Q Up Arts releases "California Keys" keyboard collection for Kontakt Player

Q Up Arts has announced the release of California Keys for Kontakt (5.5 full version or free player) - a sampled suite of instruments for professional keyboardists and composers, centred around a Fazioli 10ft grand piano presented in stereo and surround, scripted and designed for maximum expressivity and playability, partnered with a set of vintage keyboards carefully captured at a private Topanga Canyon-sited studio in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California.

Features:

• Recorded with 10 different microphones in 192k, 24-bit - Delivered in 44k 24-bit with all microphones.
• Native Instruments NKS Kontrol fully implemented.
• 8 fully discreet channels, with fully user adjustable volume and pan per channel.
• 7.1 Surround presets (choice of two different side mic types) with fully discrete user adjustable channels.
• 5.1 Surround presets with fully discrete user adjustable channels.
• 1 mono close mic over hammers.
• 2 stereo close mics over hammers.
• 1 under mounted bass mic.
• 2 side mics in classical ORTF position.
• 2 rear room mics.
• 2 front room mic.
• Vintage E-Piano electric piano.
• Vintage W-Piano electric piano.
• Vox Continental organ.
• Farfisa organ.
• Clavinet D6.
• Hammond A100 tonewheel organ.
• 10 ft grand with 10 mic channels, pedal sounds, key let offs, sustain pedal, all controllable via the V.M.S. dashboard.
• Piano recorded by Robert Abeyta.
• Keyboards recorded by Douglas Morton.
• Keyboards played by Arlan Oscar.
• Kontakt programming and scripting by Michael Scott.
• Piano played by Candace Winterton.
• Produced by Douglas Morton.

California Keys can be purchased and downloaded (as around 8,000 samples needing approximately 40 GB disk space) for a time-limited promo price of $199 until the end of March 2018, rising thereafter to $499, from quparts.com (It is alternatively available on a surfboard-shaped USB memory stick as a collector's item).

Watch Q Up Arts co-developer and co-designer Michael Scott's in-depth video walkthrough of California Keys: YouTube/KTTwUSt0p-s