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Bösendorfer 290 Imperial Premium Grand Piano
Premium Content for Yamaha MONTAGE
Imagine having not one but two incredible premium grand pianos, both optimized for MONTAGE. In addition to the incredible CFX, Yamaha is pleased to announce the Bösendorfer 290 Imperial Grand Piano library. Crafted in Vienna using exclusive Bösendorfer techniques, the Imperial 290 features the “Viennese Sound” – a characteristically warm tone perfect for playing Brahams, Beethoven, Oscar Peterson and more!
This content contains:
- 16 Performances
- 17 User Waveforms (409 MB)
- MONTAGE Library file
Performance List:
- 1 Imperial Grand Piano
- 2 Mellow Imperial
- 3 Imperial PopRock
- 4 Dark Wooden Box
- 5 Two Grands
- 6 Imperial Digi Pad
- 7 Imperial Tines
- 8 Ambient Trailer
- 9 Imperial Breakup
- 10 Imperial Strings
- 11 Imperial Garage
- 12 In the Distance
- 13 Imperial Harpsichord
- 14 All Digital
- 15 Imperial Jazz Trio
- 16 The Extra Pianist
Note:
This content is Library file, so current USER data are not overwritten.
Chick's Mark V - MONTAGE
Ref: Chick Corea's Mark V for Montage
Pack details:
1 library
16 Performances
- Chick’s Mark V
- CFX and Mark V
- Mellow Amp
- Overdrive Mark V
- Mark V Satellite
- Mark V Roto
- Mark V Meets Strings
- Stomped Phaser
- Mark V FM Pad
- Touch the Wah
- Wah Clav + Mark V
- Ghost in the Mark V
- Chick’s Old EP
- Ambient Mark V
- 70s Solos
- Accompanist Dreams
874 waveforms
Data is compressed at > 2:1 = 1.1GB Linear Equivalent.
Programmer's Notes
1) Chick’s Mark V - This is the clean version, just the voiced samples without amp sims or effects.
MW- LFO vibrato, Super Knob- this is a little “artsy.” I saw Chick used to use a space echo, so I went for an old style delay. One of the things I like about that effect is that the pitch changes when the delay time changes - as it’s supposed to. I made the Super Knob add delay and feedback for the first 3/4 of the turn, but then I also added a change in the delay time, which causes a strange, but cool pitch smear. If you sort of play the Super Knob by moving it while playing the keyboard, it’s a psychedelic little effect. AF1- brings in a resonant filter. It’s nice on its own, but it really works well if you play single note lead lines and use the pitch and mod wheels for a solo, AF2-Detune effect.
AK1- low eq, AK2 - mid eq, AK3 - hi eq, AK4- tremolo, AK5 - reverb send. Global AK6- delay amount, AK7- delay time, AK8- delay feedback
2) CFX and Mark V - Layered CFX and Mark V. MW- adds delay to the Mark V, SUPER KNOB- Lft: CFX only, Center: CFX/Mark V mix, Rt: Mark V only, AF1- moves Mark V up a fifth, AF2- adds a detune effect to the Mark V
3) Mellow Amp - Chick supposedly used a twin reverb on some of his earlier RTF recordings. While there is some breakup, the EP is still pretty warm on those recordings. I was going after that kind of sound with this performance. MW- ring modulator amount, Super Knob - amp distortion amount, AF1- strange, dark, pitch bent EP with a delay. The AK’s give more control over the delay time and feedback. AF2- immediately kicks in the full ring modulated sound, RB- ring modulator frequency. Jan Hammer and Chick and probably others used to use the Oberheim (later the Maestro) ring modulator and control the amount and frequency with their left hands while playing the keyboard with their right hand. This technique can be imitated on Montage by using the MW and RB.
4) Overdrive Mark V - This is similar to the performance above, but more distorted. MW- ring modulator amount, Super Knob - amp distortion amount, AF1- adds a second EP at a high harmonic. AF2- two detuned EP's, RB- ring modulator frequency.
