Magnolia Studio Grand
A vintage Steinway grand, recorded in an intimate performance hall.
US$49
Hear Magnolia Studio Grand In Action
- Rhapsody in Blue Andrew Aversa
- Promise Akira Yamaoka (Arranged by DanFourts)
- Piano Sonata No. 30 Op 109 Mvmt. 2 Beethoven (Arranged by Michael Hoffmann)
- Guren no Yumiya (Attack On Titan) Linked Horizon (Arranged by Animenz and Jason Pai)
- Yellow Bloom Vae Song
- Cursed Shinshu Field Masami Ueda (Arranged by Tremendouz)
- Seaside Fantasies Jon R. Mohr
- The White Pearl Andreas Martin Wimmer
- Promise (Library Only) Akira Yamaoka (Arranged by DanFourts)
- Yellow Bloom (Library Only) Vae Song
- The White Pearl (Library Only) Andreas Martin Wimmer
Audio Demos
- Rhapsody in Blue Andrew Aversa
- Promise Akira Yamaoka (Arranged by DanFourts)
- Piano Sonata No. 30 Op 109 Mvmt. 2 Beethoven (Arranged by Michael Hoffmann)
- Guren no Yumiya (Attack On Titan) Linked Horizon (Arranged by Animenz and Jason Pai)
- Yellow Bloom Vae Song
- Cursed Shinshu Field Masami Ueda (Arranged by Tremendouz)
- Seaside Fantasies Jon R. Mohr
- The White Pearl Andreas Martin Wimmer
- Promise (Library Only) Akira Yamaoka (Arranged by DanFourts)
- Yellow Bloom (Library Only) Vae Song
- The White Pearl (Library Only) Andreas Martin Wimmer
Overview
A classic Steinway at an affordable price, Magnolia Studio Grand features a uniquely warm, textured tone, meticulously recorded in an intimate performance hall with unparalleled precision. From classical works to scoring, jazz, pop, and more, this Steinway is a staple for concert pianists to keep at home, and it’s about to become a staple of your composition work.
Product Info
Steinway Model L recorded in a concert hall
The beloved “living room grand” chosen as a home instrument by countless acclaimed pianists, recorded in a world-class concert hall with close and room mic perspectives.
Exhaustively sampled
4,800+ samples provided in 16 and 24-bit fidelity.
Deep per-note sampling
7 dynamic (velocity) layers per chromatically-sampled note, with Spectral Fusion dynamic morphing providing an additional 6 intermediate recorded layers.
Recorded with and without pedal
All samples recorded with pedal-on and pedal-off. Sostenuto and damper pedals included via scripting.
Beautiful tone captured in detail
Sustain lengths from 2 seconds (highest notes) to 20 seconds (lowest notes).
Realistic performance details
Chromatic key release and pedal noises with adjustable volume.
21 inspiring snapshots
From naturalistic “out-of-the-box” pop and classical setups to cinematic, emotional, lo-fi, and ambient tones.
Features
Elegant and powerful UI
Individual mic editing
Customizable key response
Special editing for each individual key
Alternate tuning support
Requirements
8GB of disk space
7200RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
8GB of RAM minimum
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments. 8GB is the required minimum for Kontakt Player 7. Magnolia uses no more than 1GB.
Kontakt Player 7.10.7+
This library will run in the FREE Kontakt Player.
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OS
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11 or 12 (latest update).
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12 (latest update)
Kontakt Requirements - Windows
Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit). Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher. Windows 10 strongly recommended.
Tutorials
Magnolia Studio Grand vs Camellia Concert Grand sound demonstration
Walkthrough & Demonstration
Featured Artists & Composers
Christopher Gordon
Ladies in Black, Mao’s Last Dancer, Salem’s Lot, Master and Commander
“Impact Soundworks’ range of guitars and fretted instruments sound amazing and are crafted and nuanced with expert detail. Intuitively set up to get straight to composing. And I have a real soft spot for the juicy, screaming Shreddage 3 Hydra!”
Lena Raine
Celeste, Chicory, Minecraft, Guild Wars 2, Deltarune
Instruments from ISW are a staple of my soundtrack work for games. Vocalisa has been a mainstay vocal aesthetic of nearly every game I’ve worked on including Celeste & Chicory: A Colorful Tale. Shreddage 3 has also given me the confidence to write some really fun guitar riffs & solos despite not being able to play a real one. I’ve started incorporating Tokyo Scoring Strings into the acoustic side of my scoring work, and can’t wait to try out more from ISW in the future!
Stewart Winter
(Co-founder, VideoHelper)
“I’m a keyboard player — I can’t even make a REAL guitar sound convincing. But Telos and Rosette are my go-to guitars because they sound incredible, sit well in a mix and are so easy to configure to my personal playing habits. I’m constantly discovering new ways to play them and they’ve saved my ass more times than I can count. And the pedal Steel is still my favorite library of its kind for Country, Folk and organic layering behind synths.”
The legendary Steinway Model L has been a staple of classical pianists for over a century. But every individual piano is as unique as a human voice, and we fell in love with this one the moment we heard it. This particular instrument has been lovingly, expertly maintained over the duration of its life, and we captured every detail with unparalleled precision. The combination of the instrument’s intimate nuance and the presence of the recording hall is unique and, we think, highly inspiring.
Magnolia Studio Grand, like Camellia Concert Grand, began life as an R&D project to test a new recording technique. When we heard the sound of what we had created, though, we felt we needed to put this in your hands as an affordable, beautiful, and truly playable instrument. We love the end result, and we hope you will, too.
To deliver the most consistent performance across all 88 keys, we used a human-supervised machine to press the piano keys at precise speeds, guaranteeing identical velocities at each dynamic level. From there, our exclusive SpectralFusion technology seamlessly blends between velocities for a new level of nuance and control. This allows us to avoid imperfection and mechanical limitations, resulting in a playground ready to be brought to life by your human creativity.
Originally from 1903, the Steinway Model L shocked professionals around the world with its rich, robust sound and quickly became known as the “living room grand.” Packing the warm, resonant tones of a Steinway into a smaller frame, it quickly became a beloved go-to home piano for concert pianists who needed the responsiveness and power of an artisanal instrument at home.
This classic was discontinued in 2005 and replaced with the Model O. But the Model L’s layered, powerful sound makes it a sought-after instrument even today. Most Model Ls were built in New York, and they are emblematic of Steinway’s “classical New York sound.”
Perfect for concert hall works, jazz sessions, pop, jazz, and more, this Steinway’s rich tone has made it a versatile, cross-genre powerhouse, and now that versatility is yours.