Westwood Instruments Alt Grand 是一款极具个性与历史质感的 Kontakt 大三角钢琴音源库，取材自一台诞生于 1930 年代的 Chappell 复古钢琴，承载近百年的音乐记忆与演奏痕迹。该钢琴同时以“原声”和“加毡”两种状态进行完整采样，并可通过专属控制旋钮在两者之间自由混合，从明亮开放到温润内敛，轻松塑造属于你自己的钢琴音色性格。多层力度、踏板上下状态、3 次 Round Robin 以及 5 个独立麦克风位，让演奏细节真实自然，既适合独奏，也能完美融入编曲之中。
在传统钢琴采样之外，Alt Grand 还将原始录音进一步拓展为 23 种可变形的环境与纹理音色，这些纹理由磁带处理、效果器与实验性手法打造，可作为钢琴的氛围底层，也能单独作为有机合成音色使用，极大拓展了创作空间。无论是电影配乐、影视配乐、现代流行制作，还是氛围音乐与创作型歌曲写作，Alt Grand 都能在真实钢琴表现力与声音设计之间取得完美平衡。对于追求复古气质、可塑性与高品质演奏体验的制作人和作曲家而言，这是一款极具长期价值的 Kontakt 钢琴音源。
Westwood Instruments Alt Grand KONTAKT
KONTAKT – 24,49 GB
A grand piano beyond tradition
Alt Grand is a unique relic from the 1930s. Filled with the music and memories from almost 100 years of performance.
Captured with and without felt and can be blended for a completely individual sound. With dozens of controls at your fingertips to completely alter the sound and vibe, Alt Grand offers remarkable flexibility. This is a highly detailed and playable piano, recorded through multiple microphones to reveal all of its distinctive personality.
The original recordings have been transformed into over 20 transformative textural layers that can create subtle background ambience or stand alone as atmospheric organic sounds.
An unbelievably valuable addition to your toolkit, this is a grand piano sample library that delivers years of character and extensive tone-shaping possibilities. A must-have for anyone looking for a highly versatile and adaptable piano – from cinema-filling soundtracks to songwriting and modern production.
Natural or felted (or somewhere in-between)
As has been applauded and loved in Alt Piano, we recorded Alt Grand with and without felt. Providing you with two very different and versatile characters. Felting a grand piano is meticulous work and we spent ages on getting the weight and placement of felt just right for every single octave (and in some cases each note).
The natural sound of the piano without felt is bold and open, with the felted recordings much gentler and warmer.
But best of all, you don’t have to choose. There’s a control which lets you blend between the two recordings to dial in a sound that suits you.
Transformative textures
As with most of our sample libraries, we love to create new sounds from the original instruments. Pushing the boundaries and crafting original sounds. With Alt Grand there are 23 brand new textures made from the source recordings. Tape, guitar pedals and some other unusual methods to create a range of incredible sounds.
These can be used in the background behind the piano to create an atmospheric sub-layer. Or they can be used front and centre on their own as a organic synth-like tone.
Each sound has its own unique secondary layer which can be accessed using the Texture slider. What happens is different on every texture and can be used to morph and manipulate the character of sound.
Behind the sampling
We searched for years for the right grand piano and finally found this beautiful 1930s Chappell grand piano. It was shipped all the way to our second home, Nave Studios, where we spent days sampling it. There are plenty of velocity layers, 3 round robins, pedal up and pedal down samples as well as the complete set of felted samples too. A meticulous task but totally worth it.
Recorded in Studio 1, a live room which has a warm and immediate sound. Captured through vintage Neumann and AKG microphones, a rack of Neve 1073 pre-amps and an AMEK Rembrandt desk.
You can choose between 3 production-ready mixes or create your own mix from 5 discrete microphone positions. An incredible tone that captures all the nuance of this piano.
– Character grand piano
– Recorded with and without felt
– Tape FX and dozens of controls
– 23 incredible textures
– 3 production-ready mixes
– 5 microphone positions
– “Live” player controls
– Over 100 presets
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