Gaveau Piano

The A-Pian Grand piano is and old French Gaveau piano. Gaveau was a French piano manufacturer. The company was established in 1847 in Paris and used to be one of the three largest piano makers in France (after Érard and Pleyel).

Built in 1960, this particular piano is often referred as a "crapaud" (or "Petite Grand" in English). It's a little smaller than a "quart de queue" (baby grand).

This A-Pian piano has a particular sound: it is very bright and full of inharmonicity in the bass due to the short lengths of the strings.

This library was Acoustic Samples first attempt in finding a new and exciting way of sampling a piano.

Product Features:

• 820Mb, 232 samples
• 3 Velocity layers for the sustain and 3 Velocities for the release
• Pedal down resonance and true pedal action
• Key noises samples
• Sustain pedal noises (up and down), triggered automatically
• Advanced UVI scripting

System Requirements

A-Pian comes with its own sample player, the UVI Workstation 3 (requires v3.0.0 or later). Free with every library that you buy, you don't need to buy an expensive sampler to use the product. It works on Mac (10.9 or later) and PC (Windows 8 or higher), in standalone or as a plug-in (VST / AU / AAX ) and in 64 bits only.

Windows

• Windows 8 or higher
• Core duo or faster
• 2 GB of RAM
• 64 bit Support
• iLok
• Hard Drive: when using Streaming, faster drive will allow more voices to play, SSDs are the best choice (Solid State Drives).

Mac

• MAC OS X 10.9 or higher
• MacIntel processors
• 2 GB RAM
• 64 bit Support
• iLok
• Hard Drive: when using Streaming, faster drive will allow more voices to play