The Best of Bolder. Fortepiano FULL Edition. NI Kontakt 2 / Apple EXS24 (302 mb)

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1 The Best o Bolder Forteiano FULL Edition NI Kontakt 2 / Ale EXS24 (302 mb)

2 The Best O Bolder double CD ROM was released or Gigastudio in Aril o It consisted o choice material rom revious Bolder libraries. This volume is a continuation o converting that library into natively rogrammed instruments or NI Kontakt and the Ale EXS24. Other volumes that have already been converted are: Celtic Pies, Crystal Glasses and Meditation Bowls, Susended Slate Rocks, American Folk, World Music and the Granular Selections. History o this Library In the year 2000 the Bolder Forteiano volume was released or the EMU ESI It was the irst time a orteiano had been samled. The ESI 4000 only had a maximum RAM caacity o 128 mb. Due to this limitation I chose to use only 1 velocity layer () o the 4 layers that were samled. This was the version which eventually migrated over to Gigastudio and Kurzweil versions. Fast orward to the year I have returned to the original DAT taes (remember those?) o the original samling session and have use all 4 samled velocity levels as well as key release samles. This is being released as the Forteiano FULL edition library rom Bolder Sounds. Kontakt 2 and EXS24 ormats in 1 ackage This is the irst B.O.B. volume that I have decided to include both the Kontakt 2 and Ale EXS24 instruments and samles in the same zi ackage. It has become a very requent request rom Bolder customers who own both sotware samlers to want the other ormat as well, hoeully this will simliy things. Kontakt 2 Installation This is very simle. Coy the BOB Early Music older to your hard drive. Please DO NOT change the older directory structure, this is to avoid getting the dreaded samles missing error rom Kontakt 2. I you are not a EXS24 user, eel ree to deleted the small EXS instrument olders i you wish. DO NOT delete the BOB Early Music samles older, this is the samle data and it is very necessary! Ale EXS24 Installation Coy the BOB Early Music older to your hard drive. Move the BOB Early Music instruments older to Your EXS24 samler instruments older located at ~/Library/Alication Suort/Logic/Samler Instruments. I you are not a Kontakt user, eel ree to deleted the small Kontakt instrument olders i you wish. DO NOT delete the BOB Early Music samles older, this is the samle data and it is very necessary! Kontakt 2 DRY and IR olders You will ind 2 Kontakt instrument olders labeled DRY and IR. The DRY olders are.nki s with no reverberatory eects added. The olders labeled IR make use o Imulse Resonses rom the NI library to add room ambience or reverb to a instrument.

3 Kontakt and EXS24 Forteiano Programming Notes Kontakt 2 DRY and IR olders You will ind 2 Kontakt instrument olders labeled DRY and IR. The DRY olders are.nki s with no reverberatory eects added. The olders labeled IR make use o Imulse Resonses rom the NI library to add room ambience or reverb to a instrument. Key Release Samles Key release samles were recorded or each key o the orteiano. You will notice instruments with NR at the end o it s name. This means No Release samles are triggered on the note-o command rom your controller. this gives the user a otion o using the orteiano without the release samles i desired Velocity Curves You will notice in the instruments older there are 3 velocity curves reerred to as Forteiano Vel 1, 2 & 3. Below is a visual reerence as to what those velocity setting reresent. m m m Even velocity (iano) extended (orte) starts at 120 larger mid velocity range

