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\uffe5Another great addition to Cinesamples\u2019 Artist Series, Randy\u2019s Prepared Piano is a collection of 3 pianos recorded at the MGM Scoring Stage and Hollywood Scoring Studios Stage in Los Angeles, California. It features various extended techniques used by Los Angeles studio musician, Randy Kerber.<\/p>\n
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Several years ago at a recording session at The Bridge, we were recording Nami\u2019s Theme, a spacious piano duet between Randy Kerber (piano, Randy\u2019s Celeste), and Amy Tatum (flute). During one of the breaks, Randy started playing with some museum putty inside the piano, giving the instrument a delicate, masked and suggestively underwater tone. It was such a clever and unusual sound that we decided to build an extended piano solo completely out of Randy\u2019s prepared piano techniques in the middle of the duet.<\/p>\n
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We always spoke of recording a sample library of those sounds and more, and this year, we finally got around to it. Renowned for his sensitivity and tone, Randy is one of the greatest film musicians of all time. Though he mostly composes music now, we were able to get him down to the studio to lead this project. We recorded the following sounds:<\/p>\n
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\u2013 Rubber Mallets on the strings
\u2013 Finger Muted strings
\u2013 Dimes placed between the strings
\u2013 Museum putty to create harmonics
\u2013 Fingered harmonics
\u2013 Light chains on the strings
\u2013 A metal bar placed between the strings
\u2013 Ping pong balls on the strings
\u2013 Hitting the cross bars
\u2013 String zingers (scraping the strings)
\u2013 Many dual piano samples<\/i><\/p>\n
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FEATURES<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Articulation Selector<\/i><\/strong>
On the top-right is a pull-down menu of the various articulations. There are separate Instruments for each articulation as well.<\/p>\n
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PEDAL VOL:<\/i><\/strong> Adjusts the volume of the piano\u2019s pedal mechanism. The default is a delicate pedal action. Click \u201cHard\u201d for a more aggressive action.
HAMMER VOL:<\/i><\/strong> Adjusts the volume of the key-hammer action.
DYNAMIC RANGE:<\/i><\/strong> Lower levels increase the volume of softer samples. Higher levels increase the difference between soft and loud samples.<\/p>\n
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EQ<\/i><\/strong>
Apply a 4-band EQ to each mix perspective separately. Choose the mix perspective, then adjust the gain and frequency for each band. The high and low bands are shelves. Keep in mind \u2013 resetting the EQ on one mix perspective will not reset the EQ on the others. Check other active mix perspectives to see if the EQ is active.<\/p>\n
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MIXER<\/i><\/strong>
There are 5 mix perspectives: Full, Close A, Close B, Close C, and Room. The Full mix is a combination of Close C and the Room. Close A, B, and C are different microphone pairs, each offering a unique texture.<\/p>\n
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Below each mix, you may advance or delay its sample playback +\/- 100ms using a left-to-right slider. Each mix allows for a left-right swap (LR), phase invert (\u00d8), a stereo widener (select either Haas or Mid\/Side), left-right pan, reverb send (PRE- or POST-fader), and gain.<\/p>\n
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Also included in the mixer is the REVERB type and return and an ATTACK setting to soften the attack of each note rendering a more cinematic sound. Higher ATTACK values will reduce the volume of the sound.<\/p>\n
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At the top of the mixer, there\u2019s a pull-down menu labeled 01 Full Mix. Click on that to select between mix presets. Create your own and save it as an .nki.<\/p>\n
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The piano recorded at the MGM Scoring Stage has similar and different articulations. Its interface is a scaled down version of the same functions.<\/i><\/p>\n
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CINESINE LITE<\/strong>
CineSine LITE is an additional patch made of a simple sine wave and tuned pink noise. Try adding it to Randy\u2019s Prepared Piano and try our MULTIS. It pairs well with the full-range patches giving an added warmth, body, and sustain. You can turn off and on the Sine wave and the Pink noise and change their volumes separately. CineSine LITE offers a standard ADSR envelope, tape saturation, and stereo width (which applies better to the sine wave rather than the pink noise).<\/p>\n
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PATCHLIST
02 Dimes
03 Putty Harmonic
04 Harmonics
05 Chains
06 Rubber Mallet
07 Metal Bar
08 Metal Bar High
09 Putty Strum
10 Ping Pong Balls
11 SFX Boom
12 SFX Hit
13 SFX Zing
14 Dual Octaves
15 Dual One Shot
16 Dual Textures
17 MGM \u2013 Mute
18 MGM \u2013 Nail
19 MGM \u2013 Bell
20 MGM \u2013 Strum
21 MGM \u2013 Knock
22 CineSine LITE
MULTIS
24 Finger Mute + Sine
25 Dimes + Sine
26 Putty Harmonic + Sine
28 Chains + Sine
27 Harmonics + Sine
29 Metal Bar + Sine
30 MGM \u2013 Mute + Sine
31 MGM \u2013 Nail + Sine
32 MGM \u2013 Bell + Sine
Randy\u2019s Prepared Piano is scripted for Native Instruments\u2019 Native Kontrol Standard (NKS) format.<\/i><\/p>\n
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Works with the FREE version of Kontakt 5.6.8 and above.<\/p>\n
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