| Product | IRCAM Prepared Piano |
| Developer | UVI |
| Price (MSRP) | $399.00 |
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UVI joined forces with the world's leading acoustic research center, IRCAM, to bring you this very special instrument.
Recorded at the IRCAM labs in Paris on a Yamaha C7 Grand Piano, IRCAM Prepared Piano boasts 45 contemporary preparation techniques deeply multi-sampled with the finest equipment available by some of the world's leading acoustic technicians.
Download IRCAM Prepared Piano full manual guide (all about the piano and its playing techniques)
Overview
Our powerful UVI technology gives you up to two simultaneous preparations per note and advanced parameter editing, providing nearly endless configuration possibilities. Utilize screws, erasers, coins, clothes-pins, sticks and more–excite the strings with a mallet, plectrum, bow or even an eBow.
Also included is the latest UVI technology, SparkVerb, a highly advanced synthetic reverb that focuses on sound quality and musicality. Add lush atmosphere to any of your configurations instantly.
Quickly explore new sound environments with the built in randomization features and listen as this massive instrument delights your ears with previously unheard timbre and texture combinations.
If you're a musician or sound designer who likes to explore the cutting edge of avant garde, IRCAM Prepared Piano offers an experience like no other.
Features:
- Deep multi-sampling of 45 preparations on the IRCAM Yamaha C7 Grand Piano.
- Over 12,000 samples in total.
- Multiple mic positions.
- Pristine recordings made with the finest mics, preamps and converters available including DPA, Schoeps and Prism.
- Advanced algorithms by the leading UVI scripter, Arnaud Sicard of AcousticSamples.
- UVI SparkVerb ; add lush atmosphere to any configuration instantly.
Compatible With All Sequencers
With the free UVI Workstation 2.0.6 (required version), IRCAM Prepared Piano can work:
- as a stand-alone instrument, compatible with Mac & PC.
- as a VST, AudioUnit, RTAS and MAS plug-in. iLok required.
With MachFive 3 – make the most of all editing features included.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzDX0rXskWE
http://soundcloud.com/uvi-official/sets/ircam-prepared-piano/
Discussion
GraysonHugh I am both interested and amused by the IRCAM Prepared Piano. In my early days accompanying for modern dance classes (and before I knew of John Cage's term "prepared piano") I would place pieces of cardboard, aluminum foil, clothes hangers and other objects between and on top of the piano strings. It created a funky rhythmic texture that pleased me and changed the voices of the piano. I still use this technique occasionally in concerts with my favorite instrument - the acoustic piano. I find it both an ironic and yet predictable development of synthetic music that such an old acoustic "trick" is now a featured electronic instrument. It is of course inevitable. Yet I still prefer the wonderful accidents and raw sound of completely acoustic instruments. I find the majority of compositions using these synthetic techniques to be less innovative, adventurous and original than compositions using purely acoustic instruments. Without the usage of looping, samples, etc. the repetitions and reliance on "sound apps magic tricks" becomes tedious. The "thinking" of the synthesizer is by definition less imaginative than the human mind. I admire the engineering behind such developments - yet I still applaud the much richer world of acoustic music.
-Grayson Hugh
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/scores-for-modern-dance-1997/id317242642
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