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CONSOLIDATED! FULL BUNDLE
13 complete PMI Sample Libraries in one collection.
PIANOS:
PMI GRANDIOSO BOSENDORFER 290 (full version)
PMI GRANDIOSO STEINWAY D (Classic version)
PMI POP/ ROCK YAMAHA C7 CONCERT PIANO (Ambient)
POST ESTONIA CONCERT GRAND (Full version)
PMI PIANO SUITE: Orchestral Instruments, Steinway D, Prepared Piano (Full
version)
ORGANS:
THEATRE ORGAN* (17 ranks), POSITIF ORGAN* (2 ranks), ITALIAN ORGAN* (5
stops), SOLO ORGAN INSTRUMENTS* (16 stops), ORGAN TUTTI* (14 stops),
CONCERTGEBOUWORGAN* (35 stops) &SIMULATED ORGANS* (26 stops)
(*Full versions)
HISTORIC INSTRUMENTS:
PMI HISTORIC KEYBOARDS: Fortepiano, French &Flemish Harpsichords and
Virginal
MISC.:
6 ACCORDIONS (13 stops), CHURCH BELLS &ANVILS, KALIMBA, GUITAR (Steel
String), TOY PIANO, DULCIMERS, OCCARINA, HARP, ALTO FLUTE, BASS FLUTE,
BASS TROMBONE, Bb CLARINET, CELESTA, GLOCKENSPIEL, MARIMBA, HARMO-
NIUM and more.
CONSOLIDATED! FULL BUNDLE was created by Michiel Post
copyright 2004
Post Musical Instruments BV
Rijnstraat 4 1078 RA AMSTERDAM
THE NETHERLANDS
www.postpiano.com
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the Post Positif Organ
Playing the Post Positif Organ lets you
experience the true sound of this me-
chanical action historical instrument. Each
key release action reproduces the actual
sound of the pipe being closed, resulting
in a unrivalled level of realism!
About The Positif
Some European churches in the Middle
Ages used hand- held organs to play the
notes during choir processions.
There are paintings of such organs show-
ing a neck strap, a bellows pumped by the
left hand, and a keyboard controlling per-
haps a dozen pipes. Thus the Portatif, or
portable choir organ.
As the number of pipes grew so that the Portative was too heavy to carry, it had to re-
main in one position. Thus the Positif. The choir singers sat at the front - - east end - -
of the church house with the Choir organ, whether it was Portative or Positif. The Positif
has a mechanical action. Keys are attached by mechanical linkage directly to valves in
chests. Distances are kept short. Mechanical action was used for hundreds of years be-
fore the use of electricity, which occurred around 1900, and is still the favourite system
for many organists because it allows more direct control of the valves.
Organ disposition
- Flute 8, - Holpijp 4 ,- Quint
The Presets
0 Flute (= Flute *), 1 Holpijp (=Holpijp 4), 2 Flute&Holpijp (is the recorded combination
of Flute8 and Holpijp 4), 3 Quint (= is the Quint), 4 Tutti (is the recorded combination
Flute8+Holpijp4+Quint)
* remark: "rel" and "no rel" in the instrument name describe if the release layer is used.
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Instrument
The Dutch organ builder Strunk
built the immense organ in the
Amsterdam City movies theatre in
the 1935. The instrument is still
in use today for concerts. The
instruments consists of three
rooms. The main room counts 11
ranks of pipes, the first Solo
room has 7 ranks and the 2nd
Solo room had 8 additional ranks,
but was lost 10 years ago. The
picture above shows the paying table and the pipes in the Strunk organ factory in 1934.
All ranks were chromatically sampled, capturing the true nature and character of each
pipe. Samples are 10 to 15 seconds long with perfect loops to enable playing of unlim-
ited length of notes. The true release sound of the organ pipes was also recorded and is
reproduced upon key- release. This feature produces natural sounds as never experi-
enced before.
All programs have 50 multisamples recorded in stereo, with the true release reverbera-
tion tail recorded in the theatre. The programs are around 100 MB each, making the
total size of these individual stops 1.4 GigaBytes.
