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| Product | Galaxy Steinway 5.1 |
| Developer | Best Service |
| Primary Type | Piano / Keys |
| Price (MSRP) | €249 |
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Galaxy Steinway 5.1 is a Native Instruments Kompakt based plugin instrument that features a Steinway Grand Piano recorded at one of the world's most up-to-date and technically advanced studios - Galaxy Studios in Belgium. Recorded in 24-bit /48Khz in Galaxy Hall (size 320 square meters, 8 meters room height) via Neve Capricorn digital console directly to ProTools. Microphones used include: close miking with 5 Bruel & Kjaer mics, room mics from Neumann plus SPL / Brauner Atmos system for the 5.1 recording of the grand piano. Separate microphone for the LFE channel.
- Optimized for full 5.1 surround sound, although you can choose to load a subset (front L/R).
- Mapped in whole tones, with ten velocity layers to provide a natural sound quality over the whole dynamic range.
- Sample length up to 40 seconds, no loops.
- Approximately 6.5 Gigabytes of audio samples.
All KVR Audio news items relating to Galaxy Steinway 5.1.
| Best Service announces Galaxy II - Grand Piano Collection | 13th July 2007 |
| StormDrum, Galaxy Steinway, Artist Drums and Art Vista VGP all now on Receptor | 5th May 2006 |
| EastWest August 2004 Offers | 16th August 2004 |
| Best Service Kompakt modules updated to v1.0.3.010 | 22nd July 2004 |
| Best Service Galaxy Steinway 5.1 shipping | 23rd April 2004 |
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