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1 9 2 8 L E G A C Y P I A N O

PRODUCED BY TROELS FOLMANN



INTRODUCTION

Welcome to 8DIO Legacy Piano series – a collection of deep-sampled world-class pianos.Legacy Piano series marks the next evolution in piano sampling and first virtual piano

series to ever have round robin (repetition samples) on both sustains and staccato, whichmeans you get a more varied, fluent and expressive piano.

We are launching our Legacy series with the release of one of the most precious andsought after pianos in the history of pianos, namely a specific series of ivory coveredSteinway grand that were produced in Germany in 1928. This particular series and era isknown to be one of the best and the building quality still stands unmatched – even thestrings are still original from 1928. It is the perfect piano for soundtrack composers,songwriters and people looking for an advanced emotional and resonant piano.

Legacy 1928 Grand Piano was recorded with two sets of microphones (close/internal) and(ambient/player), so users can adjust the sound to their liking ranging from recordingsinside the piano to a natural player perspective. We also added a variety of controls (ex.pedal volume, release volume, noise reduction, EQ etc) and a visual velocity editor, so youcan fully sculpt the piano to your liking. The piano also includes a great selection ofconvolution reverbs and convolution effects – and a bonus selection of morphing patches(ex. Hang Drum, Pipe Harps, Bells, Guitar) that can morphed directly with the piano.

♥ Troels Folmann



INSTALLATIONTHE INSTALLATION OF 1928 LEGACY PIANO REQUIRES TWO STEPS:

1. Installation of core library. The installation of the core library happens automatically using ourdownload utility. The only thing you have to do type in the download code, which is in the the

receipt of purchase mail you received from us and download 1928 legacy piano. The

download tool automatically downloads and uncompresses the files for you. The only thing

you have to do is to select the directory you want to install 1928 LEGACY PIANO in.

2. Installation of the advanced 1928 LEGACY PIANO UI (User Interface) 1928 LEGACY PIANO

requires an additional installation, since the library is exploring advanced features in Kontakt.

Please follow the guidelines listed below.

ALL USERS OF 1928 LEGACY PIANO MUST INSTALL THE UI IN ORDER FOR THE LIBRARY TO WORK:

1928 LEGACY PIANO has an advanced user interface that must be installed before the library is

loaded into Kontakt for the first time. Because this is a standard open-format Kontakt Instrument,

the UI images and template files must be placed in Kontakt’s default user pictures folder so that

Kontakt can find and load them automatically.

We’ve provided a simple self-installer program to make the process easier. PC users should click

on the file called “1928 LEGACY PIANO PC Installer.exe”. Mac Users should unzip “1928 LEGACY

PIANO MAC Installer.zip” and then run the app called “1928 LEGACY PIANO Mac Installer”. Asmall program window will open, asking you to select your preferred language and follow the

instructions. From, there, continue to the screen that asks you to choose your Kontakt 4 User

Picture Folder. For most users, the default path that the app pre-selects for you is the correct

location. You can simply press the Next button and continue until the app has finished. This

library should now be installed and ready to use. Some users with multiple user documents

folders or a customized documents folder location may need to click the browse button and

navigate to the proper user documents folder location or/or may need to install the UI images in

multiple locations to insure that Kontakt can display the UI properly.

TROUBLESHOOTING:

If you load the library and see a series of randomly overlapping grey boxes and sliders, that

means the UI images aren’t installed in the right place. This can be corrected by closing Kontakt

and running the UI installer app again, in some cases multiple times, until you’ve installed the UI

images in every instance of the folder path “../Documents/Native Instruments/Kontakt 4/

pictures/” that you can locate on your computer. The image and template files are tiny and

passive, so you don’t need worry about wasting drive space or cluttering your system.



CORE ARTICULATIONS

1928 LEGACY PIANO contains a variety of patches customized for your need and

system specs. We have memory-conservative versions that are no more then 200MB

and large versions taking 2-3GB of RAM. The main difference is how deeply theprograms are sampled. The larger versions contains 1-2 fully loaded microphone

position and our unique round robin (aka repetition samples). The round robin is x 6repetitions pr. velocity layer of staccato short notes and x 3 repetitions pr. velocitylayer for the sustained samples.

The ideal user configuration is our high-memory patch, which includes all the samplesin the library, including both microphone positions and fully loaded round robin. Wehighly recommend a 64-bit +8GB RAM for using this patch, since its more resource

intensive then the rest. Legacy is programmed very specifically to conserve systemresources, so evne with 400-500 voices playing you should be flying on a decentQuad-Core system.



ARTICULATIONS

1928 LEGACY PIANO is incredibly easyto use, yet incredibly flexible. You cancontrol a massive subset of elementsdirectly from your keyboard,including tonal/pitch control, sampletrigger control and all the effects thatare associated to the samples. Allavailable right on your keyboard.

GUITAR: The pitch-bender on yourkeyboard controls the bit-resolution ofthe sample. The more you turn it - themore grainy and bit-crashed your

sound will become. This is an effectivetool for sculpting some edge into yoursound.

HANG DRUM: The beloved modwheelcontrols a low-pass filter. The defaultis set to no filter, however the secondyou start adjusting your modwheelyou will note the sound becomes softerand more muffled based on the level of filter. This allows you to sculpt the sample to the given“softness” level of your composition and makes the sample fit better in the mix. Works super well

with the bit-resolution on the pitchbender btw.

