When we chose to create piano Instruments, we carefully chose which upright piano to start from. When facing grand codas, the choice is rather limited, but upright pianos are a totally different world. We wanted a piano capable of producing both a full sound and the shallow on the edge of being out-of-tune tone characteristic of so many historical recordings. We sampled a beautifully made italian upright piano built by Steinbach in Torino and placed it in a mid-size roomy studio surrounded by a plethora of microphones. Features – 5.95 GB (lossless compressed) library size, 4688 samples – 4 microphone sets: Royer ribbon Blumlein and Spaced, Neumann M149 mono and Oktava stereo room set – 8 sustaining dynamic layers, chromatically sampled – 4 release trails layers, chromatically sampled – independently controllable sustain-pedal resonances – key-release noise for added authenticity – sustain-pedal down and up noise layers – sampled with Millennia, Neve, SSL and Focusrite preamps fed direct into Apogee converters – all of the details of the piano recreated through the use of our custom advanced scripting – recorded at 24 bit / 96 KHz, released at 24 bit / 44.1 KHz – easy-to-use mixer for extreme sound-mangling Home Page – http://www.chocolateaudio.com/products/steinbach-upright