Westwood Instruments – Alt Grand 是一款充满个性的电影级钢琴采样库，采样源自一架具有近百年历史的 1930 年代 Chappell Grand 三角钢琴。这架钢琴不仅保留了复古机械结构的原始质感，其琴音中也蕴含了时间沉淀下来的厚重与温度，非常适合用于配乐、叙事性音乐、Lo-Fi、独立流行或现代创作型音乐人作品中。
Alt Grand 录制了两个版本：原声和 加装毡布（Felted），并允许你通过混合控制滑杆，灵活在清晰明亮与温润柔和之间调节音色质感。原声版本提供开放宽广的自然钢琴音色，而 Felt 版本则更加内敛温暖，具有极佳的情绪表达力。
更特别的是，Alt Grand 不止于钢琴本身。它还基于钢琴采样衍生出 23 个实验性纹理层（Textures），通过磁带处理、吉他效果器、失真、颗粒处理等方式，构建出类似合成器或氛围音源的声音颗粒。你可以将这些纹理作为底层铺垫，也可将其推到前景，打造极具表现力的有机电子音色。
录音方面，Alt Grand 使用 5 组麦克风位置和 3 个制作级混音版本，并搭配 Neumann、AKG 麦克风、Neve 1073 前级和 AMEK 控台进行高保真录制，确保声音在真实感与空间感之间达到了完美平衡。
Westwood Instruments Alt Grand KONTAKT
KONTAKT – 24,49 GB
A grand piano beyond tradition
Alt Grand is a unique relic from the 1930s. Filled with the music and memories from almost 100 years of performance.
Captured with and without felt and can be blended for a completely individual sound. With dozens of controls at your fingertips to completely alter the sound and vibe, Alt Grand offers remarkable flexibility. This is a highly detailed and playable piano, recorded through multiple microphones to reveal all of its distinctive personality.
The original recordings have been transformed into over 20 transformative textural layers that can create subtle background ambience or stand alone as atmospheric organic sounds.
An unbelievably valuable addition to your toolkit, this is a grand piano sample library that delivers years of character and extensive tone-shaping possibilities. A must-have for anyone looking for a highly versatile and adaptable piano – from cinema-filling soundtracks to songwriting and modern production.
Natural or felted (or somewhere in-between)
As has been applauded and loved in Alt Piano, we recorded Alt Grand with and without felt. Providing you with two very different and versatile characters. Felting a grand piano is meticulous work and we spent ages on getting the weight and placement of felt just right for every single octave (and in some cases each note).
The natural sound of the piano without felt is bold and open, with the felted recordings much gentler and warmer.
But best of all, you don’t have to choose. There’s a control which lets you blend between the two recordings to dial in a sound that suits you.
Transformative textures
As with most of our sample libraries, we love to create new sounds from the original instruments. Pushing the boundaries and crafting original sounds. With Alt Grand there are 23 brand new textures made from the source recordings. Tape, guitar pedals and some other unusual methods to create a range of incredible sounds.
These can be used in the background behind the piano to create an atmospheric sub-layer. Or they can be used front and centre on their own as a organic synth-like tone.
Each sound has its own unique secondary layer which can be accessed using the Texture slider. What happens is different on every texture and can be used to morph and manipulate the character of sound.
Behind the sampling
We searched for years for the right grand piano and finally found this beautiful 1930s Chappell grand piano. It was shipped all the way to our second home, Nave Studios, where we spent days sampling it. There are plenty of velocity layers, 3 round robins, pedal up and pedal down samples as well as the complete set of felted samples too. A meticulous task but totally worth it.
Recorded in Studio 1, a live room which has a warm and immediate sound. Captured through vintage Neumann and AKG microphones, a rack of Neve 1073 pre-amps and an AMEK Rembrandt desk.
You can choose between 3 production-ready mixes or create your own mix from 5 discrete microphone positions. An incredible tone that captures all the nuance of this piano.
– Character grand piano
– Recorded with and without felt
– Tape FX and dozens of controls
– 23 incredible textures
– 3 production-ready mixes
– 5 microphone positions
– “Live” player controls
– Over 100 presets
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