<<<返回首页

支持系统：Windows.MAC

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

使用采样器：Kontakt 7. Kontakt 8加载

文件大小：7.8GB

D 型大钢琴的采样来自汉堡制造的 1939 年斯坦威 D274 大尾钢琴。这架特殊的钢琴曾在意大利的各个场所使用，并受到许多顶级国际古典和爵士乐演奏家的演奏和称赞。这架钢琴的年代绝对保证了它拥有复古的绰号，尽管如此，多年来它还是经过了高技能意大利技术人员的妥善维护和修复。它与通过它演奏的所有美妙音乐完全产生共鸣。我们在一个中型大厅里采样了这段历史，周围环绕着大量麦克风。

微距麦克风
我们从一开始就不满足于一对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。正是出于这个原因，我们使用的麦克风比最终使用的要多得多。

modelD_mic1.jpg
modelD_mic2.jpg
麦克风的选择
这些是我们在多次播放和聆听编辑过的样本后精心挑选的麦克风：

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

一对 Neumann KM184 配对，放置在打开的盖子边缘，从听众的角度看

一个 AKG C12 电子管麦克风，拾取盖子的声音，听众的位置

一对匹配的 Neumann M149 麦克风，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。

19 - Main Ch.PNG
点菜式混音
有人可能会认为，拥有四种不同的麦克风选择和组合以及混响会让人无法找到完美的平衡。

事实并非如此。

我们相信，这款乐器通过使用其板载混音器，可以轻松打开许多不同的声音世界。该工具专注于通过一些定制控件轻松获得结果：

音量

声像，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

主效果是带有精心挑选的频率中心的 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
同时处理具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数量、RAM 中的预加载和加载时间可能会受到影响。

21 - Purge.PNG
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。

简单，有深度
我们为您完成艰苦的工作

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。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做到这一点，让您两全其美。

高级采样和脚本
我们相信，这个时代真正的突破是创造先进的、高质量的乐器，而这些乐器不需要您在开始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架子上并忘记它们，因为它们太难学习和使用。

丰富的预设
我们的效果部分不需要音频工程学位即可充分利用它。

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，通常很难让音频调整方面的非专业人士掌握，它具有不少于 22 + 22（仅使用单个麦克风时，标有 + 号）的预设，并带有一个简单的数量旋钮来根据您的喜好进行调整。

混响部分对于原声钢琴尤其重要，它采用了内部开发的 101 个精心挑选的高品质脉冲响应集合，这些脉冲响应来自真实空间以及受人尊敬的复古和现代工作室硬件。

The Model D grand piano was sampled from a Hamburg-made 1939 Steinway D274 grand coda piano. This particular piano has been in use in various venues in Italy and has been played and praised by many top-level international classical and jazz players. This piano's age definitely guarantees it the vintage moniker, nonetheless it went through proper maintenance and restoration over the years by highly-skilled italian technicians. It totally resonates with all of the great music played through it. We sampled this piece of history in a medium-size hall surrounded by a plethora 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.

modelD_mic1.jpg
modelD_mic2.jpg
Choice of Microphones
These are the Mics we carefully selected after multiple playing and listening sessions on the edited samples:

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

a Neumann KM184 matched-pair placed right on the edge of the open-lid with a listener's perspective

a single AKG C12 tube mic picking up the sound from the lid, listener's position

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.

19 - Main Ch.PNG
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.

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

Simplicity, with depth
WE DO THE HARD WORK FOR YOU

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.