METAL BOWL: The low keyranges on your keyboard controls type of guitar you are using fromelectric clean, electric distorted to acoustic. You will note that all keys (C-B) contains basic chords,so you can freely combine the different guitars, since they are playing the same rhythm. You canadjust the volume level of each guitar from the frontpage. Each guitar contains the 12 mostfundamental chords used in song writing today. You can generate an end-chord if you press hardon the keyboard. Which allows you to create a more elegant ending to each of your chords.

PIPEHARP: The upper mid-keys (C4-D4#) allows you to control the four signature rhythms. Allchords were played in the four most common rhythms used in song writing.

BELL: The high keyranges on your keyboard provides you real-time control of all the effects,including LOFI, Rotator, Delay, Convolution Reverb (with +40 custom convolutions), Reverb,

PROPANIUM: The upper mid-keys (C4-D4#) allows you to control the four signature rhythms. Allchords were played in the four most common rhythms used in song writing.



CONTROLS1928 LEGACY PIANO contains a variety of different controls that allows you to fully sculpt thepiano to your liking. The range from basic controls over attack and release triggers, EQ,convolution reverb, pedal, denoising tool, velocity curve etc.

Attack, Release and Release Trigger

The attack and release controls allows youto control the fade-in (attack) and fade-out(release) of the sound. These shouldnormally not be touched unless you wantto create an artificial sounding piano.However the release trigger (rel. vol)should be adjusted to your liking, sincethese are separately sampled “releasetriggers”. These are specific samples of thepiano hammer detaching itself from thestring, so adjust depending on your liking.

EQ Controls

These controls allows you to control the low (bassrange), mid (mid range) and high (high range)frequencies of the piano. Increasing low’s makes amore warm/wooden feeling and increasing the

highs gives a more hissy/poppy sound. Use the EQswith care, since they change the character of pianodramatically.

Options: Pedal Noise & Denoise

The pedal control allows you to adjust thecontrol of the sustain pedal volume of thepiano. This is important in terms ofgenerating a realistic sound of the pedalrelease and tension.

The denoise button allows you to removeany noise artifacts in the samples. We donot believe in noise reducing our samples,so natural noise may occur when using theinstrument, but helps retain air and breath.



CONTROLS1928 LEGACY PIANO contains a variety of different controls that allows you to fully sculpt thepiano to your liking. The range from basic controls over attack and release triggers, EQ,convolution reverb, pedal, denoising tool, velocity curve etc.

Velocity Curve

The velocity curve control allows you to“reprogram” the velocity layers in the piano -meaning control when the different dynamic layers(ex. piano, forte) are triggered. You may adjustthis depending on your piano controller. You caneither turn the curve button and/or draw your ownvelocity curve in the visual editor.

Convolution Reverb

1928 LEGACY PIANO contains a specific FX menumade of convolution impulses.

This menu allows you to quickly load one of ourcustom-captured real-world convolution impulses.There are a variety of classic and unique impulses.We've also included a variety of self-evolving specialFX impulses to create great ambient effects. Please

note that these special mystery impulses requiresignificantly more CPU power than the other

impulses, due to their length. The convolution system always defaults to bypass mode when youfirst load an instrument. When the convolution chain is bypassed/disabled by choosing "none"from the Impulse Response drop-down menu, this knob is also disabled and only fully dry signal isaudible, with no signal attenuation. If you save an instrument while a convolution impulse isloaded, the instrument will remember your settings and automatically reload the sample impulsenext time you open the instrument.

Dry Mix: This knob controls the dry signal returning from Kontakt's internal convolution engine.

Turning it up past ~36 increases the gain over the original signal level and therefore may increasenoise or cause distortion in some cases.

Wet Mix: This knob controls the 'wet' effected signal returning from Kontakt's internal convolutionengine. Turning it up without balancing it against the dry level can quickly increase the totalcombined gain over the original signal level and therefore may increase noise or cause distortionin some cases.

Pre-Delay: This knob allows you to control the pre-delay of the convolution reverb.



SCORING TIPS1928 LEGACY PIANO contains a variety of options allowing you to sculpt new sounds out of thepiano. The obvious choice is to blend your piano with the guitar, hang drum, metal bowl, pipeharp, bell and propanium all featured in the library. Each of these piano-morphed instrumentsallows you create new blends and characters. The bell gives you that shimmery fairy tale sound -

where as the hang drum blends more tightly and really gives the phattest bass sound evercombined with piano.

The convolution reverb is another way of sculpting your sounds. We created a very extensive set ofconvolutions for this library and each of them brings a whole new dimension to the piano. Onething that rocks is to blend both the piano morphs (ex. Hang Drum, Metal Bowl and Bell) and thenactivate the convolution reverb for further processing. You can create some totally otherworldlysounding pianos by this combination and remember you can load several piano morphs at thesame time.

The LEGACY piano also detects your playing style and will trigger different samples based on howyou play. So when you play really fast without sustain the staccato samples really starts shining,since playing fast on a piano is notably different then playing slow.

But there is no right way of using the library. Its simple of matter of what is right to you♥ Troels.



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Thank you so much for purchasing the 8DIO 1928 LEGACY PIANO The production of 1928 LEGACY PIANO is not only a product of my ownvision, but also a product of patience from friends and family - and a productof countless discussions with a variety of great composers, producers and soforth.

Special thanks to Bill Brown, Ian Livingstone, Alan Steinberger, Kerry Muzzey,

Craig Sharmat, Colin O’Malley, Antongiulio Frulio and Ms. Knox.

Special thanks to Cam and Ingo - you guys rock it!

If you have any questions, concerns, love-letters or hate mail feel free to sendit to: [email protected]

♥ Troels Folmann

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