Description:

Garritan announces the release of the Authorized Steinway Virtual Concert Grand Piano, a sample-based software instrument developed in collaboration with Steinway & Sons, maker of the world's finest pianos.

The Authorized Steinway Virtual Concert Grand piano accurately captures the distinctive sound of the hallmark Steinway & Sons concert grand piano - with unprecedented authenticity and musicality.

The library comes in three versions: Professional, Standard and Basic. The Professional version offers the superb Steinway Model D piano with five different listening perspectives:

• Player perspective from the bench
• A classical recording perspective
• An under-the-lid perspective
• A stage perspective
• A close audience perspective

The Standard version offers the under lid and classic perspectives.

The Basic version, ideal for students, amateur musicians, and educators, is a light version that offers a single perspective. The Basic version will also be available in downloadable format.

The Steinway concert grand piano chosen for the sample set is among Steinway's finest Model D's — newly voiced, regulated, and meticulously tuned by a master Steinway technician. Recording was done in one of the finest venues in the world, The Troy Music Hall.

Features

Advanced programming also makes this a truly "playable" and responsive library. Among its many features:

• Created in partnership with Steinway & Sons
• The very finest concert grand piano—the Steinway Model D Concert Grand hand-picked by Steinway & Sons
• Overseen by Steinway & Sons' most accomplished master technician
• Sustain/Sostenuto/Soft pedal support
• Proportional sustain pedaling
• Multiple-stage tracking release triggers to provide the natural release of the hammer from the string
• Sustain resonance and sympathetic resonance using convolution-based DSP modules
• Adjustable mechanical noises
• Adjustable velocity curves
• Recorded soft pedal samples including releases
• Adjustable polyphony
• A variety of historical tunings and Scala file import
• Aria Sample Player by Plogue included
• MIDI playback and record in standalone
• Ambience reverb and 3 band EQ
• Graceful Copy Protection (no dongles or challenge response)
• Many more compelling features
  

About Steinway & Sons

Steinway & Sons, headquartered in New York, produces the world's finest pianos. Steinway pianos are sold by nearly 200 authorized dealers worldwide. Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol LVB for Ludwig van Beethoven. Steinway & Sons was founded on March 5, 1853 by German immigrant Henry Engelhard Steinway and his sons in New York City, one of the major centers of the piano-making industry in North America at that time. Henry, a master piano-maker, built his first piano in the kitchen of his home in Germany. Over the next forty years, Henry and his sons developed the modern piano, patenting the most significant technologies in the piano industry.

New Technology - ARIA Player

Powered by the robust and reliable ARIA Player, the Garritan Authorized Steinway Virtual Concert Grand runs on these platforms:

• MAC OS X 10.4 and higher
• Windows XP/Vista
• Linux version under development
• Standalone
• Plug-in (VST, Audio Units and RTAS), as well as supported notation programs.

System Requirements

• 2.8 Ghz CPU Pentium 4 or better for PC, 2.0 Ghz
  Core 2 Duo MacIntel or better for Mac.
• 2 GB RAM Recommended
• 45GB of free hard drive space—Professional Edition 16 bit; 67GB Professional Edition 24 bit; or 16 GB of free hard drive space—Standard Edition. 1.5GB Basic version.
• Hard drive speed of at least 7200 RPM
• DVD ROM drive required for installation
• Monitor with 1,024x768 resolution or better
• A sound card compatible with ASIO
• MIDI: A MIDI interface may be required if you are using a MIDI keyboard (88-key full-sized MIDI keyboard recommended). Some keyboards use USB.
• High quality speakers and amplifier, or high quality headphones
• Internet connection for online registration

COMPARISON CHART

	Professional Edition	Standard Edition	Basic Edition
Size	67 GB (24bit)	16 GB	1.3 GB uncompressed
	42 GB (16 bit High Quality)		100 MB compressed
	Every note sampled	Every note sampled	Fewer samples
Contents	Hardcover 96 page color manual	Hardcover 96 page color manual	PDF Manual
	5 DVDs	2 DVDs
Quality	24 bit & 16 bit High Quality	16 bit High Quality	16 bit Good Quality
Perspectives	Classic	Classic	Close Audience
	Under the Lid	Under the Lid
	Player Perspective
	Stage Side
	Close Audience
Pedaling	Sustain/Sostenuto/Soft	Sustain/Sostenuto/Soft	Sustain/Sostenuto
	Proportional Sustain	Proportional Sustain	Proportional Sustain
Formats	Mac & PC (32 & 64 bit)	Mac & PC (32 & 64 bit)	Mac & PC (32 & 64 bit)
	Standalone	Standalone	Standalone
	VST	VST	VST
	Audio Units	Audio Units	Audio Units
	RTAS (Pro Tools)	RTAS (Pro Tools)	RTAS (Pro Tools)
Features	Multiple-stage tracking release triggers	Multiple-stage tracking release triggers
	Sustain Resonance	Sustain Resonance	Sustain Resonance
	Sympathetic Resonance	Sympathetic Resonance	Sympathetic Resonance
	Adjustable mechanical noise	Adjustable mechanical noise	Adjustable mechanical noise
	Adjustable velocity curves	Adjustable velocity curves	Adjustable velocity curves
	Adjustable polyphony	Adjustable polyphony	Adjustable polyphony
	Historical tunings	Historical tunings	Historical tunings
	Scala file import	Scala file import	Scala file import
	MIDI playback in Standalone	MIDI playback in Standalone	MIDI playback in Standalone
	Audio recording in standalone	Audio recording in standalone	Audio recording in standalone
	Ambience Reverb	Ambience Reverb	Ambience Reverb
	3 band EQ	3 band EQ	3 band EQ