Rosewood Grand

Rosewood Grand pairs the sound of a rich, vibrant Yamaha C7 grand piano with innovative technology for an incredible tone and a realistic, immersive playing experience. Thanks to the seldom-recorded details it emulates, you'll feel as though you're seated right in front of a real grand piano.

Among its many appointments, the instrument includes duration-dependent release samples, hammer mechanics, and sympathetic resonance. Pressing the damper pedal engages special damper ambience samples. Due to how the strings freely resonate when the pedal is down, lifting the dampers off the strings, this adds a rich depth to the tone of the piano. Releasing the pedal mutes those resonances, narrowing and focusing its sound.

Together, these details make Rosewood Grand feel highly reactive and interactive. Instead of the typical flat, static response, you'll feel like you're collaborating with the instrument to create music, which is a rare quality to find in a virtual instrument.

Rosewood Grand includes four distinct sample sets to choose between:

• Tuned: The main version, delivering the polished, pure tone of the C7 grand piano.
• Bloom: The piano's unisons were subtly detuned, introducing more motion in each note's sustain.
• Felt: A layer of felt was positioned between hammers and strings, softening the piano's attack and giving it a warm, bell-like sustain.
• Classic: Access the sound of the original Rosewood Grand library, updated with the new engine's capabilities.

We're confident Rosewood Grand will become your go-to piano library, not just because it feels so consistent and lifelike to play, but due to the wide palette of tones it's capable of producing. Whether you need a pristine pop sound, hard-hitting rock rhythms, organic jazz, or moody cinematic tones, Rosewood Grand is ready and capable for every musical occasion.

We've gone to extra lengths to make Rosewood Grand as streamlined and efficient as possible, giving you a solid and reliable performance, whether in the studio or on the stage.

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Key Features:

• Four piano sample sets to choose between: tuned, bloom, felt, and classic.
• Large collection of production-ready factory presets, covering everything from a polished pop sound to a raw, organic jazz tone, and vibrant/elegant classical piano tones.
• Quickly mix between multiple mic positions with the convenient blend pad.
• Damper ambience and sympathetic resonance provide a rich tonal depth missing from other virtual pianos.
• Half-pedaling and slow damper pedal release support for continuous sustain pedal users, along with unique controls to dial in the pedal's response.
• Settings to fine-tune the dynamic response and timbre of the piano to your taste.

Sampling Specifications:

• Over 40,000 samples totaling 55.4 GB of audio content (compressed to 23.3 GB using the lossless NCW audio format).
• 12 velocity layers (except the felted piano sample set, which has 8 velocity layers) with volume interpolation for a true-to-life dynamic range.
• Duration dependent release samples with seamless transitions for natural sounding note releases.
• Adjustable pedal noises, hammer noises, and noise floor layer.

Rosewood Grand licenses Native Instruments' Kontakt Player sampler software. Consequently, owning the full version of Kontakt is not necessary, and Rosewood Grand operates without limitations within the free Kontakt Player application/plugin. This also allows the sample library to be listed in the libraries tab in Kontakt for convenient access.

Rosewood Grand is NKS-ready. The integration with the Native Kontrol Standard presents many benefits, both when using the library in the Komplete Kontrol software as well as in conjunction with Komplete Kontrol hardware, such as the Komplete Kontrol S-Series keyboards and Maschine.

In addition to Rosewood Grand being displayed in the Native Browser among your other Komplete Kontrol instruments, there are a variety of other benefits. For example, thanks to Native Instruments' Native Map technology, you can control the library's various parameters directly through connected hardware right out of the box. Furthermore, the keyswitches and key ranges are shown using Light Guide, an innovative technology that displays the key colors directly on your Komplete Kontrol S-Series keyboard.

We recommend using Rosewood Grand with a Komplete Kontrol S-Series keyboard for the full experience. While not a requirement, you will be able to take advantage of the Native Kontrol Standard for an intuitive connection between software instruments and hardware.