In 1894 Esquire Ivar Berg ordered a brand new grand piano. He was arranging
for his wedding, and wanted this to be a wedding gift to his bride. As the
owner of the RÃdjenÄs estate outside EksjÃ, Sweden, he was a wealthy man. It
was natural for him to place this order with the leading piano manufacturer
in Scandinavia at the time: J.G. MalmsjÃ. This is the Piano wich were
sampled... Oh well this model and a few others hehehe...
The Malmsjà Acoustic Grand includes three instruments: The original "MalmsjÃ
Acoustic Grand", "Malmsjà Acoustic Grand X", and "Malmsjà Rock Grand". The
original MAG contains only the originally recorded velocity layers: pp, p,
mf, and f . The "MAG X" version has an additional ff-layer between C3-C6.
This layer has been conceived by EQ'ing the f-layer so that it would appear
to be played "harder". The "Malmsjà Rock Grand" has had the samples between
C3-C6 in the f-layer replaced with the EQ'd ff-samples.
"Malmsjà Acoustic Grand" has been developed to accurately reproduce the
keyboard response, and every subtle dynamic nuance of the original
instrument. To take advantage of this, it is important to set up your
keyboard as outlined in "Optimizing Your Keyboard Setup for MAG" .
Every key is sampled individually, and every tone is allowed to ring until
the end of its natural decay. The piano has been sampled with the damper
pedal down only.
There are several advantages to this approach:
1. The number of samples is drastically reduced, allowing for orchestra
instruments to share RAM with the piano.
2. Normal sustain pedal technique works just like on a real piano (i.e. the
pedal is pressed down after the key). 3. Full length samples may be used
on each key without exceeding GigaSampler instrument size limits.
Also worth knowing:
1. The original piano has a true stretched tuning -no retuning of individual
samples has been done. This tuning is slightly wider than a perfectly
well-tempered tuning. This tuning gives a better support to the
harmonics of the piano, improving the sonority of complex harmony as well
as simple chords.
2. The keyboard of the original instrument only extends to A7. The last
notes up to C8 are transposed.
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