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$45.00
Earn 105
A piano, Up close
Note: This product is compatible with Kontakt Full 7.6.1 and above
$45.00
Earn 105
A piano, Up close
Note: This product is compatible with Kontakt Full 7.6.1 and above
Piano macro lets you blend and independently pan two simultaneous signals: "contact" controls the contact microphone's signal, while "distance" lets you balance this with a more rounded and traditional dynamic mic. Run this through some easy-access effects processing, and that's it!
No menu-diving; no analysis paralysis; all inspiration.
It all started when I decided to make an album using nothing but contact microphones. They enable a totally unique form of listening, and I soon became obsessed. All of a sudden everything is an instrument: water, cans, paper, and everything in between.
But people overlook "real" instruments through contact microphones. You can't get any closer to an instrument than actually touching it, and so you really can't get any more intimate either. All of the microscopic sounds of materials and mechanics and movement are suddenly revealed. It is totally transformative.
Long after the album was finished, I never forgot the particularly special sound of a piano through a contact microphone. And so, many months later on a rainy December evening, I sat at the piano - a beautiful, dusty knight upright which used to sit in the hall of my primary school - and begun to sample note after plaintive note through the delicate, all-hearing ear of my contact microphone.
Realising I was no longer restricted to using exclusively contact microphones, I decided to supplement closeness with distance. A dynamic microphone supports the contact microphone, balancing its magnification with a more balanced, rounded sound.
