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  • Free Preset for SE1 Bösendorfer

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    Just got Synchronized Special Edition Vol I today in the sale, haven't gone through it entirely yet. But I got zero information about the Bösendorfer patch that's included alongside the Hamburg D before I bought, and was interested what it was like.

    The default Bosey patch is purely for orchestration and you can barely hear the thing because of the impulse they put on it. But I took that off and fiddled with it for an hour, going back and forth with the Hamburg, until I got it more or less comparable to the Hamburg tonally. Of course it is nowhere near as deep sampled and there's really only the ff layer included, but it does work pretty well.

    Well enough I decided to upload my patch here for people to enjoy. Or go further than I did with it. The trebles are thinner than the Hamburg, the curves are a touch different still, but it may be more or less interchangeable if you find yourself wanting to switch to the other grand.

    Now what I would like to do, but don't know how it would be done in Synchron Player, is take the free Soft Imperial patch they sent out and make it the p/mp layer of this Bosey patch, using velocity crossfade. The way they do pedal switching on the SE1 Bosey makes that seem unnecessarily difficult. Maybe one of you is sharp enough on Synchron Player to explain how it would be done all inside one preset. I could do it externally with some MIDI scripting I suppose, or just layer it on on the same MIDI channel and have it reduce volume with velocity.

    Anyway have fun, hopefully this forum lets me attach the preset, it says it can at least.

    SE1Bosendorfer.vsynpreset.zip-1696284249458-xwic5.zip

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    OK I figured out how to velocity switch the HELLO! Free Soft Imperial with the SE1 Bösendorfer. Not sure I like it this way because it really is using the una corda pedal suddenly on a soft note. But it's not bad. I suppose you could hook it to a soft pedal rather than velocity.

    Edit: OK much better...if I use the stack button on the switching group it does more of a crossfade, and I tweaked the tone a touch. Sounds somewhat legit now...I don't have the full Bosey version to compare to.

    I hope it works on other people's installations. Just unzip and drag into the VSL/Synchron Player/Presets folder in your Documents folder or wherever these presets are stored for you, and you'll see it in the user presets down at the bottom of the menu. I'm sure the full version of the Bosey is worth it but it's nice to get a bonus grand piano just with SE1, in addition to the excellent Hamburg D. Have fun.

    SE1BoseyU002BSoftImperial.vsynpreset.zip-1696284249630-nuun8.zip