Digital Grand Essentials

A masterful grand piano, digitized at the world-class level – the Digital Grand has set new standards since its introduction in 2016. The Essentials library of the C. Bechstein Digital Grand for KONTAKT sets quality standards in the entry-level segment on Mac & PC.

While the “large” version of the Digital Grand delights the hearts of piano makers and sound engineers around the world by providing access to a host of signal processing details with a library of around 80GB, the new Essentials version scores with an otherwise unusual compactness …

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New Essentials version focussing on the joy of playing and portability

The Digital Grand Essentials unites the sound of several microphones used when recording in the Berlin Teldex studios and enables the player to set a selection of important sound parameters in just a few simple steps.

Thus, the Digital Grand Essentials with storage requirements of less than 2.5 gigabytes is now easy to transport on notebooks – and can even be played directly from the RAM by most systems! Nonetheless, the familiar and distinctive basic sound for C. Bechstein rings from the Digital Grand, a differentiated sound colour range and above all with musically inspiring intonation.

“The Digital Grand Essentials is unique in every way: its sound is a ‘best-of’ of the three microphone signals we captured in the Teldex. And the new user interface creates an – in our view optimal – balance between functionality and playfulness.”

The Digital Grand Essentials is a library for Native Instruments’ free KONTAKT Player and it’s available as a download for EUR 129, -. A later upgrade to the Digital Grand is possible.

Buy the Digital Grand Essentials

Digital Grand Essentials & Digital Grand in comparison

	Digital Grand Essentials	Digital Grand
Size of the sample library	2,5 GB	80 GB (25 GB compressed lossless)
Number of samples	1.215	11.750
Microphone positions	1 (Stereo-mix from 3+1 signals)	3+1: M/S front microphone, from the side und from above, plus Aura
Dynamic levels (Layers)	10	26
Bit Depth & Sample Rate	16 Bit / 44.1 kHz (“CD quality”)	24 Bit /48 kHz (“studio quality”)
RAM usage with disk streaming (DFD) / entirely in RAM	ca. 160 MB / ca. 2.5 GB	ca. 860 MB / –
Recommended system performance	Computer with i5 processor (or equivalent) 8GB of memory	Computer with i7 processor (or equivalent) 16GB of memory Solid State Disk (SSD)
Particularities	Very easy to use ( “Quick Load & Play”) Moderate system requirements	Extensive possibilities in sound design
	EUR 129,- Later purchase of the Digital Grand (upgrade): EUR 120,-	EUR 249,- Digital Grand Essentials is included, too

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