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支持系统：Windows.MAC

音源厂商：https://www.chocolateaudio.com/products/model-7

使用采样器：Kontakt 7. Kontakt 8加载

文件大小：8.5GB

Model 7 大钢琴的采样来自 Yamaha C7 大钢琴。我们最初的想法是采样 CFIII，但当我们去租赁处时，我们完全爱上了这架钢琴并选择了它。这架特殊的钢琴自 80 年代以来一直在都灵（意大利）的两个备受赞誉的音乐厅中使用，多年来一直由 Michel Petrucciani 和 Chick Corea 等艺术家演奏。这架钢琴由技术精湛的意大利技术人员不断维护。我们在中型大厅中采样了这架小而大的钢琴，周围环绕着各种各样的麦克风。

微距麦克风
我们从一开始就不满足于一对麦克风或有限的麦克风选择，我们希望确保钢琴在采样和编辑过程后有最好的机会保留其灵魂，这是很难实现的。正因为如此，我们使用的麦克风比最终使用的要多得多。

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麦克风的选择
这些是我们在对编辑的样本进行多次演奏和聆听后精心挑选的麦克风：

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一对 Schoeps CMC6 搭配 MK4 心形拾音头，放置在演奏者的位置

一对 Royer 121 匹配麦克风，放置在打开的盖子内，但与音板保持适当的距离，以拾取直接声音和盖子的反射，这要归功于它们的 8 字形模式

一对改装的 Oktava MK-012 间隔匹配麦克风，放置在琴弦正上方

一对匹配的 Neumann M149 麦克风，用于从中距离拾取声音

这些麦克风，无论是单独使用还是组合使用，都可以为您提供顶级音乐会钢琴所需的最广泛的音色范围。为了保持音调平衡，我们甚至仔细地对所有麦克风进行了相位对齐。

点菜式混音
有人可能会认为，有四种不同的麦克风选择和组合加上混响，就不可能找到完美的平衡。

事实并非如此。

我们相信，这款乐器通过使用其内置混音器，可以轻松打开许多不同的声音世界。此工具专注于通过几个定制控件轻松获得结果：

音量

声像调节，将声音置于特定方向

静音和独奏

宽度，控制立体声信号的宽度

混响发送，由板载 IR 混响处理的每个麦克风的信号量

主效果是带有精选频率中心的 3 频段均衡器、预设压缩器和磁带模拟以及 IR 混响

在每个单通道上，您可以使用简单但非常有效的 3 频段均衡器

最佳资源管理
同时处理带有四个麦克风的钢琴乐器会给系统资源带来沉重的负担。CPU 和磁盘流的播放声音量、RAM 中的预加载和加载时间可能会受到影响。

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单击"清除静音"只会从内存中删除所有静音通道，不再占用 RAM、CPU 和流媒体资源。

我们为您完成艰苦的工作

简单而有深度
我们对采样乐器的态度是让您内心的音乐家摆脱任何技术负担。我们保证快速、完全满意：您只需要演奏，在设计我们的乐器时，我们始终以最快的学习曲线作为参考。同时，当有技术需要调整和微调时，我们的多层用户界面可以实现这一点，让您两全其美。

高级采样和脚本
我们相信，这个时代的真正突破是创造先进的、高质量的乐器，这些乐器不需要您在开始使用它们制作音乐之前获得计算机编程硕士学位。让音乐家的事情变得简单总是意味着为我们开发人员引入越来越多的复杂层次。首先，我们是音乐家，我们不希望您最终将我们的产品放在虚拟货架上并忘记它们，因为它们太难学习和使用。

预设丰富
我们的效果部分不需要音频工程学位即可发挥其最大作用。

这是我们的工作。

只需选择 34 个主要预设中的一个，然后使用一些精心选择的参数对其进行微调即可。

压缩器和磁带模拟部分通常很难让不熟悉音频调整功能的人掌握，它具有不少于 22 + 22（仅使用单个麦克风时，标有 + 号）的预设，并带有一个简单的量旋钮来控制它以符合您的口味。

