FANTASTiC 06 MARCH 2016 | 2.03 GB

Sampled from a

Yamaha CP80

compact electric grand, the Model 80 is a work of love and an homage to the sound that defined an era.

The electric piano was

properly restored and tuned

before being sampled. Special care was taken in recreating the characteristic edgy sound of the middle registers, the shallow tone of the lows and the stingy highs.

Details, details, details

Achieving a

quality level on par

with our goals from this piano was tough. The onboard electronics are very noisy and the piano picks up a lot of ambient noise even if it’s electric (imagine a guitar with 88 strings and a pick-up for each single string!). Through attention and care, both in restoring, preparing, tuning and sampling this amazing piece of technical excellence, we managed to capture what we believe is the best rendition of this classic compact electric grand piano.

Simplicity, with depth

Our approach to sampled Instruments is to let the musician in you fly free of any technical burden.

Fast, full satisfaction is guaranteed

: you just need to play, the fastest possible learning-curve is always kept as a reference when designing our Instruments. At the same time, when there's that techie-need to

tweak and fine-tune

, our multi-layer user interfaces allow for it, giving you

the best of both worlds.

Advanced sampling and scripting

We believe the real break-through in these ages is creating

advanced, high-quality Instruments

which don't require you to earn a master in computer programming before you

start making music

with them. Making matters easy for the musician always means introducing more and more layers of complication for us developers. First of all we are musicians, and we don't want you to end up putting our products on a virtual shelf and forget about them because they are too hard to learn and use.

Preset-galore

The onboard effects don't require a degree in audio-engineering to make the best out of them.

This is our job

. Just select one of the

23

main Presets and fine tune it using a few carefully selected parameters. The

Compressor & Tape Emulation

section, usually hard to grasp for the inexpert in audio tweaking feature no less than

22

presets with a simple

Amount

knob to rule it to your taste.

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