This download of Eighty Eight Ensemble 2 from SONiVOX is an exceptional recreation of the Steinway 9' CD 327 grand piano. Meticulously sampled and expertly voiced, Eighty Eight Ensemble 2 provides every composer, pianist, and musician the opportunity to infuse their compositions, recordings, and performances with the breathtaking realism of this truly world-class grand piano. The recording philosophy employed in creating Eighty Eight Ensemble 2 was based on a simple signal chain, the finest A/D converters, and exceptional microphone preamps. The results are some 1500 sample recordings with 16 dynamic levels captured and preserved for every key.

Reproduces Steinway's CD 327 Grand Piano    Add a Second or Third Instrument    16 Velocity Levels per Note    Over 1500 Samples and 52 Solo Presets

Meticulously sampled and expertly voiced

Over 11GB of premium content

16 velocity levels per note, over 1500 samples

52 solo piano presets

35 combination patches with layered pad sounds

16 key split combis with bass and/or solo instruments

Pedal and release element controls

Adjustable limiter

4-band EQ

Variable reverb

Fine-tune and transpose controls

7 velocity curves

MIDI-learn controller mapping

Integrated patchbrowser stores by attribute

32- and 64-bit VST and AU support

RTAS and AAX support

Even with all this painstaking attention to accuracy, Eighty Eight Ensemble 2 provides plenty of opportunities to customize the sound to match the project or your taste. The four-band EQ allows the timbre of the sound to be easily refined. An improved limiter offers enhanced dynamic control. Even the level of the sustain pedal and hammer release elements that help define the character of the piano can be individually controlled. Eighty Eight Ensemble 2 also adds a new robust reverb section. The high-frequency damping and room size parameters can add just the right ambience to your performance.

As the name implies, there is more to Eighty Eight Ensemble 2 than piano. Combination patches come in two flavors—layered combinations, or pads. These add a second instrument that sounds along with the piano. Layered sounds include strings, synth pads, and choral pads. Split Combinations, or Combis, introduce a second or third sound, played in a specified range of keys. Setting a lower split adds a bass sound, such as bass guitar, playing below the piano. Setting an upper split adds a solo accompaniment instrument playing above the piano. Solo sounds include flute, clarinet, acoustic guitar, etc. Combis can have both an upper and lower split. The zones, or range of keys where each instrument will play, can abut or overlap as you desire. The velocity response can be set to make the most of your keyboard and playing style.

In addition to the onscreen controls, Eighty Eight Ensemble features a brilliant MIDI Learn mode. Simply adjusting a parameter and then touching an external MIDI control creates a link between the two. This intuitive MIDI mapping system allows Eighty Eight Ensemble to quickly integrate with your favorite MIDI hardware controller. In fact, Eighty Eight Ensemble can save and recall your MIDI Learn presets and use them with any patch, so you only need to create them once.

Eighty Eight Ensemble features an integrated patch browser that makes it easy to store, sort, and find exactly the sound you are looking for. Patch attributes such as Class, Genre, Character, and Name allow your sounds to be stored in a musically meaningful way, as opposed to just indexed as numbers. Any and all attributes can be removed or reassigned as your sound collection grows. Best of all, Eighty Eight Ensemble comes with over 100 professionally programmed sounds to get you started. Each one can be endlessly tweaked and modified to rapidly build your customized Eighty Eight Ensemble sound collection.

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