Upright Design, Grand Sound
Key Features
- Modern classic
- Clear and uninhibited sound
- Wide dynamic range, rich tone with a powerful bass
- Stellar clarity in each note
- Versatility in sound & timbre with 8 microphone positions
- Recorded at Stage B of Synchron Stage Vienna
- Advanced Release Sample Technology
- Pre-configured Main Presets: Concert, Intimate, Player, Pop, Ambience, Vintage
The Bösendorfer Grand Upright 130 incorporates the experience of almost two centuries of grand piano making. Although physically an upright piano, the instrument surprises with subtle nuances and a powerful bass, and yet with a pure and pristine piano sound, without further tonal colors that are usually added by the large body of a concert grand.
Sampling Precision
To capture the Bösendorfer Grand Upright 130 with all its subtleties, our engineers developed a highly precise motion-control system based on a solenoid that controls a noise-free “robot finger”. The micro-controller moves the finger with super-human precision, providing flexible curvatures for down-strokes and release movements, the latter corresponding with the preceding note length and various release speeds.
8 Microphone Positions
In order to capture this marvelous instrument in Stage B of Synchron Stage Vienna, our recording engineers used multiple high-end microphone arrays, affording an abundance of options for creating your individual sound.
Microphones
| Standard Library | Full Library | |
| 1. Close 1 – Condenser (Schoeps 2 MK4 ORTF) | • | • |
| 2. Close 2 – Ribbon (Royer SF24 Blumlein) | • | |
| 3. Close 3 – Condenser Large Diaphragm (Neumann 2 TLM 170 Cardioids) | • | |
| 4. Mid 1 (Sennheiser MKH 40 ORTF behind the piano) | • | |
| 5. Mid 2 (Schoeps KFM6 over the piano) | • | • |
| 6. Main/Room Mic – Decca Tree Stereo (Neumann KM 133) | • | • |
| 7. Main/Room Mic – Decca Tree Mono (Neumann KM 133) | • | • |
| 8. Main Surround – Stereo (Neumann KM 184) | • |
Even if you’re not using a surround setup, you get more ambience variations and spatial depth out of the Full Library by adding the room and surround microphones’ signals to your stereo mix.
In addition to the multitude of options from mixing various microphone signals, the Bösendorfer Upright comes with the free Vienna Synchron Pianos software that offers multiple options for shaping your sound and your playing experience. Hosting a high-performance playback engine, the software provides a full-blown mixer with a broad range of effects such as EQ, compressor, saturator, algorithmic reverb, delay, chorus, flanger, rotary, and many more. You may also adjust the volume of body resonances, sympathetic strings and pedal noises right in the main Play window. In the Edit window you can even tweak EQ, volume, tuning, dynamic range, etc. for each individual key!
The Synchron Bösendorfer Upright supports Native Instruments’ NKS format and is compatible with Komplete Kontrol keyboards and Maschine. Use the Light Guide to quickly identify key switches and play ranges of your instruments, browse and preview sounds, and quickly adapt them using pre-configured control knobs. Download the NKS installers from MyVSL.
| Standard Library | Full Library | |
|---|---|---|
| Sample Amount | 59,732 | 119,464 |
| Download File Size | 13.8 GB | 28.7 GB |
| Installed File Size | 48.6 GB | 99.4 GB |
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