RealSamples English Spinet MULTiFORMAT

There is barely another instrument to combine both zeitgeist and timelessness in the way a spinet does: Despite being around for centuries already, its sound is still relevant in many musical territories, while at the same time being inextricably connected to the musical works of its time.

The brilliant timbre comprises lots of majestic warmth and elegance as well - something often underestimated due to cold and sterile sounding spinet simulations of current keyboards and samplers. The English Spinet library features an instrument built by Thomas Hitchcock in London in 1718.

Hitchcocks instruments are widely known as the best-sounding spinets ever built and pointed the way ahead for all spinets to come. Only about 36 of his masterpieces are preserved to this day. This unique instrument in the collection of Andreas Beurmann still remains in excellent condition and is fully playable despite its age. It is now available for the first time for your sampler within the English Spinet library, presented in its original Valotti tuning at 403 Hz.

Like harpsichords, spinets are not touch-sensitive in the sense of a piano. However, even if the differences are minuscule, not any given note will sound exactly the same due to different resonances of body and strings. Until now, many keyboards and samplers represented spinets by always triggering off the exact same digital sample, leaving said sterile sounding impression. In order to improve upon previous recreations and to pay tribute to the liveliness and depth of this historical instrument, we captured 8 variations of each note.

Details:
* 8 different samples of each note
* 4 different release sounds of each note
* ready to play HAlion/Kontakt2/EXS24 or GigaStudio3 presets
* wave format (except GigaStudio version)
* no mastering applied
* recorded in 192 khz/24 bits resolution and downsampled