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NAMM Show 2009, Anaheim - January 17

SCARBEE join forces with Alicia Keys to create virtual piano
American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, pianist, producer and actress Alicia Keys and Scarbee, have joined forces and created a virtual piano software with the obvious name: Alicia's Keys!

In late summer Alicia, Grammy Award winning engineer Ann Mincielli and Thomas Hansen Skarbye (Scarbee) set out on a quest to create a virtual piano of Alicia's favourite piano - recorded in the Oven Studios in NY.

By using the premium vintage microphones and preamps and carefully analyzing Alicias playing we succeded in getting a very warm, soulful and inspiring sound - fun to play.

"I feel confident that we came up with the best Virtual Piano you've ever heard and I am excited to Introduce it to you! Thomas and Nils are a Brilliant Team!", says Alicia Keys.

Alicia Keys has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and has won 11 Grammy Awards, 17 Billboard Music Awards, 5 American Music Awards, and recently she received the People's Choice Award for Favorite R&B Song for "No One"!

Alicia's Keys will be released and distributed by the artist herself (So NOT a Scarbee product) and is expected to ship in Q2 - 2009

For more information go to www.aliciakeys.com

Features

• The sound of Alicia Keys' composer piano - recorded in her own studio
• Pedal Up: 12 velocities + 2 extra generated soft velocities
• Pedal Down: 11 velocities + 3 extra generated soft velocities
• Key Release (staccato): 10 velocities
• Pedal Up Mechanical Release noises for each of the 88 keys
• Pedal Down Mechanical Release noises for each of the 88 keys
• Pedal Down Noise - sound of pedal being pressed down
• Pedal Up Noise - sound of pedal released
• Sostenuto pedal support
• Sympathetic resonance - notes generate harmonics in other undampened strings.
• Adjustable sample start offset - tweak balance between low latency and key hit noise.
• Adjustable Microphone noise for old-school sound
• EQ and Effect Presets - direct in the instrument user interface.
• Integrated documentation for all settings - direct in the instrument user interface
• More exiting features will be added on release!
  

Mp3 demos
Transformation (dry)
Transformation (wet)
Flying (dry)
Flying (wet)
Baroque_inspired_melody (dry)
Baroque_inspired_melody (wet)
Tomheten (dry)
Tomheten (wet)

Songs by Nils Liberg

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Some more demos - in funk, jazz and pop style...

These are originally made for Scarbee electric keyboards but shows a new side of the piano. Note that there are several small pieces within each mp3!

All dry off course..

www.scarbee-downloads.com/demos/ak/Christian_Vinten_Jam.mp3

www.scarbee-downloads.com/demos/ak/Christian_Vinten_Jam_2.mp3

www.scarbee-downloads.com/demos/ak/Sevan_Gokoglu_Jam.mp3

Songs are by Christian Vinten and sevan Gokoglu