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Abbey Road Studios CFX Concert Grand
€197.52 (incl.vat €239.00)
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CFXCG-1Abbey Road Studios CFX Concert Grand
€197.52 (incl.vat €239.00)
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CFX Concert Grand
Yamaha CFX Concert Grand Piano recorded at Abbey Road Studios
Recorded in Abbey Road Studio One by award-winning engineers using the world´s finest microphones and equipment, the nine foot Yamaha CFX Concert Grand is one of the newest pianos at Abbey Road Studios and is characterised by a wide palette of tonal colors and the ability to create the most subtle expressive nuances.
This is the only virtual instrument featuring the Yamaha CFX grand piano and the only virtual piano recorded in Abbey Road Studio One.
Garritan Abbey Road CFX Concert Grand provides users with three discrete microphone perspectives:
Classic – captures the natural tonal character, clarity and nuance of the CFX
Contemporary – produces a bright and brilliant sound with definitive attack from the hammers
Player – delivers the unique experience of playing from the piano bench in Studio One.
More information on these perspectives and the microphones used to capture them can be found below.
The CFX Concert Grand includes the powerful ARIA player, and is designed to be a perfect addition to music notation based programs, like Finale, as well as to all sequencers and digital audio workstations.
This product ships on a USB flash drive in a special edition box complete with a full-colour booklet about the piano and the recording processes and equipment used.
There are 2 installation configurations to choose from (both versions on the same flash drive):
Full: all three perspectives at their “full-fat size”.
Compact: again, all three perspectives, but with a “lighter” design for smaller drives (laptop SSDs) and more compact systems.
The Full version will take approx 67GB of drive space and the Compact version will take around 33GB.
TAKING A CLOSER LOOK…
The Studio
Abbey Road Studios´ Studio One is one of the largest and most beautiful sounding orchestral studios in the world. The space can easily accommodate a 110 piece orchestra and 100 piece choir simultaneously. Studio One´s acoustics are as famous as its location, offering a supremely warm and clear sound with a reverb time of 2.3 seconds. This makes it perfect for numerous types of recording, from solo piano to large orchestras.
The Piano
The Yamaha CFX Concert Grand Piano marks a significant milestone in Yamaha´s celebrated 108-year history as an acclaimed world-class piano maker. In 1991, Yamaha began its most ambitious piano project ever: to create a new generation of grand piano for concert, conservatoire and studio performance.
The result was the CFX Concert Grand Piano, a revolutionary new instument that embodies the concept of beauty and power. The rich palette of tonal colours and musical voices the piano can produce characterises its beauty. The power comes from the CFX´s unprecedented tonal proection. The development and evaluation phase of this remarkable instrument took almost 20 years! During this time, a 40-strong team of the world´s most talented piano designers, technicians, craftsmen and, of course, pianosts deconstructed the concert grand and began rebuilding it from the ground up. Every aspect of traditional piano design was questioned, evaluated, improved and relentlessly tested. Once the design was nearing completion, multiple prototypes endured thousands of hours of secret testing at concert halls across the globe.
Each CFX is entirely hand-built by a small team comprising some of the world´s most experienced and skilled craftsmen. All materials are emticulously selected and refind to ensure unprecedented music performance in the most demanding of situations. It offers outstanding expressiveness for a truly musical performance. With enough tonal presence to be heard over the sound of a full symphony orchestra in the largest of concert hall, the CFX is truly one of the greatest pianos ever created.
Engineering
The sound of the Garritan Abbey Road CFX piano was captured by a team of highly experienced Abbey Road recording engineers, each contributing decades of knowledge in recording pianos for a variety of applications.
Microphone set-ups, also referred to as pespectives, have a huge effect on the overall sound of the recorded instrument. Each set of perspectives speak specifically to various musical settings.
The set-ups are a hybrid of classic techniques handed down from generation to generation of balance engineers within Abbey Road Studios since the 1930s, mixed with more contemporary and experiential arrays that perfectly complement each other. These set-ups have been and are continually used by the finest recording artists in the world and have been presented here for use as a sampled instrument for the first time ever.
Microphone Perspectives
To expand your creative possibilities, Abbey Road Studios´ engineers created three discrete microhone perspectives, Classic Contemporary, and Player.
Classic
The classic perspecive most faithfully captures the natural tonal character, clarity and nuance of the instrument
Close – 2 x Neumann M49 and 2 x Neumann KM184 Microphones: As every piano, recording venue, repertoise and pianist are different, the M49 and KM184 are used to capture a close detailed sound, which is especially good for chamber music.
Mid Field/Wide – 2 x DPA 4006 Microphones: The DPA 4006s placed at each end of the piano cre ate a wider and more spacious sound picture.
Main – 2 x Neumann TLM50 Microphones: The Neumann TLM50 are placed 2m away from the instrument and at 2.6m in height. This captures the overall complex frequency response and dynamic range of a grand piano.