4 Background On January 27th o 1999, I received an which began out as ollows: Jim Aikin (Keyboard magazine) told me about you and gave me your website, which I have just visited. I am a 77 year old retired hysician who has taken u electronic sound. The reason is that as a lielong classical ianist I see the ossibility o enlarging the leasure and knowledge o others like mysel by making the sounds o eriod ianos available to eole with digital ianos who are willing to use samlers... rom Howland Auchincloss o Cazenovia, NY. It is not everyday that you get s rom a retired hysician who wants to learn about the world o samling! So, o course I wrote back and we continued corresonding. I began teaching Howland (via ), what I knew about the crat o samling and sound design. I also had the leasure o having lunch with him in New York City June 1999, when I was there visiting my amily. There are many arguments ertaining to the ros and cons o samling acoustic instruments. I ersonally only see beneits o samling a instrument such as the orteiano or two reasons. These instruments are quite scarce and it gives the musician using the samle access to an instrument that in all likelihood would not be available at all. Do I think that a samle o a orteiano can relace real thing? No, I do not. But it is deinitely a valuable tool in today s digital music world. Also, it is ossible that a samle such as this might generate interest rom a musician who has only worked in the digital realm in exloring the world o early music instruments. The second reason is that this samleset (as well as others like it), may actually crossover into a world o early music bus, and they may actually take a look into the world that they had never considered - that o digital samling and it s ossibilities. So, I eel a roject like this could ossibly oen u new worlds at both ends o the sectrum. The orteiano samled or this library was built by Chris Maene, and it is a relica o a orteiano built by Anton Walter around 1780 in Vienna. Historical notes on the Forteiano By Howland Auchincloss The iano was invented around 1700 in Florence by Bartolomeo Cristoori. He called his invention gravicembalo col orte e iano (harsichord that lays loud and sot). Since that time the words ianoorte and orteiano (among others) have been used alternatively. In the last decades, however orteiano has become a standard term alied to a category o iano oular in Austria and Germany in about It was the roer instrument or erorming the iano works o Haydn, Mozart and early Beethoven. There are many dierences between a orteiano and a modern iano, but the most imortant ones to a listener are the bright tone, the shar attack and the raid decay. With the change o musical aesthetics in the latter art o the 18th century, the orteiano ushed the harsichord out o its re-eminent lace as a keyboard instrument. Such a victory was short-lived. Even in the lietime o Beethoven there were several changes to the orteiano as music came out o the home and into the ublic concert hall. By 1900 there was an Early Music Movement both in Euroe and in America. The rincial and earliest result o this activity was the revival o the harsichord. The orteiano was a late-comer to the early music movement. Major credit to its revival is to be given to Malcolm Bilson o Cornell University, whose recordings on it date to the 1970s. Bilson s most ambitious and recent undertaking has been a ten CD set o all o the Beethoven Sonatas on nine dierent orteianos on the Claves label. Bilson erormed seven o the sonatas, while others are erormed by six o his ormer artist-uils. Malcolm Bilson was extraordinarily helul in lending his own ersonal instrument or samling. This instrument is Maene I in the Claves Beethoven series. With the additional hel o Edward Swenson, a iano restorer, and Peter Hoer, a recording engineer, a set o good samles were obtained.

5 I would like to acknowledge and thank Dr. J. Howland Auchincloss o Cazenovia, NY and Malcolm Bilson o Cornell University or their contributions to making this library ossible. GENERAL LICENSE CONDITIONS: You may use these samles in any tye o music roduction, i.e. making demos, records, remixes, commercials, jingles, ost roductions, commissioned ieces, soundtracks or ilm, theatre, musicals, live erormances, comuter games or multimedia. Samles may not be utilized or resold in the orm o Library Music or Samle-related endeavors (e.g. Joe s Samle Collection which contains our roducts). Written ermission rom Bolder Sounds is required. You CAN NOT trade, re-sell, lend, rent, coy, dulicate, uload or download to any database, BBS, or Server any o our sounds because Bolder Sounds owns the rights to the samles, Bolder is licensing these to a single user or music roduction. * On a ersonal note... Please think twice beore making a coy o this disc or a riend or anyone else. All the legal mumbo jumbo in the world is not going to sto iracy o discs such as this. Many hours o work has gone into this library, I have also gone to great lengths to make this disc as aordable as I can so that this disc is NOT irated. As always... lease ut yoursel in our shoes beore making a decision whether to coy this data or uroses o iracy or not. Thank You! Dennis Burns October 2008 Bolder htt://boldersounds.com Creative Samle Libraries Since 1992