这是一个偏实验性钢琴音源 / 非主流音色采样库的产品介绍。我给你翻译成更自然、适合音源产品页面的中文:

神秘钢琴(Mystic Piano)

这是我们最新推出的“珍藏品”系列乐器与工具,延续了这一系列一贯的理念:用那些游离于主流之外、独特而另类的声音,为你和你的听众带来灵感。

超越寻常的钢琴体验——一架与众不同的钢琴,以及一把弯曲的橡胶勺。

所谓“异世界般”的声音,往往需要依靠各种后期处理和音频技巧才能实现。但这一次,我们反其道而行之:完全不依赖插件处理或后期魔法,而是通过“演奏设计(Performance-Design)”本身,打造出一架独特且真正可以演奏的钢琴。

最初,这个项目只是一个简单的“手掌闷音(Palm Muted)”实验——将手放在琴弦上,使琴弦失去正常的共鸣,从而产生一种沉闷、厚重、带有敲击感的钢琴声音。

随后,在 Castlesound Studios 进行了一整周的实验,我们逐渐将钢琴中不同的共振元素拆解、重组,最终创造出一件完全重新构想的乐器。它的声音充满意外,也充满各种令人惊喜的可能性。

本音源的制作人与演奏者 Christian Henson 曾问自己:

“如果这架钢琴是由 Caractacus Potts 亲手从零开始制造出来的,它会是什么声音?”

Caractacus Potts 是 Ian Fleming 小说及电影《Chitty Chitty Bang Bang(飞天万能车)》中的发明家父亲。

最终,我们不仅创造出了这种独特的声音,还让你能够分别控制这些不同的声音组成部分——我们称之为 Partials(部分音色元素)。

你可以调整并保存自己喜欢的音色比例,建立一套固定的音色配置;也可以在演奏和录音过程中实时调整这些元素,为音乐增添不同的声音色彩。

神秘钢琴的 5 个核心声音元素

这五个元素都可以进行完全独立的平衡控制:

  • 手掌闷音(Muted Palms)
    用手掌压住琴弦,使钢琴产生沉闷、短促、带有撞击感的声音。
  • 拨奏元素(Plucked Elements)
    根据触发的力度层(Dynamic Layer),会组合使用不同的拨奏方式,包括:

    • 手指
    • 橡胶勺
    • 吉他拨片
  • 独立延音(Isolated Sustains)
    包含八度泛音(Octave Harmonics)以及**关闭制音器(Damper-Off)**等声音。
  • 手指震音(Fingered Tremolando)
    一种非常罕见的手指震音演奏方式,并且会根据力度层逐渐构建出不同的演奏层次。
  • 撞击式释放音(Clunking Release Triggers)
    特别设计的释放触发音,用来进一步强化这种类似 Caractacus Potts 亲手打造的、古怪而富有机械感的声音特质。

最后,我们还加入了这种**“咔嗒 / 碰撞式”的释放触发音**,进一步突出这件独特声音发明所具有的 Caractacus Potts 式机械、手工和实验感。

整个音源均采用大量 Round Robin(循环采样)、多个**力度层(Dynamic Layers)进行录制,同时还专门制作了一整套用于模拟钢琴踏板踩下后的共振(Pedal-Down Resonance)**的采样。

换句话说,这不是一架普通的“钢琴采样音源”,而是把钢琴的琴弦、闷音、拨奏、泛音、震音、释放噪声以及踏板共振全部拆开,再重新组合成一件可以演奏的实验性乐器。

The latest in our esoteric “collectables” range of instruments and tools to inspire you and your listeners with sounds that sit outside the mainstream. Transcend the ordinary with a piano like no other (and bring your bendy rubber spoon).

Other-worldly so often results in resorting to all sorts of processing and trickery. For this release we have kept the trickery firmly out of the box to create a unique and playable take on the piano through “performance-design”. What started out as a simple “palm muted” experiment (where a hand is placed on a string to mute it into a dull thudding piano sound). Into a week’s worth of experimentation at Castlesound studios ultimately deconstructing and reconstructing the different resonating elements of a piano into a newly imagined instrument that is full of surprises.

Christian Henson the producer and performer of this library asked himself “what would a piano sound like if it was built by hand from scratch by Caractacus Potts?” (the inventor father from Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang). What we have delivered also ultimately gives you control of those different elements (or partials as we call them) to set and forget your preferred timbral profile or indeed use to colour your performance and recordings in real-time.

The 5 key elements (of which you have total balance control) of the mystic piano are muted palms, a combination of plucked elements (depending on which dynamic layer is being triggered); fingers, rubber spoon, guitar plectrum. Isolated sustains including octave harmonics and damper-off. A rare fingered tremolando which builds up performance layers depending on dynamic layer.

Finally with clunking release triggers to accentuate that Caractacus Potts nature of the audio invention we have created. Everything is recorded with numerous round robins, dynamic layers and a fully dedicated set of samples for the pedal down resonance of the piano.

 

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