VSL Instruments Vienna Imperial Virtual Piano

Vienna Imperial Virtual Piano description:

The Vienna Symphonic Library VIENNA IMPERIAL is an emulation of the flagship Bösendorfer Imperial 290-755 Grand Piano, the Rolls Royce among all grands.

VSL VIENNA IMPERIAL features Bösendorfer’s patented CEUS technology, which allowed the Vienna team the most precise and by far most extensive piano sample recordings ever conducted in the history of music technology. 1,200 recorded samples per key represent a magnitude of sampling detail.

Up to 100 velocities were recorded per key and playing technique, i.e., with and without pressing the sustain pedal, and alternatively with the soft pedal down. There are simply no audible steps between the singular velocity layers, and every single key has its own authentic velocity curve.

These precise recording techniques would have been impossible without Bösendorfer’s CEUS technology. No human pianist, no matter how skilled, would be able to play 100 evenly spaced velocities from pianissimo to fortissimo, not to mention playing them consistently across all playing techniques such as sustain pedal or soft pedal down.

Vienna Imperial remains flexible and can be placed easily in any virtual environment you may choose. You may select between three microphone positions, resulting in three different sonic basis points and lending the Vienna Imperial well to orchestral music, romantic ballads, contemporary pop and rock tracks as well as jazz performances.

The Vienna Symphonic Library VIENNA IMPERIAL Main Features Include:

• Emulation of the flagship Bösendorfer Imperial 290-755 Grand Piano
• 1,200 recorded samples per key
• Up to 100 velocities
• CEUS technology
• 3 microphone positions: Distant, Middle and Close
• Recorded Styles:
  Sustain pedal up
  Sustain pedal down
  Soft pedal (una corda) down
  Repetition tones for sustain pedal down (hitting the sounding string)
  Repetition tones for soft pedal down (hitting the sounding string)
  Release samples in different lengths
  Release samples in different lengths with the soft pedal down
  Sympathetic resonance tones of individual keys (sustain pedal up)
  Sympathetic resonance tones of the whole piano (sustain pedal down)