Contemporary
The Contemporary perspective creates a piano sound that is bright and hard with lots of attack from the hammers, but also maintains the piano´s warmth with intimate ambience.
Close – AKG C12 & D19 Microphones: The AKG C12 is a bright sounding valve microphone with bite and some nice valve warmth. The mono D19 placed in the centre over the hammers was run via a classic REDD.47 valve microphone pre-amp, adding central focus and ´poke´ to the clse sound of this set up.
Ambience – Schoeps MK 2H Microphones: For the Ambience microphones SChoeps MK 2H are used in a close position They are able to bring the sound of the room to the mix, without losing too much of the definiteion of the piano´s initial attack.
Player
The Player perspective offers the experience of playing the CFX, from the piano bench, in Studio One, particularly when reproduced over high quality headphones.
Close – 2 x Neumann KM84 Microphones: This is a straight forward stereo pair placed closely and directly over the hammers. It provides an immediate sound of the piano with little coloration from the room.
Player – Neumann KU100 Dummy Head: The Binaural KU100 Dummy Head was placed directly behind the musican´s heads. This provides an intimacy to the instrument mixed with the unmistakable sense of playing the instrument in the acoustics of Studio One.
Presets
Garritan has worked closely with Abbey Road Studios to develop presets that are both functionally useful and inspiring to play. Research included artists and genres as well as notable recordings, cinematic settings and live performance examples to make the CFX as flexible and versatile a musical instrument as possible.
Classic
Ambi Normal – Classic perspective with a deep ambiance end expressive nuance. The high EQ is boosted on the ambient mic pair to accentuate the reflection of the natural and added reverb.
Dark Cinema – The preset is designed to bring out the lower velocities and EQ´d to emphasise a darker tonal pallet. This has been pared with “Retro Space” convolution preset to add a moody and ethereal colour to the piano.
Dry Clean – Release delay and Release volume are set to 0 and highs are booested on the 4006/TLM 50 mic pair to give the piano a dry, definitive character.
Granville – If the CFX was in a pub, it might sound a bit like this. Close and ambient mic pairs have been balanced and EQ´d to reflect a setting that might involve soft upholstery, thick curtains and a game of darts.
KW-Modeled after the sound of jazz pianist Kenny Werner. The lid is set to “half-stick” with a slight boost to the highs and some sculpting of the mids to shape a warm yet articulate sound.
Contemporary
Brighton Rock – Set up to bright and taught, this preset has a light touch and is EQ´d to cut through the mix.
Chicken Wire – An alternate tuning, a slightly lighter touch and a closed lid give the piano a raw country falvour.
Russell´s Triffid – Inspired by pianist Russell Ferrante of Yellowjackets fame. The lid is set to “open”, the highs are boosted and a touch of saturation is added to give the piano a lively, agile feel.
Spike – Release Decay and Release Volume are set to 0, Release Crossgrade is set to 2.5 and EQs are sculpted to give the piano a punchy, aggressive character.
Player
Moreme – Release Decay and Release Volume are set to 0, Relase Crossfade is set to 2 and EQs are sculpted to give the piano a tight lively flavour.
Edward´s Reflection – Only the KU100 is engaged to capture the most natural ambience of Studio One from the bench of the CFX.
Village Grinder – An emphasis on the KM84 over the KU100 with a :half-stick” combined with some saturation and convolution reverb give this preset the fflavour of a working piano in a famous jazz club.
Wendyhouse -Feturing a Scala tuning from composer Wendy Calos, this preset has an eerie quality.
Woolly Mammoth – This preset has been EQ´d and given a velocity curve to ephaasise the soft, warm sound.
Merk
Garritan
Garritan
Garritan is een award-winnende producent van hoogwaardige en innovatieve SoundWare. Garritan heeft een revolutie in de software-instrument wereld teweeg gebracht en heeft vele onderscheidingen gewonnen van celebrity muzikanten en de schrijvende muziek pers. De Garritan bibliotheken worden gebruikt in een breed scala van toepassingen: van tv-shows en films tot videogames, live concerten en ballet. Scholen en universiteiten over de hele wereld hebben gekozen voor Garritan libraries voor gebruik met hun muziek leerplannen
Garritan is ook een pionier in de integratie van samples met populaire notatie programma's, zoals Finale en Sibelius. De Garritan Libraries zijn bekend over de hele wereld voor hun kwaliteit en waordt gezien als onmisbaar in het onderwijs net als in film, televisie en muziek producties en live optredens.
Extra Informatie
Windows®
Microsoft Windows 7 or later
Audio interface compatible with ASIO
Macintosh®
Mac OS X 10.7 or later
Both
Multi-core processor required
4 GB RAM minimum required. 8 GB RAM or greater recomended.
122 GB of free hard drive space is required for “Full” installation; 24.5 GB is required for “Compact” installation.
A dedicated hard drive with fast interface (SATA, USB 3.0, Firewire 800, Thunderbolt) is recommended. A solid-state drive (SSD) is preferred.
Internet connection for updates and online registration
USB port required for boxed version installation
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