SAMPLED IN SHIMMERING DETAIL
"Stunningly gorgeous. Simply the greatest sampled piano I’ve ever heard."
- Full 30 Keys
- 5 Velocity Layers
- 6 Microphones
- 2 Microphone Positions
- Sustain Pedal
- Soft Pedal
- Long Notes
- Short notes
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Blüthner Style 6 – LITE
Grand Piano Sample Library
Piano Sample Library.
FULL 13GB VERSION AVAILABLE HERE!
4.3GB of samples
Two microphone locations
Five velocity layers
Soft pedal
Kontakt 6 upwards
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FULL KONTAKT 6.7+ REQUIRED. DOES NOT WORK WITH KONTAKT PLAYER
- Pulse Downloader Required - Free
- Watermarked for Piracy Tracking
- Uncompressed 24|48 Samples
Blüthner Style 6 – LITE
Grand Piano Sample Library
Piano Sample Library.
FULL 13GB VERSION AVAILABLE HERE!
4.3GB of samples
Two microphone locations
Five velocity layers
Soft pedal
Kontakt 6 upwards
$0
FULL KONTAKT 6.7+ REQUIRED. DOES NOT WORK WITH KONTAKT PLAYER
- Pulse Downloader Required - Free
- Watermarked for Piracy Tracking
- Uncompressed 24|48 Samples
BEST PIANO OF 2021
We are so proud to have won Pianobook’s best piano of 2021
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What an emotional story, what a really amazing sample instrument.
One of the best!
It's Not Just Another Piano
Wow, What a Piano!
I Cried When I First Played This Piano
Simply Beautiful!
A piano made for those reflective moments.
Stunningly gorgeous. Simply the greatest sampled piano I’ve ever heard.
THE STORY
BLÜTHNER STYLE 6 #90513
The old family piano. It comes to me now after the passing of my mother on March 16th 2020. She was diagnosed with ASL 6 months earlier. On that night she is in her bed, unable to speak, struggling for air. A ventilator, pressing oxygen to her failing lungs, hisses and puffs. Its soft timely heaving, devastatingly peaceful. The Piano is right next to her and I want to play something for her but somehow I just can’t.
Later I wish I had given myself to that.
This 1913 piano is also showing its age. It has a cracked frame but still holds it’s tuning. In the months after her passing the idea of sampling this piano begins to obsess in me. I want to remember its sound long after it is gone. It is only later that I realise, this is my catharsis.
I have samples every note in five velocity layers, pedal up and pedal down and all of it again with the soft pedal engaged. There are two mic positions utilising three mics each.
Outside (far left on the mic dial) was recorded with two PDA 4001’s for wide stereo and an SE3300 for mono fill placed just above the keyboard almost inside the hammers with the keyboard lid removed. This is an attempt to try capture the sound of the piano as I remember it.
Inside (far right on the mic dial) was receded with two AKG C414’s in XY with a The TUL F47 is modelled on the Neumann U47 FET built by Tully McCullagh in Cape Town as mono fill. The inside mics have a much closer stereo field but a beautiful clear attack which compliments the outside array.
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A collection of sounds
* Commissioned for PAPYRUS which exists to reduce the number of young people who take their own lives, by shattering the stigma surrounding suicide and equipping young people and their communities with the skills to recognise and respond to emotional distress. We believe that no young person should have to struggle alone with thoughts of suicide.
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GUI
The Blüthner Style 6 GUI is simply elegant
Three main knobs control key and pedal noise, mic position and dynamics respectively.
The reverb and delay master knobs control the amount of reverb and delay in your mix.
The Soft Pedal button switches between Soft Pedal on or off. The Soft pedal or Una Corda (One string) gives a muted felt tone to the notes and is hauntingly quiet.
SAMPLES
Long notes - Inside mic position - 30
– Sustain Pedal Up – Full Note Resonance
– Sustain Pedal Down – Full Note Resonance
– Soft Pedal – Sustain Pedal Up – Full Note Resonance
– Soft Pedal – Sustain Pedal Down – Full Note Resonance
Long notes - Outside mic position - 30
– Sustain Pedal Up – Full Note Resonance
– Sustain Pedal Down – Full Note Resonance
– Soft Pedal – Sustain Pedal Up – Full Note Resonance
– Soft Pedal – Sustain Pedal Down – Full Note Resonance
Short Notes – Inside Mic Position – 30
– Pedal Up
– Pedal Down
– Soft Pedal – Sustain Pedal Up
– Soft Pedal – Sustain Pedal Down
Short Notes – Outside Mic Position – 30
– Pedal Up
– Pedal Down
– Soft Pedal – Sustain Pedal Up
– Soft Pedal – Sustain Pedal Down
Noise – Inside Mic Position
– Keys Press – 30
– Pedal Press
Noise – Outside Mic Position
– Keys Press – 30
– Pedal Press
TECHNICAL SPECS
1777 Samples
4.46 GB Uncompressed WAV
4.35 GB Download
MacOS
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11 or 12 (latest update) Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12 (latest update)
Kontakt 6.7 or upwards
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PC
Windows 10 or 11 (latest Service Pack), Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU, 2 GB RAM Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher
FAQ
Kontakt 6.7 or upwards.
Yes you can. Once you have purchased this, you can use it freely.
Unfortunately we don’t offer refunds on any software based release. Please contact us if you have any problems though.
Your choice.
Minimum 8GB. The Blüthner Style 6 will load up about 2.75GB into RAM so that can feel a little heavy. Kontakt allows you to purge the samples and will then only load the samples you are playing into RAM as you play them. This is not a problem with SSD drives but with spindle HD drives you will have to update the sample pool as you go.