Post Theatre Organs
MAIN ORGAN INSTRUMENTS
There is a GigaStudio performance file called "main" that contains all main instrument
files laid out over the 12 first midi channel, making is easy to audition and stacks all
these sounds.
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SOLO INSTRUMENTS
To combine several stops simultaneous there are two methods.
1 Use layers in your sampler
2. Use multiple midi- channels
NOTE
Both methods will suffer from the maximum polyphony limitation that is typical for your
specific computer set- up. Each note played on a Post Theatre Organs stop eats up 4
voices (2 for the stereo sample and 2 for the stereo release sound). Playing an 8 voice
choral passage uses 32 voices, when you use one single program. When you layer two
sounds this amount is doubled. When playing 4 programs at the same time each key
requires 16 voices! A 10 voice chord will max out any system when 4 or more sounds
are layered.
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the Post Organ Toolkit
The POSTORGAN collection is the largest and most versatile collection of high quality
organ samples in the whole world. The 113 programs are approx. 1,500 samples (over
300 MB); all perfect sounding, cleanly looped, most in full stereo.
This complete collection guarantees that you will find the exact sound youre looking
for. By combining several programs simultaneously you can create every possible regis-
tration any organ can produce!
The collection consists of 5 blocks;
1/ Solo Instruments section &Tutti&Plenums
The ORGAN of the Big BAVO in HAARLEM.
A very famous Dutch organ sounds ranging from Tutti, Fonds, Mixtures, Bourdons,
Anches, Cornets, Hobo, Clarinet, Dulciane to Voix Celestes . And separate programs for
pedals.
2/ MAX
From the Big BAVO ORGAN and CONCERTGEBOUWORGAN (AMSTERDAM)
12 programs with very long stereo samples, 30 key- zones multisampling. This is a per-
fect set for recordings and true perfectionists.
These programs are extremely realistic and most impressive.
Plenum, Tutti, Principal, Positif, Baroque Plenum, Hauptwerk mix and Hauptwerk stop,
Brustwerk, Flutes, Cornet, Symphonic Plenum and Plenum Reeds.
3/ CONCERTGEBOUWORGAN (Maarschalkerweerd & zoon 1891)
The sounds were sampled from the famous organ of the CONCERTGEBOUWin AMSTER-
DAM. This is a beautiful and very useful collection of mono samples.
35 different. Perfect for modern music.
4/ POST ITALIAN
6 basic, mono programs from a very fine Italian organ.
5/ EMULATIONS
26 programs of digital re- synthesis organ emulations of real organ sounds. Very con-
venient if you want to save on RAM memory in your sampler or if you to mix some extra
character to sampled organ material.
Add REVERB !!!
Perhaps the most important aspect of church organs sound characteristic is the sound of
the space where the organ is playing. All the samples on this CD- ROM are recorded as
clean as possible. It gives you the important job of adding reverb. Use a reverb proces-
sor that is the absolute best you- can- get for best results.
Be creative !!!
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Post Harpsichords
The French Double- manual
We made the choice for this instrument because the mid- 18th century French style
harpsichord represents the most successful "general" purpose instrument. The instru-
ment is suitable to all of the harpsichord literature of the baroque.A double- manual
instrument of elegant proportion and detail having a range of five octaves, FF- f''' (61
notes). There are three ranks of jacks and three choirs of strings, 2 x 8', 1 x 4', with a
buff stop which can be installed on either the back 8' choir or the upper- manual 8'. The
recording of this instrument was done in a nice room, which adds to the characteristic
sound of the harpsichord.
The French Harpsichord The Flemish Double- manual
A fine example of the full blown antique Flemish harpsichord. Very popular for the full
repertoire, with a flexible, clear resonant tone, making it an ideal concert instrument.
Double manual, FF- f3 chromatic, 2 x 8' + 1 x 4', shove coupler, buff to lower 8'.
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Post Virginal
The Presets
Virginal soft release and Virginal loud release are exactly what they seem. The release
sound (when you release a key) was recorded at different volumes and each variation is
captured in these programs.
The Virginal 8' + 4' instrument offers the instrument coupled with its sound an octave
higher. This Gig offers soft and loud release variations.
Virginal muted is a muted variation of the instrument and also offers an octave higher.
