I seem to be reviewing a lot of products that I did not think I needed. Another sampled piano? Ho-hum, I have good ones up the wazoo, what do I need another for? The answer is because this one is damned good, featuring maybe the nicest tone I have heard. I have several libraries from Embertone and generally like their efforts so my mind was open to listening and what I heard in the demos on their website impressed me.
What You Get
Embertone sampled a 9 foot vintage Steinway D. It has 10,000 release samples, dedicated staccato samples and is available with just one mic position or all six. If you buy the “Lite” single mic version (12 GB download) you can purchase additional ones a la carte for the very reasonable price of $15 each. The “Full” (34 GB download) has all six included plus Una Corda. Both versions however also have sostenuto and re-pedaling simulation. Each mic position has 34 GB of samples. Since a picture is worth a 1,000 words, here is all you need to know about the mics used.