5) Mark V Satellite - Imitates the Rhodes satellite speaker system that included stereo tremolo. MW- reduces the amount of tremolo, Super Knob - Lft: tremolo, Center: mix of tremolo and chorus, Rt: chorus, AF1- dark EP, AF2- slow attack, long release, RB- tremolo speed
6) Mark V Roto - Mark V through a rotary speaker. MW- rotary speed, Super Knob - distortion amount, AF1- adds organ, AF2- tremolo/wah effect
7) Mark V Meets Strings - Mark V layered with strings. MW- darkens strings and makes them more of a pad, Super Knob - string volume, AF1- removes EP for strings only, AF2- adds chorus to EP, RB- delay
8) Stomped Phaser - Mark V through phaser effect. MW- phaser amount, Super Knob - adds a second ambient EP layer, AF1- fast phaser tremolo, AF2- slow attack and release, RB- delay
9) Mark V FM Pad - Mark V with two FM pads. MW- pad brightness, Super Knob - pad volume, AF1- EP, pads only, AF2- adds ensemble detune to EP, RB- adjusts the amount of chorus on removes pads
10) Touch the Wah - Mark V with touch wah effect. MW- crossfades between clean and distorted wah ep, Super Knob - adds phaser, AF1- gets rid of slow wah attack and restores normal attack, AF2- slow attack and release which also creates a nice chattering sound from the wah in the in the lower registers, RB- wah resonance amount
11) Wah Clav + Mark V - layered touch wah clan with Mark V. MW- added distortion, SUPER KNOB- Lft: Mark V AF2- clean amp only, Center: mix of ep and clav, Rt: clav only, AF1- fast flanger (univibe sort of thing), sound, RB- adjusts the wah sensitivity which also adjusts the clav tone.
12) Ghost in the Mark V - Two map shifted Mark V’s. One is pretty normal, the other one is running through motion sequencer modulated effects with lots of feedback. It took me awhile to get them even this far and they’re still barely under control, but it’s kind of a cool, strange sound. MW- pitch mod on straight EP, Super Knob - Lft: straight EP, Center: mix between straight and effected EP, Rt: effected EP, AF1- effected EP up an octave, AF2- removes effected EP from the more chorused effect, RB- changes the sampling rate on the lo fi effect on the straight EP. AK3 on that part changes the word length on the same effect. The combination of these two can make some great variations of the sound.
13) Chick’s Old EP - map shifted down Mark V. MW- panning tremolo, Super Knob - Lft: dry, Rt: chorus, AF1- LP effect, AF2- turns filtered with a slight amount of resonance, velocity controlled cutoff on the chorus effect - like a chorus footswitch, RB- tremolo speed
14) Ambient Mark V - My first experiments with the envelope follower got this one. Part 1 is also the Mark V, made into a pad with upward mapping and effects. Part 2 is the more “normal” sounding EP, but since its pitch and filter are being modulated by the envelope of Part 1, it has a strange wobbling sound. MW- distortion, very compressed for a distortion pad sound, Super Knob - Lft: removes all ambience and modulation from main EP making it basically dry, Rt: all ambience and modulation fully mixed in, AF1- filter resonance added to main EP, AF2- adds second EP also following Part 1, but with negative depth so that the two EPs detune apart from one another. Also adds stereo panning of the EP elements, RB- changes the volume of Part 1, which changes the filter cutoff and pitch of Parts 2 and 3. This would be fun to manipulate while playing.
15) 70s Solo- Keyboard split with Mark V on left hand for comping and typical 70s minimoog lead sound (actually FM, in this case…). MW- vibrato on lead, Super Knob - changes the relative volume of the synth lead from quiet on the left to louder on the right, AF1- darker, more ambient EP and lead, AF2- adds a fifth above to the lead, RB- changes the filter cutoff on the lead sound, AT- vibrato on lead
16) Accompanist Dreams- Keyboard split with Mark V on left hand delayed with different intervals and effects. The right hand is monophonic for soloing and is a map shifted Mark V and an FM lead that reminded me of something Chick might have used in the old RTF days. MW- vibrato on leads, SUPER KNOB- Lft: the FM lead drops out and most of the first half of the SUPER KNOB just adjusts the volume of the solo EP, the FM lead comes in at around the center of the SUPER KNOB and becomes more dominant as the Super Knob is moved to the Rt, AF1- the FM lead has multiple octaves and the top octave has a pretty strong personality. AF1 takes the upper octave operators out of the mix. AF2- adds a ring modulator to the solo EP, RB- changes the pitch of some of the operators in the FM lead sound. At the very top, middle and very bottom of the RB, the sound is at different octaves. Anywhere else and it’s FM craziness. If you play around with this while AF2 is on, you can get some wild enharmonic leads going. AT- vibrato on leads. In addition, delay times and other craziness is on the AKs, so you can change the delay times and feedback on the left hand EP.
KApro CS80
1.1 What This Library is All About
The Yamaha CS-80 which was introduced in 1976 has been widely considered to be the greatest polyphonic synthesizer of all time. Indeed, it is a most marvellous sound creating device heard on so many seminal recordings, especially of the 1970s and the 1980s. Claus Kruse of YAMAHA was so kind to give YAMAHA’s own CS-80 to Peter (aka our KApro team member Prof. Dr. Peter Jung), several years ago. Peter’s work resulted in a widely known sample based sound library for the MOTIF XF MOXF synthesizer series. Now, encouraged by Claus’s request, Peter created a refurbished version of the original MOTIF XF/MOXF CS-80 library tailored to the MONTAGE. And here it is, the “KApro CS80” Sound Library for the YAMAHA MONTAGE.
