Instruments,remembered.
Steinbach Instruments · Digital Heritage · Sample instruments
Instruments die quietly. Reeds snap, pipes fall silent, transistors drift, and the people who could repair them are becoming as rare as the instruments themselves. We record them before that happens: on location, register by register, key by key. Then we build them into playable instruments, so their voices outlive the hardware.
Recorded on location · KONTAKT & standalone · Instruments worth keeping
How an instrument survives.
On location
Recorded where the instrument lives: its room, its acoustics, its atmosphere included.
Voice by voice
Every register, key and switch position captured in isolation, at 24-bit / 96 kHz.
Faithfully mapped
Built into KONTAKT and standalone instruments with a GUI that mirrors the original panel.
Released & preserved
Published as a permanent archive, for artists, producers and researchers.
Three people. One archive.
Steinbach Instruments is a three-person project: two engineers and a 3D artist, recording endangered instruments and turning them into software, carefully, one instrument at a time.
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