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| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 30 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
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Key Features
The Spitfire Audio BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano Professional is an incredibly realistic and flexible grand piano virtual instrument. Perfect for composers, producers, and musicians seeking versatile, realistic piano sounds. The Professional Edition delivers an incredibly detailed recreation of a Steinway Model D grand piano, recorded at the legendary Maida Vale Studios. With 15 microphone signals and two custom mixes, it offers endless options to craft your ideal piano sound, whether for orchestral, cinematic, or solo performances. Its compatibility with the BBCSO plugin makes it easy to integrate into your existing orchestral compositions, while Spitfire's mode-switching technology ensures seamless collaboration with other BBCSO users.
Highly dynamic and realistic, The BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano Professional includes 4 round robins and 6 dynamic layers, providing a highly expressive and varied performance that feels natural. Advanced controls such as reverb, tightness, and hammers & pedal volume allow you to tailor the piano’s tone and responsiveness. Velocity curves ensure every key press responds accurately, making the instrument feel incredibly dynamic and responsive to your playing style.
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The BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano Professional captures the pristine, live sound of a Steinway Model D grand piano, recorded at Maida Vale Studios by concert pianist, Elizabeth Burley. Known for hosting iconic performances by The Beatles, Hendrix, and countless others, this studio setting ensures unparalleled realism and depth in every note. With expertly positioned microphones, the piano fits perfectly with orchestral arrangements or as a standalone instrument, making it a versatile tool for any genre.
The Professional edition takes this realism further with its 15 signal options, allowing you to craft the perfect mix for your needs, whether you’re composing for a film score or creating a classical piano piece.
This edition is designed for professionals looking for maximum versatility. With 15 microphone signals, you can create custom mixes to suit any musical project. In addition to customisable microphone signals, there are two pre-mixed sounds to choose from. Mix One offers a traditional orchestral piano sound, while Mix Two provides a wider, cinematic mix ideal for film scores. These expertly curated mixes are ready to use straight out of the box, giving you high-quality sound with minimal effort.
For even more control, features like reverb, tightness, and hammer volume adjustments allow you to fine-tune your performance, adding the realism of an authentic grand piano to your compositions.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano Professional is ideal for musicians of all levels, offering a path for growth as your skills evolve. Spitfire’s mode-switching technology lets you switch between different editions of the BBCSO library with ease, making it simple to collaborate with others, no matter which version they have. This flexibility is perfect for remote work or quick mock-ups, allowing you to start a piece in one mode and finish it in another, seamlessly.
The technology behind this mode switching also makes sharing projects more efficient, letting you collaborate with fellow composers while maintaining the integrity of your original work.
The piano integrates seamlessly with the BBCSO plugin, designed to offer a streamlined experience when composing for piano and orchestra. Most of the microphone signals are recorded in the same configuration as the full BBCSO library, ensuring perfect compatibility and blending with other instruments, whilst the close mic options provide a more intimate sound, bringing out the full nuance of your performance.
Spitfire Audio’s BBCSO Piano Professional is housed in the award-winning BBCSO plugin, known for its intuitive design. Created by composers, for composers, the plugin is user-friendly and quick to master, allowing you to focus on your music rather than technicalities. Whether you’re using VST, AU, AAX, or NKS formats, the plugin ensures smooth integration into any workflow. The interface is designed to inspire creativity, featuring modern, clean visuals that complement the top-tier sound quality offered by the BBCSO Piano.
With mode-switching technology, you can easily transition between the Professional, Core, and Discover editions of BBCSO Piano, enabling you to start composing with one version and finish in another without losing any detail. This feature is especially useful for collaboration, allowing you to send projects to others who may be working with different setups. Their contributions will align perfectly with your original composition, ensuring a seamless creative process.
Mode switching is a game-changer for composers working in different environments or with limited resources, offering a flexible way to create world-class music.
Maida Vale Studios has been the BBC recording destination for countless legendary artists and orchestras since 1934. The BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano Professional captures this rich history, recorded in Studio One, the same place where The Beatles, Bowie, and many others made music history. The Steinway Model D was placed in a concerto position, ensuring the best sound possible for orchestral and solo performances.
The combination of Maida Vale’s unique acoustics and state-of-the-art recording technology brings depth and authenticity to your compositions that’s hard to replicate elsewhere.
With 15 microphone signals to choose from, the BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano Professional gives you total control over your sound. Mix One offers a traditional orchestral piano mix, perfect for concert music, while Mix Two provides a more vibrant, cinematic sound that’s ideal for film and TV scoring. Both mixes are ready to use with a single click, offering fast, high-quality results.
Whether you’re crafting delicate solo pieces or integrating the piano into larger orchestral arrangements, the flexibility and precision of these signals ensure you get the exact sound you need every time.
"Like all my favourite Spitfire products, it just sounds so good from the first note you play! I always like to personalise the sounds I use so the extra control and mic positions in BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano Professional go a long way to making this possible." - Segun Akinola (Doctor Who, 9/11: Inside the President's War Room)
"Well, I think I’ve found my new go-to piano! It's gorgeous, warm, and cinematic right from the start, with a fantastic dynamic range and plenty of tweakable features that I’ve come to expect from Spitfire." - Matt Novack (Miracle Workers, Murderville)
"A beautiful piano library captured with exceptional detail. The sound is warm, rich, incredibly expressive, and particularly beautiful in a solo setting. The instrument immediately plays well out of the box, but the Shelf velocity curve was helpful to get the best expression from the instrument." - Recording Magazine
