Walker 1955 Concert D

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1955 Concert D

1955 Concert D
+ Full Mic Collection

Make sure you have 200 GB of disk space… each mic position is about 34GB (24,000 samples!)

*In order to get additional mic positions, you must already own the FULL VERSION of the instrument.

—Each microphone position is roughly 34GB--


1955 Concert D Lite

(The Lite version does not have multiple mic positions)

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    OUR FLAGSHIP PIANO

    A one-of-a-kind 9' Steinway Concert D Grand

    Available for Kontakt Player in Lite and Full versions

    Recorded with insane detail (of course)

    To upgrade from Concert D Lite to "Full", Click Here

    You can upgrade from the Lite —> Full for the price difference between what you paid for Essential and the list price of the full version (with a process to factor in sales during promotions). You can additionally choose to keep your Lite version for a $10 license fee. Send us a message and we'll process your upgrade ASAP! To speed things up, please provide us with this info

    - Original purchase email address
    - Do you want to trade-in or keep your "Lite" license?

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    Message received! We're on it. Please give us 48 hours to respond with the details you need for your upgrade.

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    -Alex and Jonathan

    Listen to the Mic Positions

    Main (Default)
    Mics: AKG C414 XLS, ORTF Stereo
    Position: 2 ft off the side lip at the curve of the piano.
    Qualities: Balanced piano/room tone with a beautiful twinkly high register and tamed low end. Vibrant and hearty with enough air space to breathe.
    Close
    Mics: Neumann U87, A/B Stereo (Omni)
    Position: 6 in off the strings
    Qualities: Extremely intimate and warm with very little room ambience. Rich with string reverberance while capturing all the subtle mechanical sounds.
    Hammer
    Mics: Superlux S241/U3, X/Y Stereo
    Position: 1 ft above pointed directly at the hammers.
    Qualities: Punchy and percussive dynamics, great for pop/rock music.
    Room
    Mics: Schoeps CMC 6, A/B Stereo (Cardioid)
    Position: 6 ft away 8ft high, pointing towards the inside of the lid from the audience perspective.
    Qualities: More room ambience and reverb coloration while allowing the piano to fully resonate into the room. Great for achieving a traditional/classical sound in a concert hall or recital setting.
    Wide Perspective
    Mics: Modified Oktava Mk012, A/B Stereo (Omni)
    Position: 1 ft from the piano at the player’s perspective, spaced at the full width of the keyboard.
    Qualities: An experimental mic pair capturing an ultra-wide stereo image with a unique and enveloping character.
    Binaural Perspective (Bruce!)
    Mics: Stereo binaural dummy head (affectionately named Bruce)
    Position: 2ft from the the keyboard at the player’s perspective.
    Qualities: Realistic spatialization, especially when listening through headphones.
    If you don't see any Waveforms, CLICK HERE!
    Time: 00:000 sec
    Main
    Close
    Hammer
    Wide
    Room
    Binaural
       

    Recently updated to v1.1


    NEW FEATURES

    You can now perform incremental dampening using a compatible pedal OR editing MIDI. This means you can partially "blur" tones and create more subtle phrasing… the pedal is no longer simply OFF and ON.
    Enables non-hammered silent notes on the lowest velocity
    A new sympathetic resonance engine to model the behavior of notes vibrating during the release of dampers on held notes, for realistically transitioning between Dry+Sustain articulations. 3 modes for selecting the quality of this feature are located within the Details page and share association with the Half-Pedaling engine.


    UPDATES

    Included Legacy patches for users with Kontakt 5.3.1+
    We modified the way samples are streamed from memory/disk, and also increased the voice count significantly. We removed the animation to aid in performance as well
    NKS
    All Snapshots have been updated to reflect the new half pedaling features


    BUG FIX HIGHLIGHTS

    – Smoothed out velocities for better consistency (especially the lowest layers)
    – Fixed a pedaling issue caused by simultaneous note/pedal activation
    – Fixed various bad samples.
    – Fixed Reverb preset buttons from not working.
    – Fixed a graphical bug that caused label bg's to display incorrectly.
    The Multis were not functioning in certain scenarios. They are now fully operational!

    Standout Features

    The Interface at a Glance

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    Compatible with Kontakt Player 5.7+ or Kontakt Full 5.4.1+**
    This is a Kontakt Player instrument, meaning that you do not need to own the full version of Kontakt to use it! It will run as a plug-in instrument in any VST/AU/RTAS/AAX compatible host program or DAW, such as Cubase, Logic, Ableton Live, Digital Performer, Reaper, Pro-Tools, Sonar, etc. No extra purchase needed!
    System Requirements:
    7 GB of disk space for 1955 Steinway D Lite
    34 GB of disk space for each mic position of 1955 Steinway D
    Max RAM footprint is 2.25GB (though samples CAN be purged)
    Mac OS X 10.10, 10.11 or macOS 10.12 (latest update), Intel Core 2 Duo
    Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit) Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2
    An Internet connection and a graphics card that supports OpenGL 2.1 or higher are required to download and activate this product. Once installed and activated, the product can be used offline.
    4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended for large KONTAKT Instruments)
    **Kontakt Full/Player 5.7+ is required to load the instrument in the library tab of Kontakt. If you are running an older version of Kontakt, we have made a special legacy patch for Kontakt FULL 5.4.1+. If you need this patch, send us a message to request it.

    The legacy instrument is identical except that it cannot be loaded into the library tab (on the left side of Kontakt).
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    *34GB per mic position! Yep, this instrument is huge :)


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