Grand Passion
Key Features
- Full 8 octaves in tonal range – 97 keys (with bass extension)
- Warm, orchestral sound, rich in depth and tone color
- Powerful bass
- Six pre-configured Main Presets: Concert, Intimate, Player, Pop, Ambience, Mighty
- Proprietary Vienna Synchron Pianos engine with adjustable sympathetic resonances, pedal noise, key noise and so much more
- Per-note EQ, volume, dynamic range and tuning
- Advanced Release Sample Technology
- Recorded at Stage A of Synchron Stage Vienna
The Bösendorfer Concert Grand 290 Imperial represents the apex of the famed Austrian piano manufacturer’s precious heritage. Its nine additional sub-bass notes extend the instrument’s key range downward to the low C – for a total range of eight octaves. The extra bass strings create additional harmonic resonance with every key you strike, providing warmth, richness and depth across the entire instrument. The massive soundboard projects an unusually broad frequency range, evoking a sonorous, orchestral timbre.
What’s more, our proprietary Release Sample Technology was even further refined, allowing the Synchron Player to automatically match hundreds of individual and finely stepped release samples per key to your played notes in real-time. The result is a hyper-realistic playing feel and 100% timbral authenticity.
The Vienna Synchron Pianos software player offers multiple options for shaping your sound and the playing experience. Hosting a high-performance playback engine, the software provides a musician-friendly user interface that allows for quick and easy timbral control. Create your sound intuitively by filtering particular key ranges or even single keys, adjust the body resonance of the instrument or add just a touch of algorithmic reverb to refine the overall sound.
With over 4,000 samples per key and almost 20,000 samples per microphone position, the Bösendorfer Imperial boasts breathtaking authenticity. In order to capture this marvelous instrument in one of the best acoustic environments on the planet, our recording engineers used multiple high-end microphone arrays, affording an abundance of options for creating your individual sound.
Microphone Setup
Microphone Positions
| Standard Library | Full Library | |
| 1. Room Mic (Mix) | • | • |
| 2. Condenser – Close 1 (Sennheiser MKH 8040) | • | • |
| 3. Ribbon – Close 2 (Royer SF-24) | • | |
| 4. Tube – Close 3 (Neumann M149) | • | |
| 5. Mid 1 (Sennheiser MKH 800) | • | • |
| 6. Mid 2 (Sennheiser MKH 8040) | • | |
| 7. Main/Room Mic – Decca Tree Stereo (L/R) | • | • |
| 8. Main/Room Mic – Decca Tree Mono (Center) | • | • |
| 9. Main Surround – Stereo (L/R) | • | |
| 10. High Stereo (3D) – Stereo (L/R) | • | |
| 11. High Surround (3D) – Stereo (L/R) | • |
| Standard Library | Full Library | |
|---|---|---|
| Sample Amount | 108,025 | 237,655 |
| Download File Size | 38.6 GB | 91.5 GB |
| Installed File Size | 128.8 GB | 295.3 GB |
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