Bösendorfer Imperial by Vienna Symphonic Library

The Bösendorfer Concert Grand 290 Imperial represents the apex of the famed Austrian piano manufacturer’s precious heritage. Its extraordinary, orchestral sound is rich in expression and resonance with a warm tone, thanks to the enormous resonance board and the nine additional sub-bass notes. The instrument’s key range is extended downward to the low C – for a total range of eight octaves.

Bösendorfer Concert Grand 290 Imperial Features

• Full 8 octaves in the tonal range – 97 keys (with bass extension)
• The warm, orchestral sound, rich in depth and tone color
• Powerful bass
• Six pre-configured Main Presets: Concert, Intimate, Player, Pop, Ambience, Mighty
• Proprietary Vienna Synchron Pianos engine with adjustable sympathetic resonances, pedal noise, key noise and so much more
• Per-note EQ, volume, dynamic range and tuning
• Advanced Release Sample Technology
• Recorded at Stage A of Synchron Stage Vienna

Bösendorfer Concert Grand 290 Imperial Microphone Positions

With over 4,000 samples per key and almost 20,000 samples per microphone position, the Bösendorfer Imperial boasts breathtaking authenticity. In order to capture this marvelous instrument in one of the best acoustic environments on the planet, our recording engineers used multiple high-end microphone arrays, affording an abundance of options for creating your individual sound.

Pricing and Availability

Bösendorfer Concert Grand 290 Imperia is available now an an time limited Introductory Price for the Full Library or Standard Library Version.

Vienna Symphonic Library Released Synchron Pianos: Bösendorfer Upright

The beautiful Bösendorfer Grand Upright 130 includes the experience of nearly two centuries of grand piano making. Its pure and pristine piano sound was captured with all its beauty and character at Stage B of Synchron Stage Vienna.

The legendary pure and rich Bösendorfer sound is based on the Viennese tradition of piano making with its complex construction. Bösendorfer uses more than 80% naturally dried resonant spruce wood to build an instrument – more than any other manufacturer. When a note is played, the integrated spruce components become acoustically active, forming a complete resonating body similar in principle to a violin. Its precise mechanics offer optimum power transmission with maximum controllability. The carefully hand-spun bass strings – steel core strings with one or two layers of copper – also contribute to its warm and sonorous sound.

Microphones

Even if you’re not using a surround setup, you get more ambience variations and spatial depth out of the Full Library by adding the room and surround microphones’ signals to your stereo mix.

Synchron Pianos: Bösendorfer Upright Key Features

• Modern classic
• Clear and uninhibited sound
• Wide dynamic range, rich tone with a powerful bass
• Stellar clarity in each note
• Versatility in sound & timbre with 8 microphone positions
• Recorded at Stage B of Synchron Stage Vienna
• Advanced Release Sample Technology
• Pre-configured Main Presets: Concert, Intimate, Player, Pop, Ambience, Vintage

The SYNCHRON-ized Woodwinds!

VSL most modern segment of the Synchron Series is here: The SYNCHRON-ized Woodwinds! VSL completely remastered and re-edited the samples, optimized it for their new Synchron Player and added authentic placement in the Synchron Stage.

You will get production-ready sound out of the box, with different presets included. And you can disable the included reverb, in case you want to add your own reverb to the dry sound.

This collection brings twelve of our acclaimed and widely used solo woodwind instruments to Stage A of Synchron Stage Vienna. For creating this beautiful library, our large team of sound editors invested one year of intense work into re-creating a perfectly balanced and pristine-sounding sample database that lives up to the high standards of our SYNCHRON-ized libraries.

SYNCHRON-ized Woodwinds

• Completely re-mastered and re-edited sample database
• Optimized for our new Vienna Synchron Player
• Authentic placement in our Synchron Stage Vienna, one of the world’s best-sounding scoring stages
• Production-ready sound, out of the box
• Crossgrade prices for users of the corresponding VI Woodwinds Single Instruments and Collections, and SYNCHRON-ized Special Editions

Included Instruments

• Piccolo
• Flute 1
• Flute 2
• Oboe 1 (French)
• Oboe 2 (Vienna)
• English horn (French)
• Clarinet (Bb) 1
• Clarinet (Bb) 2
• Bass clarinet
• Bassoon 1
• Bassoon 2
• Contrabassoon

Availability and Pricing

Introduction price: 255€ instead of 345€. You will get a discount, depending on the VSL collections you already have. Go to the product page and make sure that you are logged in to see your upgrade price!