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14-day money back guarantee included if product is not activated
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If you decide you don't want your order, you can return it within 14 days of receiving it. Provided your product hasn't been activated in that time, you can exchange it for a different product, or get a refund.
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This does not affect your statutory rights.
For more information, please refer to our Returns and Refunds Information.
If you decide your order isn't suitable for any reason you can return it - just let us know within 30 days of receiving it. Please keep hold of all the original packaging until you're sure you want to keep the order.
Eligibility for Money Back Guarantee
Important: For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered." Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions. Products include:
- Monitors and Headphones
- Earplugs and Ear Protection
- Reeds and mouthpieces for woodwind and brass instruments
- Mouth and Lip-Care Products
- CDs, DVDs and Software
We can collect your return for a small fee, or you can send it back to us yourself. The collection fee can be found in the returns information on each product's page on Gear4music.
In the unlikely event that any item in this order is faulty, damaged or incorrect on receipt, notify us within 14 days and we'll arrange a free collection.
When returning an order please ensure products are appropriately packaged and protected, to prevent them from getting damaged.
This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| 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 |
We are unable to accept returns of any custom made items designed to work together as a unique package and some items are only eligible for money back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging. For full information on our returns policy, please refer to our returns and refunds information guide.
Key Features
The Vienna Symphonic Library Concert D-274 Essentials is a virtual piano instrument sampled from a handpicked Steinway & Sons D-274 concert grand for authentic studio performances. Capturing the defining character of this renowned piano, it delivers a detailed, expressive playing experience in an efficient virtual instrument designed for producers, composers, and pianists working entirely in the box. Recorded in the acclaimed acoustics of Vienna Synchron Stage A, it includes both Room Mix and close microphone signals to let you customise the depth of each and every note to fit your mix with ease.
Six carefully designed presets, including Concert, Intimate, Player, Pop, Ambience, and Mighty, make it easy to adapt the piano to different genres and production styles. Powered by the Synchron engine, with the Concert D-274 Essentials you can adjust a huge range of parameters including the sympathetic resonances and body resonances for natural interaction between strings and the instruments.
Product Ref: 343047
The Concert D-274 Essentials captures the distinctive sound of a carefully selected Steinway & Sons D-274 using an advanced sampling process developed for exceptional consistency. A precision motion-control system with an advanced robotic mechanism reproduced every keystroke with remarkable accuracy, preserving the instrument's natural dynamics and expression across the library. Although this Essentials edition features fewer velocity layers than the flagship Synchron Concert D-274, it retains the core tonal detail and responsive feel that make the instrument so inspiring to play. Every sample was recorded in the renowned Stage A at Vienna Synchron Stage, giving you the warm, transparent ambience heard on countless professional productions.
Shape the piano to suit your music with the included Synchron Piano Player. Six ready-to-use presets provide tailored starting points for concert performance, intimate recordings, pop productions, and spacious ambient mixes, while deeper editing tools let you personalise the instrument further. Adjust sympathetic and body resonance, fine-tune individual key response, balance note dynamics, or apply filtering across specific frequency ranges. You can also add algorithmic reverb for additional depth, giving you plenty of flexibility when building piano sounds that sit naturally in your mix without requiring extensive processing.
Designed to fit seamlessly into contemporary workflows, Concert D-274 Essentials includes both Room Mix and close microphone perspectives, allowing you to choose between natural concert hall ambience or a more focused sound. Whether you're writing orchestral scores, producing pop tracks, or recording solo piano performances, these mix-ready options help you reach a polished result quickly. The efficient library size also makes it an excellent choice for composers and producers who need an authentic Steinway sound without the larger storage requirements of an expanded sample collection.
"The Concert D-274 is amazingly playable and malleable. A magnificent concert grand piano fit for any application." - Ramin Djawadi - Composer (Game Of Thrones, Iron Man, Pacific Rim)