混响部分对于原声钢琴尤其重要，它拥有内部开发的 101 个精心挑选的高质量脉冲响应集合，这些脉冲响应来自真实空间以及备受推崇的复古和现代工作室硬件。

The Model 7 grand piano was sampled from a Yamaha C7 grand coda piano. Our first idea was to sample a CFIII, but when we went to the rental-house we totally fell in love with this one and chose it. This particular piano has been in constant use since the '80s in two highly praised concert halls in Torino (Italy) and has been played by artists like Michel Petrucciani and Chick Corea along the years. This piano is under constant maintenance by highly-skilled italian technicians. We sampled this little-big monster of a piano in a medium-size hall surrounded by a smorgasbord of microphones.

Macro-phones
We didn't settle for a single pair or a limited selection of microphones from the start, we wanted to make sure that the piano, after the sampling and editing process had the best chances to preserve its soul, something which can be hard to achieve. For this very reason, we used many more microphones than the ones we ended up with.

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Choice of Microphones
These are the Mics we carefully selected after multiple playing and listening sessions on the edited samples:

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a Schoeps CMC6 with MK4 cardiod capsules matched-pair placed at the player's position

a Royer 121 matched-pair placed inside the open-lid but at a healthy distance from the soundboard to pickup both the direct sound and the reflections from the lid thanks to their figure-8 patterns

a modded Oktava MK-012 spaced matched-pair, placed right above the strings

a pair of matched Neumann M149 mics to pick up the sound from a medium distance

These microphones, by themselves or combined, give you the widest possible gamut of tonal colors you might need from a top-notch concert piano. To preserve tonal balance, we even carefully phase-aligned all of the microphones.

Mixing a-la-carte
One might think that having four different choices and combinations of mics plus the reverb would make finding the perfect balance impossible.

It is not.

This Instrument, we believe, easily opens up many different sonic worlds by using its on-board mixer. This tool is focused on easy-to-get results with a few tailored controls:

Volume

Panpot, places the sound in a specific direction

Mute and Solo

Width, controls the width of the stereo signals

Reverb Send, amount of signal for each microphone that gets processed by the on-board IR Reverb

Master effects are a 3-band EQ with cherry-picked frequency centers, a Preset Compressor & Tape Emulation and the IR Reverb

On each single channel you might use a simple but very effective 3-band EQ

Optimal resources management
Dealing with a piano Instrument featuring four microphones at the same time can bring an heavy load on system resources. The amount of playback voices for the CPU and Disk Streaming, preload in RAM and load times could suffer.

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A click on Purge Muted simply removes from memory all muted channels, not anymore weighing on RAM, CPU and streaming resources.

We do the hard work for you

Simplicity, with depth
Our approach to sampled Instruments is to let the musician in you fly free of any technical burden. Fast, full satisfaction is guaranteed: you just need to play, the fastest possible learning-curve is always kept as a reference when designing our Instruments. At the same time, when there's that techie-need to tweak and fine-tune, our multi-layer user interfaces allow for it, giving you the best of both worlds.

Advanced sampling and scripting
We believe the real break-through in these ages is creating advanced, high-quality Instruments which don't require you to earn a master in computer programming before you start making music with them. Making matters easy for the musician always means introducing more and more layers of complication for us developers. First of all we are musicians, and we don't want you to end up putting our products on a virtual shelf and forget about them because they are too hard to learn and use.

Preset-galore
Our effects section doesn't require a degree in audio-engineering to make the best out of it.

This is our job.

Just select one of the 34 main Presets and fine tune it using a few carefully selected parameters.

The Compressor & Tape Emulation section, usually hard to grasp for the inexpert in audio tweaking feature no less than 22 + 22 (for when using a single Mic only, marked with a + sign) presets with a simple Amount knob to rule it to your taste.

The Reverb section, so critical for acoustic pianos in particular, features an in-house developed collection of 101 carefully selected high quality Impulse Responses coming from both real spaces and revered vintage and contemporary studio hardware.