AcousticSamples A-Pian
Grand Piano Virtual Instrument
The A-Pian Grand piano is and old french Gaveau piano. Gaveau was a French piano manufacturer.
The company was established in 1847 in Paris and used to be one of the three largest piano makers in France (after Érard and Pleyel).
This particular piano was build in 1960 and is referred to as a "crapaud" ("Petite Grand" in english), which means that it's a little smaller than a "quart de queue" (baby grand).
It has a very particular sound, very bright and full of inharmonicity in the bass due to the short length of the strings.
This library was our first attempt at finding new ways of sampling a piano. We tried to reduce the size and still keeping the most important parts.
A-PIAN comes with its own sample player, the UVI Workstation 3 (requires v3.1.6 or later), It is included for free, so you don't need to buy an expensive sampler to use the product.
Features
- 820MB uncompressed, 107Mb compressed in lossless flac format, around 232 samples
- 3 Velocity layers for the sustain
- 3 Velocities for the release
- Pedal down resonance and true pedal action
- Key noises samples
- Sustain pedal noises (up and down), triggered automatically
- Advanced UVI scripting giving you access to a simple yet powerful interface and advanced features
System Requirements
- MacOS 10.14 Mojave and above
- Officially supported up to MacOS 14 Sonoma
- Windows 10 and above (64-bit only)
- Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
- 820MB free storage space
- Free iLok account and iLok License Manager
- iLok Machine and iLok USB licensing methods are supported
- Includes 3 activations per license
Plugin Formats
AAX Native, AU, VST2, VST3, and Standalone
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