Virginal FX sounds, FX harps and Special Harpsichord Instrument offer special filter and
other parameter settings that produce wonderful sounds based upon the virginal sam-
ples.
Post Fortepiano
After about 1800 the fortepiano was gradually replaced almost as completely as it had
replaced the harpsichord. Essentially, although the term "fortepiano" was still sometimes
used, the actual instrument came more and more to resemble the modern piano.
The price of a new fortepiano reconstruction is high, the instrument requires frequent
tuning, and the number of keys is considerably less than is the case for the modern
piano. It is therefore not satisfactory as a general- purpose piano. As a result, it is still
difficult for most pianists, amateur or professional, to gain personal experience with the
very special qualities of this instrument which was so popular in Vienna more than
200 years ago.
With the present disk there is now available a sampled fortepiano, and we no longer can
say that the acoustic instrument is indispensable to
the ability of a pianist attempting to create the
sound of a Haydn sonata on the fortepiano.
This important historic keyboard was sampled with
3 velocity layers and has several presets to choose
from. There are several filtered variations, a mod-
erator patch and one sustain only preset.
The instrument sampled is a restored Walther, sam-
pled in a small room, adding a little ambience.
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Post Estonia
This full size 9' model is hand made, has Renner
actions assembled at Renner in Germany, birch rims,
Delignit pin blocks, Abel hammers...among other
desirable technical features, which it turn create the
tone, touch and stability that is Estonia.
The Presets
The instrument was sampled with 4 layers of velocity
(both pedal up and pedal down) also 4 layers of ve-
locity were used to capture the release key action of
this piano. The 15 instrument variations give the
options of playing the piano with sustained notes
only (!), no sustained notes, no release layer, special
'dark' settings
Post Accordions
POST ACCORDIONS is the most complete and usable collection of accordion samples
available! There are full chromatic multi- sampled instruments of a Hohner Morino, an
Accordiana, a Concertina, a Paolo, a Parrot .
Program details:
- PAOLO ITALY. An old and characteristic instrument. The largest Piano accordion in this
set. 34 treble notes. Perfect for ZYDECO. -
- PAOLO SAX (the 8 foot registration, almost no vibrato)
- PAOLO MUSETE (very convincing vibrato, full tone, clear and versatile...)
CONCERTINA: a beautiful and very expensive new Concertina made by STAGI. Very
smooth and agile instrument, originally designed for classical music, but very suited for
folk music and choral song accompaniment. Its hexagonal shape made me love the
instrument right away..
- ACORDIANA:button accordeon (often called button box, squeeze box or melodeon).
- PARROT :This is a very cheap and old instrument, with a very personal sound. Seriously
out of tune, charming as can be...
- HOHNER 16 This is basically the 16 foot registration from the beautiful HOHNER
MORINO. I recorded all white keys. So there were 26 stereo samples. First partition is
stereo (30 MB). I made several programs, with and without additional LFO vibrato, with
and without artificial stop and beginning note clicks . Listen to the keys being pressed
and released...!
- HOHNER MUSETTE This is a 3x 8 foot registration on the MORINO. All reeds are a little
bit differently pitched, giving a very beautiful vibrato. Also several programs with LFO
and additional click
- HOHNER TUTTI 16+8+4 ft. (30 Mb) Same story as above but the 16 foot+8 foot+4
foot registration.
Church Bells
The worlds first tuned church bells. The programs contain over 30 churchbell samples.
Some are spread chromatically over the keyboard. Others make a carillion, where one
bell can be played over a large keyboard range. Another patch offers great sonic control
over the timbre by playing at different velocity levels.
Anvils
This disc contains a collection of high quality ANVIL samples. More than 25 different
anvils or other large metal objects were recorded and processed in ProTools.
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Post Piano Suite
The Post Steinway D Concert Grand piano is a 8- layer chromaticly sampled Steinway D,
with seperate samples for sustain- pedal down notes. This brilliant instrument was sam-
pled using the best microphones, convertors and recording equipment, resulting in an
incredible piano sound.
