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 reffered 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 lenght 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.
Default interface This is the default interface of the plugin. We adjusted all of the parameters the best possible way. If you want to adjust something, simply click on settings.
Mixing settings On the A-Pian, the Mixing settings are only a control over the volume and pan of the library.
General settings In this panel, you can change most of the aspects of the library to make it sound just like you want.
Midi settings In the midi panel, you have access to all of the midi controls to help you adjust the library to your controller or playing style.
Technical Specifications
- 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
PC
- A-PIAN comes with its own sample player, the UVI Workstation 3 (requires v3.0.0 or later).
- We provide it for free with every library that you buy, you don't need to buy an expensive sampler to use our products. It works on Mac (10.9 or later) and PC (windows 8 or later), in standalone or as a plugin (VST / AU / AAX ) and in 64 bits only.
Mac
- A-PIAN comes with its own sample player, the UVI Workstation 3 (requires v3.0.0 or later).
- We provide it for free with every library that you buy, you don't need to buy an expensive sampler to use our products. It works on Mac (10.9 or later) and PC (windows 8 or later), in standalone or as a plugin (VST / AU / AAX ) and in 64 bits only.
