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KAWAI-EX PRO

KAWAI-EX PRO
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Kawai-EX PRO, concert grand piano
 

The Kawai-EX Pro sample Library is a fabulous, powerful and bright 9-foot (276cm) KAWAI EX concert grand piano that used to be in the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
We worked closely with Lance Herring on this library (this is our second attempt after the AcademicGrand) and decided to give our project a new dimension, we carefully recorded this extraordinary instrument with 3 microphone pairs and state of the art Gear to try and recreate how powerful and precise this instrument can be.

Default interface Mixing settings
Default interface
This is the default interface of the plugin. We adjusted all of the parameters the best possible way. If you want to adjust something, simply click on settings.
Mixing settings
The Mixing settings give you complete control over the volume and pan of each microphone position, the Kawai has Three microphone positions: close (inside of the piano), player (above the head of the pianist) and rim (at the position of the singer).
General settings Midi settings
General settings
In this panel, you can change most of the aspects of the library to make it sound just like you want.
You can adjust:
  • The release Volume: the sound produced when you release a key if a note was going on.
  • The Key Noises: the sound produced when you release a key and no corresponding sustain was played.
  • The Pedal Noise: the sound produced when you press or release the pedal, it adds a lot to the realism.
  • The Tone: a simple way to make the piano sound brighter or darker.
  • The sostenuto CC, also called the middle pedal. You can sustain selected notes, while other notes remain unaffected.
  • The polyphony. If you lower the buffer or simply want to be light on CPU, then increase or lower this value.
  • The Reverb. We use a convolution reverb and you can adjust the dry and wet parts separately.
Midi settings
In the midi panel, you have access to all of the midi controls to help you adjust the library to your controller or playing style:
  • The MIDI remapper allows you to assign any input velocity to any output velocity.
  • The MIDI curve controls the midi remapper and will give it a concave or convex shape thus changing a "MIDI sensitivity".
  • The Velocity Threshold is simply the minimum velocity that you will have to play to hear the piano, it is present on a real piano.
  • The Dynamics curve changes the volume curve of the library.
  • The Sensitivity will set the minimum volume for velocity 1 and give you access to all the dynamics that you want.

 

Sample player
KAWAI-EX PRO now comes with its own sample player, the UVI Workstation 2 (requires v2.0.10 or later).
We provide it for free with every library that you buy, you don't need to buy an expensive sampler to use our products. It works on Mac and PC, in standalone or as a plugin (VST / AU / RTAS / MAS) and in 32 and 64 bits. You can find more info about it here.
As it is based on the same engine (UVI engine XT), you can also use our products in MOTU MachFive 3 (requires v3.1.3 or later).
Technical description
10,9Gb, 4932 samples.
3 microphone positions that you can mix from the interface.
5 Velocity layers for the sustain (5 on pedal up and 5 on pedal down).
3 sets of 5 Velocities for the release, one for different sustain lenght (staccato).
Pedal down resonance.
Key noises samples.
Sustain pedal noises (up and down), triggered automatically.
Advanced UVI scripting giving you access to a simple yet powerfull interface and advanced features.

 

iLok required


All of our libraries are protected with iLok, an iLok usb key is required, as well as an iLok account.

You can buy one anywhere (both V1 and V2 are working with our products).
Registration

Once your order is complete, you will be provided with a serial number.

You will then be able to register it to your iLok account from our website on this page (you need to be logged in to access this page). The whole process is described in the FAQ (instructions + screencast).

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almost perfect ... just a little thing on a real piano, when you lift the pedal and take it again before the end of the release, the sound continues as normal but here it stop completely. Could you make an update ? I do not know if what I say is understandable ... sorry I'm French. Otherwise congratulations and thank you for the management of microphones.
 
Yes, i understand what you ask for, this effect is called repedaling. We will see about an update, but this behavior is pretty complicated to implement and not at all included in kontakt default features (so that means scripting). There is only one sampler that does this out of the box: Gigasampler... Don't hold your breath though as we have a lot going on right now.
GREAT
this's good!
mmm nice
muito bomm!!
Parece ser bem legal...
Dado Simic
Excellent!
Wohoo.. bright and bold piano! want thiss....
 
ini juga ora ono jamu....kudu beli neh
 
suweeee ora jamuuu hahaha
 
lol
 
km punya piano apa aja zef? punya list vst?
Wonderful Plug-in!
really out of this world

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