The PostPreparedPiano contains 14 special instruments. The Full PreparedPiano for J
Gage's Music for Prepared Piano is the prescribed registration with all the bolds and
screws between and over the Steinway C piano strings. The Pedal piano is another regis-
tration we made for John Cage's music. Other presets are: GongPiano (really sounds like
gongs but are piano strings!), Knock (when you hit the piano real hard with the pedal
down), Paper (pieces of newspaper between the high strings), Lood (pieces of metal
between the strings), Scrape (using a coin to scrape along a low note string) and others
complete this collection of unusual and very usable piano sounds.
The Orchestral Instruments contains several classic keyboard/ orchestral percussion
instruments: Celesta (One of the most beautiful instruments was sampled in the orches-
tra pit at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam), Glockenspiel (The file is small but has a
very strong and bright tone), Register
Piano (A historic recording of a remark-
able and truely unique instrument),
Harmonium, Hackbrett, Marimba and
Vibraphone complete this collection
The SimplePianoCollection contains the
four basic playing styles captured in one
instrument each. Forte, Pianissimo,
Fortissimo and MezzoForte played sam-
ples are used to create very playable
piano's. These instruments are perfect
for quick piano sequencing when you
don't want to load the whole Post Stein-
way D Concert Grand or when you want
that specific style no matter how loud or
soft you play the keyboard.
Miscellaneous
KALIMBA, GUITAR (Steel String), TOY PIANO, DULCIMERS, OCCARINA, HARP, ALTO
FLUTE, BASS FLUTE, BASS TROMBONE, Bb CLARINET, CELESTA, GLOCKENSPIEL, MARIMBA,
HARMONIUM
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The GRANDIOSO Pianos
These libraries provide the greatest possible control during the softest pianissimo,
through crescendos to the reserves of power needed for the loudest fortissimo. Utilizing
new technology to optimise the mechanical performance of the action, Post Musical
Instruments BV has created a product which leaves the pianist in total control of dynamic
response, timbre and touch. The Bsendorfer 290 library gives you the control over the
exact position of the microphone perspective. You have both Dry and Wet mics and
have the option to mix them to match the sound you want to create.
Updates
Free updates for the GRANDIOSO libraries are available for registered users on our com-
pany website www.postpiano.com where a guide can be found explaining how to install
the updates.
Your GRANDIOSO library will serve you for years, just like e real instrument. We will
supply major upgrades (which need new DVDs or CDs) when they become available at
minimal costs.
GRANDIOSO Bsendorfer 290
The incomparable Imperial Concert Grand is arguably
the finest piano available anywhere today. Acclaimed
by the Worlds top artists, it is a joy to hear and play.
The Imperial has one of the largest sound boards of
any concert instrument, being some 30%larger than
most typical recital pianos. This helps to produce the
immense dynamic range for which the piano is fa-
mous. No matter how loudly it is played, it responds
without loss of sound quality, and there are always
great reserves and a vast range of tonal colours and
expression.
The Piano Patches
The instruments can be divided into 2 categories: dry and wet. Depending on your li-
brary you have one or both categories.
DRY
Dry B290 8 basic. The basic dry patch. You can use the modulation wheel on your
master keyboard to control the EG release time settings. With the wheel all the way
down the release time is short (approx. 0.2 sec in the middle octaves and 0.4 in the
bass) with the wheel up the release time is raised with 0.9 sec.
Dry B290 8- layer no release * Same as above but without the release ambience
samples. This reduces the polyphony load and sounds very dry.
Dry B290 8- layer long release * Same as basic dry patch but with more focus on
the release ambience samples.
Dry B290 8- layer LP Filter * Same as basic 8 layer dry patch but with an additional
velocity controlled low pass filter to allow a mellow tone.
*modulation wheel controls release time
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WET
Wet B290 8- layer + sustain (prog. Nr 0) * Basic wet patch.
Wet B290 8- layer + release (prog. Nr 2) * Basic wet patch but with release samples.
Wet B290 4- layer + release (prog. Nr 3) * Wet patch which has both release sam-
ples and separate sustain pedal up and down samples.
Wet B290 16- layer (prog. Nr 4) * The smoothest 16 layer patch has all dimensions
used to allow the maximum number of velocity layers.
Wet B290 8- layer no release (prog. Nr 8) *
Wet B290 8- layer (+ sustain) Low Pass Filter (prog. Nr 12) * Same as basic 8 layer
wet patch but with an additional velocity controlled low pass filter to allow a mel-
low tone.
