TWO LEGENDARY STEINWAY PIANOS IN ONE EXCLUSIVE PACKAGE
Thor is a dynamic combination of two legendary Steinway Grand Pianos combined into one amazing and affordable price. This gives musicians of all skill levels more freedom to create beautiful music and unmatched artistry all their own.
HOROWITZ STEINWAY
The piano the legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz loved most, this Steinway D boasts a rich sound and dynamic, full resonance performance that can last more than two minutes. It’s a breathtaking experience you’ll never forget!
HAMBURG LEGEND
Made in Hamburg, Germany, this Steinway D features a uniquely positioning mic that captures mellow sounds, a more powerful bass, and a smooth singing tone across mids and highs; all to create a stronger emotional connection.
HD VELOCITY LAYER 3 WITH HDR (HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE) TECHNOLOGY
The dynamic of a piano is the most decisive aspects of its sound quality. Around 10 years ago, Sound Magic had already applied a True Piano Dynamic system which can represent piano dynamic in the most efficient way. And in years, we keep improving the performance. A True Piano Dynamic means the piano will have different dynamics from low notes to high notes; usually, high notes will have more dynamic range. Now, our True Piano dynamic system enables every note to have its unique dynamic range, and it can be fully controlled by knobs.
Thor is powered by Hybrid Modeling technology and HD Velocity Layer 3 with HDR (High Dynamic Range) technology (support up to 65,536 velocity layers) providing a natural boost to expressive power that can be felt with every strike of the keys. Along with the new Neo Piano engine, which achieves 400 times more variations than a traditional sample engine, every note played is unique, creates vivid sound representation, and strikes a rich, accurate tone even with small movement. In essence, it’s an instrument with a musical soul instead of a machine feel. What is more, in this new version we allow you to experience this in a system which only supports 127 velocity layers by applying HDR. This makes this technology can be used without any cost upgrading your MIDI system.
SPECIALLY DESIGNED STACCATO MODE
When you play a strong staccato on the piano, you will notice that the sound in its release phase is different from the usual sound. This difference adds extra variety to the final sound of the piano – it contributes to the vividness or expressiveness of the piano sound.
To accurately reproduce this staccato sound, we added a specially designed staccato mode that could achieve it in a very simple way.
ADD SEVERAL RESONANCES TO THE BEAUTIFUL SOUND
Resonances play an important role in a piano’s sound. It adds extra beauty to the overall sound. Reality dictates that every grand piano’s sizeable soundboard reflects sound that resonates in conjunction with the wooden body of the instrument itself. Indeed, it is this continuous process that makes every note played sound so unique.
Ultimately, in order to simulate this behavior, Sound Magic captured multi-angled IRs (Impulse Responses) from the soundboard, and then used modelling technology to convert those IRs into Multi-Dimensional Resonance algorithms. The result? An amazingly true-to-life concert hall sound readily available at anyone’s fingertips!
Sympathetic Resonance happens when Harmonics are heard in keys related to keys that are struck. It is an interaction between different strings and adds extra color to every note’s sound. It makes them sound unique so that the audience can enjoy listening.
Sustain Resonance and String Resonance can be heard when sustain pedals are pressed. Although they are subtle sometimes, as a part of Piano resonance, Our Neo Piano Engine has the ability to represent different resonances in the right way, and provide controls on their amount and behavior.
METICULOUS DAMPER CONTROLS
Neo Piano Engine also modelled the behavior of the damper, which controls when the sound should stop. With damper controls, musicians can choose whether it is a newly built piano, or a piano that’s 20 years old. Also, it is interesting that users can try to change the material of the damper from soft to hard; they can experience the differences in sound.
PRODUCT FEATURES
Offering authentic sample sounds with the playability of a modeled piano, hybrid modeling technology embodies over 260 GB samples.
Style Designer helps set the piano’s musical style with a simple knob, be it pop, jazz, rock, classical or soft, and change internal parametric.
Provides up to 12 microphone perspectives.
HD Velocity Layers can express up to 65,536 velocity layers and around 1000 layers have an audible difference.
DFD/RAM system enables users to relocate resources and ensure the best performance under every individual project.
Scala Tuning System allows users to experiment with different tunings and choose from more than 10,000 tunings.
The Multi-Dimensional Resonance engine perfect represent different resonance inside a piano.
Adjustable sympathetic resonances.
Artificial Intelligence Tools will check the response of your keyboard and pedals automatically to find your ideal velocity response curve in seconds.
Differnt GUI mode for standard resolution and 4K resolution
EXPAND YOUR MUSICAL CAPABILITIES WITH A DYNAMIC PIANO ENGINE SOFTWARE
This is your opportunity to create deeper, richer Steinway sounds just like the original pianos themselves. Get our Thor today and truly enhance your ability to create beautiful, unforgettable sounds.
32Bit/64Bit VST plugins on Windows system Requirements:
OS: Windows XP or Above (Reported can run under Windows 98 and Windows 2000 system, but not officially tested. 64Bit VST requires at least Windows 7 system. )
