The piano we have chosen for this sample set is the Futura II, made by Nordiska Pianofabriken (Vetlanda, Sweden, in 1974)

The complete CD-ROM contains 713 individual 24 bit Mono WAV samples. 4 programs each for HALion 1.*, HALion 2 and 2 programs for NI Kontakt 1.5

The goal behind the Nordic Upright Piano is to capture the ring and dynamics of a good essential Swedish piano. This is a sampled piano that gives you freedom to place it in any ambient environment of your choice.

The instrument was sampled in mono and the position of the close positioned microphone was changed per each octave. Then the piano was “re-built” in the digital domain by giving each string it’s own position in the stereo field. The result is a dry piano that gives you the flexibility to place it in any sonic environment you like.

The recording was supervised by an authorized concert piano technician to secure that it was properly tuned.

Nordic Upright piano is sampled in 5 velocity layers at most, with 5 layers for note and 5 for release samples and seamlessly looped to save disk space in typical Precisionsound style.

Program descriptions:

NordicUpright Mono (all mono samples panned at [c])
NordicUpright Stereo (all mono samples panned at individual positions in the
stereo field)
NordicUpright Mono NR (all mono samples panned at [c] no release samples)
NordicUpright Stereo NR (all mono samples panned at individual positions in the stereo field, no release samples)

UPDATED! Now also in Sfz (16 bit) format.