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Vienna 170 Launch Sale for Master Keys - $29 Pro - $10 Lite

bozmillar

bozmillar

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The Vienna 170 has just been released and there's an introductory sale to celebrate. You can get the Vienna 170 Pro for $29. It includes 5 microphone positions, plus some extra features in the plugin.

If you just need a simple no frills piano, you can get the Lite version for just $10. It gives you 1 microphone position and more limited FX.


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True story on how I came about sampling this piano​

I was traveling across states with my family and one of our stops was at my wife's aunt's house. Before we showed up, she told me that she was excited to show me her "vintage piano." Anyone who has spent enough time on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace knows "vintage piano" is rarely something to get excited about. But I was polite and smiled and told her how excited I was to see it and play it.

We walk in the house, and she shows me this. It's a fully restored vintage Bösendorfer. The serial number is 7,345, which suggests it was originally built in 1874. Needless to say, it was the best crow I've ever eaten. Ever since then, I've been obsessed with this piano, and I made it my mission to get in there and properly sample it. I finally had that opportunity, and here it is.

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The Sound​

The piano itself has great dynamics. It can do the soft thing and the loud thing without ever sounding like its playing out of its range. It has a very different sound from the Steinway's we've sampled. The best words I can think of to describe it are percussive, clean and articulate.

Here are a few audio examples to get a general feel for how this one sounds.


Technical Specs​

The Vienna 170 comes in 2 versions: Pro and Lite. It requires out proprietary piano plugin Master Keys. Master Keys is a free, light weight plugin that is designed at its core as a piano sampling beast. No, there is no Kontakt version available. We originally prototyped this in Kontakt, but there is a lot going on under the hood that Kontakt couldn't do, so we had to create our own piano sampling engine.

Pro ($29 Sale Price)​
Lite ($10 Sale Price)​
  • 5 Mic positions
  • Sustain + Release + Resonance + Pedal Samples
  • Sustain control
  • Each note sampled individually
  • ~8GB hard drive space required
  • 1 Mic Position
  • Sustain + Release + Resonance Samples
  • Every 3rd note sampled
  • Free trial available
  • ~45MB hard drive space required

Free Trial​

Despite its small size, the lite version actually sound almost indistinguishable from the pro version (I can tell the difference, but I know what I'm listening for). The sound of the lite version is close enough that I'm comfortable using it to provide a free trial. You can install a trial version of the Lite piano. Some of the FX are unavailable to use, and a couple of black notes are silent. It should be enough to let you know if it's worth getting the real thing.
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Sounds awesome! I must say this sounds beautiful. And I appreciate the pricing structure, very affordable piano that won't break the bank. Now I have a chance to add a Bosendorfer to my collection without having to shell out >$100
 
bozmillar said:
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  • ~6GB hard drive space required

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The Pro version only requires 0.62GB of space on the drive because the samples are in flac format.

A little tip for owners of Master Keys pianos:
If you, like me, have bought all (or some of?) the previous pianos, you should take a look at the homepage when logged in and be amazed at how high the discount is.
I can't remember exactly, but you may have to add the Vienna 170 to your shopping basket to see the reduced purchase price.
 
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Scalms said:
Sounds awesome! I must say this sounds beautiful. And I appreciate the pricing structure, very affordable piano that won't break the bank. Now I have a chance to add a Bosendorfer to my collection without having to shell out >$100
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Buy the complete bundle (3 grands & 2 uprights), it is very cheap. You won't be disappointed.
 
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Scalms said:
And I appreciate the pricing structure, very affordable piano that won't break the bank.
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I tried to price these in a way that would make it easy for anyone to get. Pricing stuff is a bit hard because there's this weird dynamic where if you price it too high, nobody can afford it, but if you price it too low, people won't even bother looking at it.

I'd like to think that it's a steal at this price. The lite version actually works incredibly well when you just need a no frills piano.

 
horowitz said:
Hmm, on Windows only 0.6GB. 🤔 :confused:

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It should be bigger than that. The Pro version has to store the samples uncompressed so that it can stream from the harddrive if it has to. The samples are too big to load completely into RAM, and transcoding live is hefty on the CPU.

The lite version stores the samples as flac because it can load them completely into RAM.

Edit: It looks like it didn't finish decompressing the samples. They should be .bdlsmp files, not bdlcmp files.
 
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bozmillar said:
It should be bigger than that. The Pro version has to store the samples uncompressed so that it can stream from the harddrive if it has to. The samples are too big to load completely into RAM, and transcoding live is hefty on the CPU.

The lite version stores the samples as flac because it can load them completely into RAM.

Edit: It looks like it didn't finish decompressing the samples. They should be .bdlsmp files, not bdlcmp files.
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I have just reinstalled and now everything is OK. Thanks also to Craig (@CGR), without his advice I would not have noticed the fault.

But then 8GB are needed rather than the specified 6GB. ;)

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As an owner of the rest of Master Keys, this is a no brainer for me. It's been my go-to piano plugin for the past year on almost everything. This one sounds great!
 
horowitz said:
I have just reinstalled and now everything is OK. Thanks also to Craig (@CGR), without his advice I would not have noticed the fault.

But then 8GB are needed rather than the specified 6GB. ;)

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Updated the original post to be accurate. Although now the pictures are huge.
 
horowitz said:
A little tip for owners of Master Keys pianos:
If you, like me, have bought all (or some of?) the previous pianos, you should take a look at the homepage when logged in and be amazed at how high the discount is.
I can't remember exactly, but you may have to add the Vienna 170 to your shopping basket to see the reduced purchase price.
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I don't see this. I have the two NY pianos. They don't appear in my orders but only in my downloads. I see a sale going on but the prices are the same logged in or not.
 
alessandrovle said:
I don't see this. I have the two NY pianos. They don't appear in my orders but only in my downloads. I see a sale going on but the prices are the same logged in or not.
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I don't know what the conditions for the discount are. I had all the Master Keys pianos (4) before buying the Vienna 170. On the screeshot you can see the price range of 9€-27€ for buyers in Europe. The discounted purchase price is only visible in the shopping basket.

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alessandrovle said:
I don't see this. I have the two NY pianos. They don't appear in my orders but only in my downloads. I see a sale going on but the prices are the same logged in or not.
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I'm in the same boat. I think it might be because we (?) bought them when they were sold on the main Boz store (rather than buying them from the new Master Keys site.)
 
Kiero said:
I'm in the same boat. I think it might be because we (?) bought them when they were sold on the main Boz store (rather than buying them from the new Master Keys site.)
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The pianos are also only listed in my download area, but I still got the discount. It probably depends on the number of pianos already purchased whether there is a discount or how much the discount is.

I already had the "New York L Bundle" and the "Upright Bundle" and only had to pay the additional charge for the new "All Pianos Bundle". I assume so. 🤔
 
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There's a discount if you own the "All Pianos Bundle." There isn't one for owning the NYL bundle. Basically, the All Pianos Bundle got bumped up in price because another piano was added, and so this discount matches the price bump.
 
I had the upright bundle in my Boz Master Keys account and the New York bundle in my Boz Digital account. I got Vienna 170 Pro for $10, so it appears that the pricing algorithm looks in both places to see what you already own.
 
.... soooo All Pianos Bundle ..... just incremental $40. versus Vienna 170 Pro @ $29. 😲
 
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