Spitfire Audio Producer Portfolio Gwilym Simcock Felt Piano KONTAKT-SYNTHiC4TE

Why be a jack of all trades when you can be a master of one? It is
this sentiment and reason why we have searched high and low for the
most sensitive, beautiful, sonorous, and honest piano sound. Perfect
for those delicate ballads (think "Mad World" by Gary Jules) that
intimate heart rendering cue (think Newman's "American Beauty"). When
carrying out sampling experiments some years ago we discovered the
very beautiful world of an upright piano with a middle "practice felt"
or "celeste" pedal engaged. Whilst being hard to get a decent sound
out of (strange to play a piano loudly and have a muted soft sound
come out), when it rang, boy did it produce the most beautifully
unsophisticated but gentle and touching sound. This became our "soft
piano" available in return for a small donation to Unicef as part of
our Labs range. Which we have received many plaudits for. Christian
Henson, on putting this library through it's paces for some years now
went on a quest to find the perfect "celeste" pedal piano he could
find. His quest ended at Peregrines pianos on the Grays Inn Road in
London. Purveyors of fine hand made uprights and grands.

Spitfire built a room around this new piano in our HQ in Kings Cross
a perfect environment to record instruments for our "Producer
Portfolio" range - dedicated to providing producers, song writers
and composers with raw untreated instruments in a neutral space to
make their own. This piano has been performed by Mercury Award
nominee Gwilym Simcock and has been recorded Joe Rubel and the
Spitfire team with a number of rarefied microphones in a number of
perspectives via neve pre-amps and Cranesong AD converters at 96k.
From the almost vintage sound of a mono sound board mic to a
beautiful natural surround perspective of the room itself. Most
celeste pedals allow for only one dynamic layer but this piano is
more responsive than others so not only did we record several round
robins, we recorded 2 dynamic layers, release triggers and round
robin pedal damping and releasing.

We think it's the most beautiful "soft" piano out there, this celeste
pedal isn't going to come off for a while!!

PLEASE NOTE YOU WILL NEED A FULL VERSION OF KONTAKT 4 OR 5 TO RUN.