Eine weitere Ausgabe in der Reihe “Edition Beurmann”. Die aus Deutschland stammende Firma veröffentlicht eine weitere harpsichord-Samplebibliothek: Das grüne 1628-gebaute Ruckers harpsichord aus der Beurmann-Kolektion. Wir wissen nicht wie es klingt, aber auf jedenfall sieht es heisssss aus!

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The Dutch Harpsichord library offers an original harpsichord by Andreas Ruckers Sr. built in 1628. Due to its two manuals and many registers, the Ruckers harpsichord offers lots of unqiue sounds, sampled with 6 different register combinations, including the upper 8′, lower 8′ (principal 8′), tutti, both 8′ together, the 4′ register as well as the lute stop.

Like all harpsichords, the Ruckers is not touch-sensitive. However, even if the differences are minuscule, not any given note will sound exactly the same due to different resonances of body and strings.

Until now, many keyboards and samplers represented harpsichords by always triggering off the exact same digital sample, leaving a cold and sterile sounding impression.

In order to improve upon previous recreations and to pay tribute to the liveliness and depth of this antique instrument, every sampled register was captured with up to 8 variations of each note.

Furthermore, the sample library contains an essay in German from Professor Andreas E. Beurmann himself, explaining both the historical and musical background of the instrument.

Technisches…

The sample library contains nearly 3700 single samples.

Recorded in the great sounding rooms of the Hasselburg estate, active tube-driven Royer® R-122V ribbon microphones as well as vintage Neumann™ TLM-170® microphones were used in conjunction with Crane Song™ Flamingo® preamps and Universal Audio™ 2192® digital converters recorded in 192 khz/24 bits resolution.

The Dutch Harpsichord library available in 44.1/48 khz, 96 khz and 192 khz resolution, starting at 139.95 US $. The sounds can be purchased directly on the realsamples website.

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