1911 Steinway Model A · VST3 · AU
Every instrument has an origin.
Built in 1911. Still here. We recorded it.
Not a recreation. Not a simulation. The instrument as it exists today — recorded where it stands.
The instrument
Recorded where the instrument lives. Not a stage, not a studio. The response of hammers worn by more than a century of playing, the resonance of a body that has been played and settled over generations.
The recording
Six velocity layers. Round-robin alternation. ORTF mic pair inside the open lid. The mechanical character of this specific piano — its worn hammers, its settled body — preserved exactly as it sounds today.
Included IR preset
Parlor GhostVerb
What it is
Every room has an acoustic character — the way sound reflects, absorbs, and decays in that specific space. Parlor GhostVerb is a recording of that character, captured in the room where this piano currently lives. Load it, and the room comes with the instrument.
How it was made
Two microphones. Four passes. One afternoon. Father and son.
What you hear
Close walls. The natural deadening of a room not built for sound. Early reflections from furniture, walls, the piano's own body — then a short, clean tail. The instrument sounds placed, not suspended. It sounds like it lives here, because it does.
1911 Steinway Model A
VST3 · AU · Standalone · Mac & Windows