Wet B290 16- layer Low Pass Filter (prog. Nr 12) * Same as the 16 layer wet patch
but with an additional velocity controlled low pass filter to allow a mellow tone.
*modulation wheel controls release time
GRANDIOSO Steinway D (classic)
We recorded the best grand piano we could find. Steinway is THE grand piano for most
concert pianists. This particular instrument is in premium condition, a Steinway model
D3 with serial number 393210 which was built in 1965. It was fully refurbished by
Steinway Hamburg in 1999. This piano served the Rotterdam 'DOELEN' concert hall for
several decades, where hundreds of famous musicians, from Claudio Arrau to the Rolling
Stones, performed for live audiences and broadcast concerts.
This instrument is best suited for most contexts. It has more character and realism than
any other sampled piano we've heard. We used no processing other than level optimiza-
tion, and a little eq to remove unwanted frequencies, (no limiting, no compression or
expansion), ensuring the purest piano sound possible. The samples have no loops, they
have rich resonant pedal down samples, release- triggered soundboard resonance, and
an amazingly wide dynamic range. Listen to the rich world of overtones beautifully cap-
tured in these recordings.
It has 16 velocity groups based on 5 velocity recordings (PP, P, MF, F and FF) of pedal- up
samples, five velocity groups of pedal- down samples, and four velocity groups of relea-
se- triggered samples. This patch offers additional control of the release triggered sam-
ples via the modulation wheel. More modulation wheel attenuates the release samples,
while simultaneously lengthening the release time of the sustained sample. There is a
time delay on the release samples (as shown in the picture) that influences the release
sample start point depending on the time the key is kept depressed. You can experiment
with these settings to adjust this effect to your own taste. You can adjust the release of
the note on samples (to do so de- activate the EDIT ALL button and make sure you dont
change the release layer group).
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GRANDIOSO Pop/ Rock PianoYamaha C7 (Ambient)
The YAMAHA C7 is appearing on famous concert stages, international competitions and
prestigious music events throughout the concert world.
The Yamaha C Series grand piano is by far the most popular piano that is versatile
enough for pop, jazz and rock recording, yet is arguably expressive enough for success-
ful traditional and classical recordings. The 7- foot, 4- inch model is my favorite pop
piano, with a bright tone, strong overtones and a moderately strong bass. You come
across a lot of these pianos in recording studios around the world and you will find them
to be very consistent. A well- maintained Yamaha C7 almost always produces satisfying
recording and performing results.
The Piano Patches
AMBIENT C7 + sustain* Basic ambient patch. It uses 8 velocity layers with sustain
pedal up and 8 velocity layers with the sustain pedal down.
AMBIENT C7 + release * Same as parent patches but with release samples.
AMBIENT C7 * Wet patch which has both release samples and separate sustain
pedal up and down samples.
*modulation wheel controls release time
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LICENSE AGREEMENT
IMPORTANT! Read the license before using the product.
The content of this library is licensed, not sold, to you by Post Musical Instruments for
use in your own music, film, television or multi- media production. You may use these
sounds in any commercial or non- commercial recording without any additional licensing
fees. You may not use these recorded samples in a non- melodic, solo- ed context in a
musical recording or music library. Post Musical Instruments reserves any other rights
not expressly granted to you. You own the Compact Discs or DVD on which the PMI
sound samples are sold, but PMI retains ownership of all the sound samples. Unlawful
copying, lending, trading, duplication, reselling, hiring, uploading or downloading to a
database, server or network or any other form of distribution of the samples in this
product is strictly forbidden.
These samples are embedded with a digital watermark. The watermark will survive DA
and DA re- sampling, severe eq and fx- processing and remains traceable even in full
mixes. Any un- licensed use of these samples will be prosecuted.
Copyright
Post Musical Instruments CONSOLIDATED was created by Michiel Post.
Copyright 2004 by Post Musical Instruments BV, Rijnstraat 4, 1078 RA AMSTERDAM,
Netherlands. E- mail: info@postmusicalinstruments.com
Distribution
World- wide distribution by PMI and selected distributors. Check our website for details
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