Gran Coda

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Hephaestus Sounds

Steinway and Sons Concert Grand

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Product Overview

Gran Coda is a sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt that offers you a stunning detailed experience of a real Concert Piano. Sampled from a real Steinway & Sons concert piano, immediately after an accurate tuning operation. The sound is extremely clear, dynamic and realistic, thanks to the sampling of all the sound details with very hi-sense microphones.

Please ensure you have the full version of kontakt to run this library. Do not buy if you intend to use the free kontakt player version.

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Overview

Stunning Design

Gran Coda features realistically rendered pianos interfaces to inspire you during your performance.

Features

48 KHz 24-bit Stereo sample resolution
6 .NKI presets
5 dynamic layers smoothly connected to avoid sudden sound changes
Keys, Sustain pedal & Damper FX
Sustain pedal samples with Hephaestus' IR Harmonic Restoration and Hephaestus' Real-Time Engine to switch between closed & damper samples in real-time when pressing the sustain pedal
Resonance & Key-off samples
Release key noises have a dedicated script to avoid the sustain pedal release conflict
Distance knob to move the piano away from you
Stereo knob to adjust the sound field
Soundboard, Presence and Exciter knobs to adjust the sound frequencies
Dedicated environment with an IR sample reverb
Compressed file size of ONLY 317 MB
Works on Kontakt 5.2.1 or newer (15 minutes on Kontakt Player).

Customer Reviews

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Good quality. Gran coda concert similar to the Bosendorfer
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Piano from my shool
I remember the sound of a piano from my music school. Gran Coda sounds the same. I have a huge sentiment. It's lightweight, natural. I often use Gran Coda.
Szymon Szewczyk

Nice Piano Sound
A very nice and inspiring piano sound for a relatively small footprint.
Larbi Megateli

A Great Grand Piano Library
Hephaestus Sounds always makes us nice surprises, whether are these its free titles or its affordable and great sounding commercial libraries. Gran Coda, based on a Steinway grand piano, is surely the best inexpensive piano library for Kontakt, judged upon its content, quality of the sound and playability. It has all necessary patches for a budget virtual piano library - a concert grand, a studio grand, a rock and a pop grand, an upright and a saloon piano and even a harpsichord. The sound is clear, convincing, a bit feeble in lower register, but sharp and dry and utilizable for any kind of professional musical production. Included controls are good. The bottom line would be a very realistically sounding grand/upright piano library, with high playability and for a fraction of the price other libraries of similar quality have. Bravo once again for Hephaestus.
Pedro Kerstitzsch

Very versatile
A a dozen pianos, each using a variety of adjustments and effects. Good sounds all round, very versatile and workable in many recording situations. The adjustments and effects are a real bonus.

Gran Coda
The Gran Coda demo was one of my most used Kontakt pianos. The demo included just the concert piano which is fantastic by itself, but when I learned that I was able to get 12 different pianos of the same quality for only $10, I immediately jumped at the opportunity. This library is fantastic. I really don't need any other for a straight up piano sound in my songs. Would highly recommend this library.
Ryan Temple

Excelente
Veo que es un gran producto y de gran calidad, además por un precio muy reducido. Saludos.
Carlos Andr�s Paspuel Pusda

A good set of samples
A good set of samples
william Oswald

Nice piano for nice price
Pros: - Nicely sampled and sounds great to just play - 12 different piano styles (including Concert, Upright, Studio, Honky Tonk) - Nice effects to play with (eg. Distance, Width, Presence, Exciter, Realism, Reverb) - Tiny memory footprint - Nice price (and free demo version available if you search) Cons - There are better and more extensively sampled pianos out with there - Bright upright sound doesn't always sit well in quieter mixes.
Andrew Carslaw

great piano for a fantastic price!
Great Grand Piano for a Fantastic Price! Thank you guys!
sahin koc

Inspiringly Realistic
I downloaded the free sample of this program and knew I wanted to pay for it after playing and recording with this beautiful instrument. Thank you Hephaestus Sounds!
Mark Sammo

Very good
A great sounding, albeit a bit raw piano
Adam Krzyz