Propellerhead Software announce Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill

[sgtpepper]

Propellerhead Software & Abbey Road Studios announce the Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill
http://www.propellerheads.se/abbeyroad/

http://www.propellerheads.se/products/refills/ark/dsp_frameset.cfm

We are happy to announce the Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill. This ReFill
is the result of a partnership between Abbey Road Studios and
Propellerheads Software. It brings the sound of this legendary
recording studio into your Reason rack. Recorded on location using
Abbey Road's recording rooms and vintage equpiment, this ReFill gives
you access to seven time-honored Abbey Road instruments - these are
the keyboards heard on all those immortal Abbey Road recordings.

Recorded using Propellerhead Software's hypersampling technique,
these instruments have been faithfully reproduced using a wide range
of carfully selected microphones and pre-amps. With a hypersampled
instrument, you are free to pick the combination of mics that fit
your sound.


Contents:
- Steinway Upright - the Mrs. Mills piano
- Challen Studio Piano
- Hammond RT-3
- Mannborg Harmonium
- Schiedmayer Celeste
- Mellotron M400
- Premier Tubular Bells

- Preset patches
Combinator patches for various mic blends.

- Style patches
Processed combinator patches.

- Template patches
Empty, pre-wired user patches.

- 40-page full color booklet
Enclosed in the Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill box is Guide to Abbey
Road Keyboards, a 40-page. full color booklet by author by Mark Vail.
Jam-packed with full color pictures and descriptive session diagrams,
this book gives you in-depth info on the featured instruments and the
Abbey Road technology used to record them.

The ReFill ships on two DVD disks with both 16-bit and 24-bit versions.


The Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill will be available June 13th from the
PropShop and from music retailers world-wide. The price is USD229 /
EUR199.
For more info, go to http://www.propellerheads.se/abbeyroad/

 

[Cheez]

Pricing not too bad for the number of instruments in the package. Maybe exciting for Reason users.

It's does sounds a little over-rated. Using Abbey Road Studios as a marketing point is clever, but good samples is more than the studio and the recording equipment. It's the expertise and experience in sampling that particular instrument.

However, Propellerheads very cleverly asked help from Worra (who owns Sampletekk). Worra is a long-time guru for piano sampling when Gigastudio first came out (when it was first called Gigasampler). So I guess the quality should be around that of Worra's samples, which will be OK (I have 3 of his piano sample libraries). I can't seem to find any info on their site on the sampling process (samples/note, release samples etc).