Play baritone rhythm-guitar parts like never before

Chocolate Audio teamed up with the extremely talented Gianluca Ferro using his Custom ESP 8-String Baritone Guitar to record a massive amount of samples dedicated to power rhythm guitar. This Baritone Guitar was sampled through two boutique guitar rigs in parallel (all with a perfect phase relationship) and a separate clean D.I. signal. So there is some Bi-Amping to add some additional juice if needed to your tracks.

All channels can be mixed inside Kontakt or fed separately to your DAW for external mangling (just use on of the pre-made multis in a multi-output version of Kontakt).

Additionally, you can activate either of two independent parts to emulate Double-Tracking. To augment this effect you can delay in tens of milliseconds each single part separately (0.0 to 40.0 ms), detune (-10/+10 cents) or use the infamous Haas Effect very much used in some production styles.

The Haas Effect is obtained by hard panning a track to the left and copying it to the right, but delaying it usually within 10 to 40 milliseconds to obtain a wide sound from a single track.

On the Mixer page, once Haas is activated, you can also reverse the stereo image for one or more channels at the same time.

O.D.D Gran Piano is made up of 3 Kontakt NKI Instrument files. :

Oneiric Piano

An open, wide piano sound, with lots of roomy combinations recorded with the following mikes and placements:

• 2 x AKG C414B-TLII widely spaced located at the musician's position at the piano
• A Wunder Audio CM7 FET on the opposite side of the piano, capturing a darker and more intimate tone
• 2 x vintage AKG C460-CK1 as room mics, placed far away and very low
• 2 x vintage AKG C451E-CK22 omni microphones, capturing the height of the room

Dark Piano

Recorded with a ribbon mic based combination, resulting in a sound full of personality and some precious darkness with an edge:

• 2 x AKG C414B-TLII widely spaced located at the musician's position at the piano
• 2 x AEA N22 matched pair in AB configuration on the listener side
• 2 x Earthworks SR77 matched pair on the end tail of the piano
• A single vintage Beyerdynamic M88N(C) capturing the bassy tone of the holes
• 2 x AEA N8 matched pair in Blumlein configuration placed high and 2.5 meters away on the listener side

Dreamy Piano

Based on dynamic mics recording underneath the piano creating an edgy and wide sound palette:

• 2 x vintage, cheap but amazingly good AKG D190E on the player side in a wide AB pattern
• A single AKG C414B-ULS placed on the floor underneath the piano body
• 2 x Crown PZM30D placed between the legs and the harmonic board, one next to the low strings, the other next to the higher registers
• A single vintage dynamic omni Sennheiser MD211 on the ground as room mic

Features :

• 20.56 GB (lossless compressed) library size, 20496 samples
• 3 NKI Instrument Files, each representing a different take on the same piano, the result of different odd mic techniques being put to good use
• 71 main Presets
• Compressor & Tape Emulation section
• Reverb section, so critical for acoustic pianos in particular, features an 100% in-house developed collection of 101 carefully selected high quality Impulse Responses
• MIDI key-based level trimming allows you to further customize the dynamic response of the piano
• 3 sets of 4 microphones used on each piano sampled
• Oneiric Piano: AKG C414B-TLII, Wunder Audio CM7 FET, AKG C460-CK1, AKG C451E-CK22
• Dark Piano: AEA N22, Earthworks SR77, Beyerdynamic M88N(C), AEA N8
• Dreamy Piano: AKG D190E, AKG C414B-ULS, Crown PZM30D, Sennheiser MD211
• 11 sustaining dynamic layers, chromatically sampled
• 8 release trails layers, chromatically sampled
• independently controllable sustain-pedal resonances
• Key-release noise for added authenticity
• Sustain-pedal down and up noise layers
• Sampled with Millennia, Neve, Heritage Audio, CAPI, SSL and Focusrite preamps through an SSL Duality 48 analog mixing console
• All of the details of the piano recreated through the use of our custom advanced scripting
• 24 bit / 44.1 KHz sampling
• Easy-to-use mixer for extreme sound-mangling

System Requirements :

• An AAX, VST3, RTAS, Audio Unit host application
• 4 GB Ram (more if in need of loading more sample sets)
• Works as standalone, AAX, RTAS, AU and VST for Mac and PC
• Core2Duo or equivalent Mac or PC
• Kontakt Retail Version: v. 5.5.2 or newer
• MIDI Keyboard

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