Besides the MONTAGE versions of the 128 legacy programs contained in the original MONTAGE live sound modification features of the Super Knob, also using the pitch bend wheel, the modulation wheel, the ribbon, the assignable switches and, last but not least, aftertouch.
Remarkably, these 36 new programs also provide you with a very lively sound reproduction feature: the slight variation of the synth sound while repeatedly pressing the same key. You may know this feature under the expression “round robin”, widely deployed in symphonic VSTi’s. This feature is unprecedented in sample based synthesizer libraries for hardware workstations and makes the “KApro CS80” Sound Library really special. You will be overwhelmed by the vivid sound! Great for both live and studio use, the “KApro CS80” Sound Library contains sophisticated, lush performances suited perfectly for every style of popular music which exploits electronic sound synthesis. Moreover, the “KApro CS80” Sound Library also provides ambient atmospheres and textures making movie scores and soundtracks really special.
1.2 Some Technical Details
The “KApro CS80” Sound Library offers a varied sound set of
- one Live Set termed “KApro CS80” with seven pages termed “KApro CS80 p. 1” to “KApro CS80 p. 7”,
- 164 performances, all being SuperKnob and SuperKnob Motion Sequence enabled, based on 164 parts, having a total of 440 different scenes,
- 61 waveforms with 1,179 keybanks, (uncompressed memory size: 470 MB of PCM data).
Ref: CS-80 for Montage
MONTAGE Expanded
The Promotion Soundset MONTAGE Expanded was produced by Yamaha Music Europe in cooperation with EASY SOUNDS and Cool Webinars. It contains a high-quality compilation of Performances of different categories.
The Promotion Soundset features:
• 128 Performances • „DX7-Selection“
• 64 Performances • „EASY SOUNDS“ Selection
• 64 Performances • Cool Webinars „Multiple Choice“
The "DX7 Selection" is based on 128 original DX7 Voices. It is a selection from sound categories like electric piano, chromatic percussion, guitar, organ, brass, and some more. After the import they were refined with effects as well as suitable Super Knob routings. The "EASY SOUNDS" selection contains a selection from the following premium MONTAGE Soundsets:
• MONTAGE Phat Analog
• MONTAGE Xtasyn
• MONTAGE Live Instruments
• MONTAGE Nature of Chill
16 Performances each cover a very wide stylistic range and convey a good impression of the respective Soundset. The MONTAGE versions of these Soundlibraries are based on the products of the same name for the Yamaha MOTIF series, but have been extensively expanded using new features of MONTAGE. All Performances except the Drum Kits contain a Super Knob assignment. The Multi-Part-Performances contain up to eight Scenes and eight Parts, partly also FM-X Parts.
The 64 new Performances under the umbrella "Multiple Choice" by Cool Webinars are new MONTAGE Performances, which are divided into the following groups.
• Best Of Both Worlds - FM-X & AWM2 (8 Performances) This is a series of Performances consisting of one AWM2 and one FM-X Part. The outstanding combination of both sound engines and the full polyphony of 128 voices are the main features of these Performances.
• FM-X - From Digital to Analog (8 Performances)
As the name expresses, these Performances draw a bow from digital to analogue - but exclusively with the use of FM-X-Parts.
MONTAGE Expanded
• Keyboarder's Advantage (8 Performances) This compilation is intended for live keyboardists and contains typical Split and Layer combinations as well as some song-related Performances.
• Groovy MONTAGE (16 Performances) These Performances are all Arpeggio-based and use the diverse possibilities of the Scenes, the Super Knob, as well as the Motion Control Synthesis Engine.
• Single-Part Piano- and E-Piano-Collection (8 Performances) This compilation is an excellent basis for the creation of Layers with additional Parts or simply as 128-voice Single-Part-Performances.
• Chillin’ Pads & Spheres (8 Performances) Motion Sequences are used in these Performances to provide interesting ambiences.
• Musical & Sound Effects (4 Performances)
• Cool 8Z Drum Kits (4 Performances) These Performances don't need any additional explanation, their names are self explanatory.
All Performances were programmed under consideration of two main aspects. The first aspect for the Performances is their immediate use for live situations. Both the sound as well as the contoller routing is optimised for the stage. The second aspect, which applies to all 64 Performances, is the exemplary demonstration of the possibilities to program MONTAGE for various musical applications.
Special features and notes
In the Performances "FM-X ... perience 1/2" the drums were also realised by FM-X-Parts. The Parts correspond to an instrument, such as bassdrum and snare drum. The Performance series "Club MONTAGE" is prepared for DJ-like live mixing. In addition to the possibilities that result from Part mutes and volumes, the Motion Sequences were partly decoupled from the Scenes. Instead, they act on the bass, allowing additional variations and/or possibilities within each Scene.
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