Vintaudio has announced the release of its new Upright Piano Collection of VST instruments for Windows, featuring two sampled upright pianos - German Upright and 1908 Clinton Upright.
Each piano was sampled in a pristine acoustically tuned environment with sample notes in 4 velocities pedal up and 4 velocities pedal down plus a piano release layer. "Top of the line" microphones and preamps were used to record the pianos in 24 bits, dithered down to 16 bits using Apogee's UV22 technology, in an original recording pattern which yields a richer and fuller C3 to G4 range which often sounds hollow in stereo recordings. No EQ was needed or used to enhance them.
Both pianos come with enhancements previously only accessible with Vintaudio's Yamaha C7 Grand piano library - both pianos have release samples and sustain pedal effect sounds for pedal up and pedal down, and the levels of these two new features are adjustable with their respective knobs. Both pianos also come with controls for brightness and darkness.
Vintaudio Upright Piano Collection costs $59.95 and is available for Windows as VST instrument plug-ins. Audio demos are available.
