A Celesta For Kontakt

US Chocolate Audio releases Celestial 12/04/19

Chocolate Audio tells us that Celestial is a sampled celesta done right. They say that, balanced and smooth, it will fit into any composition nicely with little need for intervention in mix. This particular celesta is a very old Mustel made in Paris and properly maintained and restored by skilled technicians in Milano.

Features

0.5 GB (lossless compressed) library size, 449 samples
4 layered channels: Spot mics with AKG C414EB, Decca mics with AKG C451E-CK22 and 2 additional sound-designed options, Hyped and Diffuse
sustaining sounds, chromatically sampled
release trails, chromatically sampled
independently controllable sustain-pedal noise
sampled with Millennia preamps fed direct into Apogee converters
all of the details of the celesta recreated through the use of our custom advanced scripting
recorded at 24 bit / 96 KHz, released at 24 bit / 44.1 KHz
easy-to-use mixer for extreme sound-mangling

Kontakt engine features

custom User Interface
velocity curve management
fine-tuned three-band EQ for each channel
many under the hood techniques to make the instrument true to the original (release trails attenuation, intelligent release and pedal action...)
master realism control and specific control over release trails, key off, resonances and pedal noise levels
envelope controls
101 custom, high quality IR reverbs
22 (+ 22) compressor + tape presets
17 factory presets + user-savable presets
works as stand-alone, AAX, RTAS, AU and VST for Mac and PC