New AcousticSamples A-Pian v2 | Mac/PC | AU/AAX/VST | (Download/Activation Card)

The A-Pian Grand Piano is an old Gaveau instrument. Gaveau was a French piano manufacturer who established his company in 1847 in Paris and used to be one of the three largest piano makers in France (after Érard and Pleyel).
This particular piano was built in 1960 and is referred to as a "crapaud" ("Petite Grand" in english), - crapauds are even smaller than baby grands (or "quarts de queue" in French).
It has a very unique sound; very bright and full of inharmonicity in the bass due to the short length of the strings.

This library was our very first attempt at finding new ways of sampling a piano - after a few trials we were eventually able to reduce the size without losing the most important features, and this instrument is the result of those efforts.

Mixing settings

On the A-Pian, the Mixing settings are only a control over the volume and pan of the library.

General settings

In this panel, you can change most of the aspects of the library to make it sound just like you want.

Midi settings

In the midi panel, you have access to all of the midi controls to help you adjust the library to your controller or playing style:

• The MIDI remapper allows you to assign any input velocity to any output velocity.
• The MIDI curve controls the midi remapper and will give it a concave or convex shape thus changing a "MIDI sensitivity".
• The Velocity Threshold is simply the minimum velocity that you will have to play to hear the piano, it is present on a real piano.
• The Dynamics curve changes the volume curve of the library.
• The Sensitivity will set the minimum volume for velocity 1 and give you access to all the dynamics that you want.

Sample player

A-PIAN comes with its own sample player, the UVI Workstation 3 (requires v3.1.6 or later).
We provide it for free with every library that you buy, you don't need to buy an expensive sampler to use our products. It works on Mac (10.14 or later intel or arm processor) and PC (windows 10 or later), in standalone or as a plugin (VST / VST3 / AU / AAX ) and in 64 bits only. You can find more info about it here.

Technical description

820Mb uncompressed, 107Mb compressed in lossless flac format, around 232 samples.

3 Velocity layers for the sustain.

3 Velocities for the release.

Pedal down resonance and true pedal action.

Key noises samples.

Sustain pedal noises (up and down), triggered automatically.

Advanced UVI scripting giving you access to a simple yet powerfull interface and advanced features.

 

Copy Protection

We use the iLok system to protect our products and you can choose to register your license to your computer or to an iLok dongle.
If you decide to use an iLok dongle, both V1 and V2 are compatible with our products.
You can activate your license on up to 3 computers or iLok dongles at the same time and you can deactivate one and activate another as many times as you want.

Registration

Once your order is complete, you will be provided with a serial number.