![]() ![]() Native Instruments Alicia Keys features include: Another amazing and innovative product created at The Oven, and another dimension of the amazing Alicia Keys. Now people all over the world will be able to create new music with Keys’ authentic sounds. Alicia’s Keys.ĭeveloping a virtual piano, sampled from her own playing on the Yamaha C3 Neo inside The Oven, Keys again expands her influence. At the center of The Oven’s live room, and often of Keys’ sound, is the Yamaha C3 Neo grand piano. She and engineer Ann Mincieli dig deep to sample, warp and reinvent the sounds they cull and create from scratch, developing a completely unique sonic palette to suit her vision. Experimenting with sound is an essential piece of Keys’ pre-production process, where her vision for a record begins to crystallize. The Oven is abundantly equipped with vintage and modern keyboards, samplers, guitars, amps and state-of-the-art recording and production equipment. Inspired by Motown, Alicia’s productions start and finish under one roof, and she works hands-on through every step of the process all the way to mastering. In fact I prefer this to the real Steinway recordings we did.At the Oven, Alicia has revived a lost art in the way she produces records. You can transpose, of course, and I recommend you do that in Logic Pro - not inside the plug-in, which can cause problems with the layers being offset.Īlicia's Keys easily beats any other piano plug-in I have and have used. I need more keys to enjoy the full range, especially in the lows. Except that I now feel my 61 keys MIDI keyboard is too small. I can't think of anything really bad to say. ![]() In other words: it's got a bit of personality. This means that some keys sound slightly different than others at the same velocity. It's not an idealized piano - it's Alicia's piano. The final thing I noticed is both a strong and a weak point (for some). This is another issue with most piano samples. The second thing was the natural sound of playing at maximum velocity, nothing metallic or harsh about it, but it's not muffled either. One of the first things I noticed is the natural openness and complete lack of ugly lower mid resonance build-up that so many piano recordings suffer from. Obviously this depends on your speakers' capabilities but it sounds extremely realistic.Ĭomparing this to the stock Logic grand piano samples is like comparing sex with someone you love to beating the monkey in the shower. It's like having a real piano in front of you. I preferred to add some low microphone noise, which I activated in the Noise menu and set to +2 dB. This subtly changes the sound of the attack, too. ![]() I changed the finger latency (in the Keys menu) from the default 50% to 0%. Probably my only point of critique with the plug-in: I quickly found that even using a Logic Pro/sound card buffer of 128, I preferred even less latency when playing. You also have control over some of the more subtle aspects such as finger attack latency, sympathetic resonance and microphone noise. The very faint "tail" is in fact the tapering of the strings. When using the 01 Dry setting there's no additional ambience added. Using scripts and built-in convolution processing you have full control over various aspects of the piano such as room sound and reverb, stereo image, and artist/audience perspective. You register your product online via the activation button in the plug-in, and then type in your serial number found on the back of the DVD jewelbox.īe aware that the activation window may be hidden behind the Logic Pro window after you've opened it, so look for it in the dock.Īfter activating the product you should quit and restart Logic Pro or you will be running in demo mode.Īlicia's Keys opens as an instrument in the Kontakt player, found in the Libraries pane. The free Kontakt 4 player can also be downloaded from the website (which I did).Ģ0 minutes of installation time and 5 minutes spent on the license activation.įirst you install the Kontakt 4 player, then the samples. One DVD containing 7 Gb of packed samples.One DVD containing the Kontakt 4 player needed to play the samples.A very nice looking box with atmospheric photos.Here's my first hour of experience with Alicia's Keys ![]()
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