and world
class recording equipment were used to sample record this Bosendorfer
Imperial in a world class performance hall.

This sampled Bosendorfer Imperial is considered by the vast majority
of people to be the best sounding and most playable sampled piano in
the world.

Download File Size:1.26 GB

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