East West Quantum Leap Pianos is a library about 300Go containing 4 pianos: Bosendorfer 290, Bechstein 280,
Steinway D and
Yamaha C7. Each of the pianos can be separately installed on hard disk. On the whole the library is of very good quality, pianos were recorded with 18 levels of velocity, with or without
sustain, with staccato separately...
Interface Play allows to use this library intuitively. 3 positions of microphones allow to use pianos by being close to the piano
(close), in the position of the player (
player) or in the room (
room). It is interesting to note that the library does not contain
keyswitches, in other words there are not different articulations to be chosen. These last are automatically chosen according to game (
sustain, staccato). This allows to use the library entirely by playing from a master keyboard midi.
Pianos Bosendorfer and
Bechstein have one more classical direction with a deep and rich sound.
Steinway and
Yamaha have a more clear side also allowing them to find their place in pieces of varieties or of rock. On the whole the sonority of pianos remain rather dark, it will not be rare to level them slightly in high to give them a little of air. These pianos being very rich, a not negligible job is necessary during sound mixing to let them pervade the piece.
Technically, the library is imposing: of 30 in 60Go by pianos. It is therefore necessary to use it there
streaming via interface Play. On a correct computer, the library will work in a fluid way. It is however necessary to take precautions when the piece contains many quick notes or chords extended with the pedal of
sustain. The number of used
samples is consequent and can saturate the
buffer. In that case there can happen unpleasant artefacts of a rather high volume (parasites, breath). Solution consists therefore in regulating
buffer, latency and level of the engine of
Play.
In conclusion, East West Quantum Leap Pianos is probably one of the best libraries of pianos available on the market. The offered pianos are rich, realistic and recorded to everything in delicacy. The library is intuitive and easily usable. It remains however resource demanding, as well in disc space term as in
CPU. For more modest configurations, it is always possible to use version Gold, less expensive and less demanding.
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