New Akai CD-ROMs from Soundengine.com

Soundengine.com has announced the availability of two new AKAI S-1000 compatible CD-ROMs. The new CD-ROMs are available at a special introductory price of just $149.95 for each. "These sample disks for the AKAI are breathtaking," said Scott C. Peer, Soundengine.com President. "Michiel has a top notch production studio in Amsterdam, and these disks show his skill as a producer and engineer as well."

Post Prepared Piano:
A pristine collection of Prepared Yamaha C3 studio samples, using 2 DPA (formerly Bruel&Kjaer) series 4000 omni-directional microphones. Digital Recording, after 24 bit A/D conversion, took place on Tascam DA45 24 bit DAT-master. Recordings were edited in ProTools 4.3.1 on a PT|24 Mix card. A little Trueverb was applied, along with some Focusrite F2 & F3 (EQ and Dynamics), and mastered to Hard Disk in 16 bit Sound Designer II format with Waves UltraMax (L1) dithering and noise shaping. The recordings were subsequently transferred into the AKAI S1100 with PEAK 2.

Bank listing:

• Partition A: cage piano
• Partition B: gong piano
• Partition C: pedal piano
• Partition D: lood piano
• Partition E: paper piano
• Partition F: percus piano
• Partition G: piano scrape
• Partition H: piano bass
• Partition I: knock+scrape

Post Organ Toolkit:
An unbelievable anthology of European Church Organ samples. Michiel Post has traveled Europe to compose the most amazing collection of samples that we've ever heard.

BAVO organ: Sounds ranging from Tutti, Fonds, Mixtures, Bourdons, Anches, Cornets, Hobo, Clarinet, Dulciane to Voix Celestes. All with separate programs for pedals. 29, mostly stereo, programs, total of 40 MB. Best suited for full organ concerts. Using all programs in a piece or sequence takes 50 Mbytes of RAM.

MAX ORGAN: The Big BAVO ORGAN (Haarlem) andCONCERTGEBOUW ORGAN (AMSTERDAM) 12 programs with very long stereo samples, 30 key-zones multi-sampling. This is a perfect set for recordings and true perfectionists. Every single program takes at least 20 MB of RAM! These programs are extremely realistic and most impressive. Plenum, Tutti, Principal, Positif, Baroque Plenum, Hauptwerk mix and Hauptwerk stop, Brustwerk, Flutes, Cornet, Symphonic Plenum and Plenum Reeds.

CONCERTGEBOUW ORGAN: The CONCERTGEBOUW in AMSTERDAM. This is a beautiful and very useful collection of mono samples. 40 different programs require in total only 20 MB of RAM! Perfect for modern music. The big organ of the famous Concertgebouw in Amsterdam was sampled for a concert of modern composition VARESE (EQUATORIAL) The Concertgebouw organ samples are over 22 MB. This collection is incredibly versatile, but very difficult to describe, mostly with unique combinations of low-range played 2' or 4' sound and high-range played 16' 32' etc. Very interesting stuff. POST ITALIAN 8 basic, mono programs from a very fine Italian organ. If you combine all of these programs in a multi-timbral set-up you have the most impressive organ tutti ever heard from a box!

EMULATIONS:
26 programs of digital re-synthesis organ emulation's of real organ sounds. Very convenient if you want to save on RAM memory in your sampler or if you Want to mix some extra character to sampled organ material.

Bank listing:

• Partition A: solo instr 1, solo instr 2, tutti, plenum+mix
• Partition B: concert 1, concert 2
• Partition C: simulated 2, simulated 2, fonds, fonds 2, fonds 3
• Partition D: italian, italian 2
• Partition E: plenum reeds, baroque plenum
• Partition F: symphinc plenum, solo cornet, flutes
• Partition G: positiv, prinzipal, hauptwerk, mix
• Partition H: hauptw. stops, brustwerk stops
• Partition I: full organ

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