The Model D grand piano was sampled from a Hamburg-made 1939 Steinway D274 grand coda piano. This particular piano has been in use in various venues in Italy and has been played and praised by many top-level international classical and jazz players. This piano’s age definitely guarantees it the vintage moniker, nonetheless it went through proper maintenance… Read More »
The Stupidly Huge Toy Piano And Friends is a collection of two five octave toy piano instruments, two high end multisampled celestes, two normal toy pianos, a set of suspended tines and a prepared piano. Toy pianos are usually limited to being a great little additional tinkly instrument, but with only a few keys, a simple additional colour… Read More »
When we chose to create piano Instruments, we carefully chose which upright piano to start from. When facing grand codas, the choice is rather limited, but upright pianos are a totally different world. We wanted a piano capable of producing both a full sound and the shallow on the edge of being out-of-tune tone characteristic of so many… Read More »
Tru-Urban has released Mike Kalombo’s Golden Keyz, a new Kontakt Library featuring professional piano and keyboard phrases by producer Mike Kalombo (So So Def, Usher, Mariah Carey, Monica, Jermaine Dupri). Golden Keyz is designed to give music producers, beat-makers and creators, maximum flexibility and control where they would normally be limited using musical phrases or loops. The library… Read More »
The Model 7 grand piano was sampled from a Yamaha C7 grand coda piano. Our first idea was to sample a CFIII, but when we went to the rental-house we totally fell in love with this one and chose it. This particular piano has been in constant use since the ’80s in two highly praised concert halls… Read More »
Each Festa Latina Volume in the series includes .WAV CD-ROM. Fast arranging is possible in WAV-format with your sequencer. Volume 2 in the series offers Bass, Guitars and Pianos and features the most comprehensive collection of traditional and pop-latin pianos and bass loops, most in 4-bar rhythm, each in four keys and different tempo. Highlight on this CD:… Read More »
The electro mechanical piano has been sampled over and over, so why do it again? One reason is because each one has its own specific sound, and this one, the Mark 2, has been overlooked by many other companies, while it has a distinctive sound that especially comes to life in soulful ballads, but also holds its own… Read More »
‘Piano in Silence’ from Fox Samples features 50 piano loops (42 main melodies and eight variations) plus 50 MIDI files recorded and played by professional piano players. This pack will give you that rich-sounding piano that will fill up your song and make your next romantic ballad or Pop/RnB track a hit. All formats and MIDI files are… Read More »
Adam Monroe’s Upright Piano was sampled from a (slightly used) Schafer and Sons VS-40 upright piano using Oktava Mk-012 (in cardioid pattern) and AEA Ribbon microphones in wide stereo into Grace M101 and AEA TRP preamps. The piano was sampled with both small diaphragm condenser and ribbon microphones in order to capture both the transient details and… Read More »
Background At the core, the CP-70 is a piano with strings and hammers with a pickup system for electric amplification. Originally released in the 1970’s as a “portable grand piano” for use on rock tours, the sound was made famous by Genesis, Kansas, U2 and more recently Keane. The CP-70 can be compared to that of a… Read More »
EZkeys is a plugin and stand-alone instrument that combines a world-class piano player, songwriting partner, arranger and a meticulously sampled instrument – all in one package. Aside from rich tonal qualities, EZkeys allows the user unlimited creativity through its functionality. EZkeys Electric Grand comes with a carefully sampled Yamaha CP-80. This instrument was first introduced on the… Read More »
Imperfect Samples is proud to release the final piano library, the Brasted London Broken Upright Piano. The Brasted Broken Upright Piano was sitting in an old house gathering dust, and hasn’t been tuned for over 90 years. The instrument has been imperfectly sampled with unmuted strings, and is suitable for situations where an extemely intimate, detuned, honky-tonk or… Read More »
Addictive Keys is a blend of innovative design and creative expression. Addictive Keys is slim enough to run on both stationary and laptop computers without compromising sound quality. The standalone version is perfect for spontaneous jamming and live performances and the plug-in version supports all major DAW hosts. Addictive Keys is designed to keep the user creative… Read More »
TruePianos is based on a combination of physical modeling, synthesis and sampler techniques. Using a combination of the best of what these individual technologies have to offer, TruePianos provides great playability by allowing itself to be easily adjusted to the combination of your unique playing style and the specific characteristics of your MIDI keyboard, instead of the… Read More »
The VIENNA CONCERT GRAND reproduces in the finest detail the sound of the legendary Viennese piano. Adapted from Native Instruments legendary AKOUSTIK PIANO software and featuring high-quality recording of ten velocity layers per key this KONTAKT instrument produces a sound indistinguishable from the original for expression and authenticity. Native Instruments’ groundbreaking Sample Engine with Layer Morphing Technology allow… Read More »
