Description

The Vintage Keyboard Collection for the Yamaha Montage and MODX was designed to complement the great onboard sounds of the Yamaha keyboards. The collection includes no less than SEVEN must-have classic electromechanical keyboards.  The instruments were sampled directly from their outputs with no effect coloration, designed to give the player a more neutral sound—like when you first plug the keyboard into an amp.

With the exception of the CP70b, all instruments include release samples created by capturing the sound from the time key is lifted to when the damper is fully engaged. It is a continuation of the sustained sound. The damper can cause a slight change in pitch, in addition to deadening the sound. This can be a critical component when trying to make these recreations sound as authentic as possible. Release samples are different than a release noise which is a mechanical sound of the key and damper. 

In order to shrink the size of the library, the looping of some longer samples was necessary.  In those instances, the loops were placed deeply in the decay of the sample so as to preserve the original envelope and make the hearing of any loop artifacts nearly impossible.

The entire collection requires 550MB of flash storage.  It was designed to load into the Yamaha MODX with the Bosendorfer piano installed.