It was back in the fifties when German inventor Ernst Zacharias invented one of the funkiest keyboards of all times. At first the intention was to make a portable version of a cembalo, but it soon turned into one of the most used keyboards in rock and pop music. You will certainly recognize it in the famous pop… Read More »
The basic idea of Supreme Pianos is coming from 3D graphic rendering. It uses Physical modeling to shape the sound’s “skeleton” of the piano, and then mapping a series of harmony components on to the skeleton to achieve an authentic sound. Supreme Pianos does not rely on sampling, has a small memory footprint and extreme low CPU usage… Read More »
The 1901 Upright Studio Piano is the most comprehensive deep-sampled Upright ever created. Recorded and processed at 24-Bit / 96Khz at our famous British Studio through a large custom NEVE desk. The 1901 Upright Studio Piano contains both standard and prepared articulations. All standard sustain samples were recorded with both pedal up, pedal down and half pedal positions.… Read More »
With Cinematic Studio Piano, we invite you to take a seat at a Yamaha C7 Grand in a world-class scoring stage. You’ll be inspired by the warm, realistic sound of the instrument, captured by an array of beautiful ribbon and condenser microphones and recorded using the same techniques as the rest of the Cinematic Studio Series. CSP’s intelligent… Read More »
INTERVAL Interval isn’t quite like anything else you’ve played. It is an instrument which „has real life and breath“ as composer Theodore Shapiro said. Inspired by contemporary compositions Interval pursues a new approach into building sounds. It is hard to explain, but in the broadest sense, it is an instrument for building inspiring pads, organic atmospheres as well… Read More »
The 1990 Studio Grand Piano is amongst one of our favourite virtual instruments ever done. This extraordinary library contains over 48.000 samples and unique microphones/positions, including Neumann 87’s, Coles, Neve SE Ribbon’s, AKG 414’s and Neumann KM 184’s. Everything was lovingly recorded & processed at 96k at a famous hi-tech British Studio through one of the greatest custom… Read More »
The Siel Orchestra 2 is made up of four sections : Brass, Piano, Reeds and Strings. The original Siel Orchestra was bought by ARP and relabeled the Quartet. Presented here for use with Kontakt is the Orchestra 2 with lots of extra features added. We sampled this synth twice: one set of samples are totally clean and recorded… Read More »
The Acoustic Piano is an incredibly hard instrument to capture and until now all piano libraries have needed a great deal of additional processing to fit comfortably inside the power of a modern club or pop production. with FORTE Evolution this has all changed.The F9 FORTE product line is also about delivering the Chords and we’ve added more… Read More »
We are proud to present our first multi-sample instrument – Grand Piano. Provided in Kontakt, ThaLoops Player ® and Soundfont formats. Wether you are producing hip hop, rnb, pop, rock or love to play classic pieces on piano – Steinway & Sons has been providing the standard piano sound for musicians around the world. The samples were recorded… Read More »
A set of Expansions to Rompler Trackgodsound – TrackGod TrackGod VST Base Ick Keys Expansion.WIN – 1 Piano, 7 presets. The first preset – the usual piano, the others change, but the sound is very cool! TrackGod VST 5 Urban Guitars Expansion.WIN – Small but nice guitar Bank. 5 guitars, designed to work with hip-hop. TrackGod VST… Read More »
Replika Sound has announced the launch of RSSD01 Dark Piano Composer Edition for Kontakt 5, which consists of 3155 samples in 9 instruments including 356 textural loops. This 5.5 GB cinematic instrument is made entirely from sounds inside a piano: Dark Glissandi, Rasping Scrapes, Deep Booms, Metallic Clangs, High Chimes, Brass and Wood Hits, Short Whooshes and Reverses.… Read More »
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 »
BOWED GRAND PIANO Welcome to Bowed Grand Piano – a library decided to deep sampling of bowed and FX based grand piano strings. Bowed Grand Piano marks the third chapter in our piano series, which also contains our hyper expressive: “Emotional Piano” and more experimental: “Plucked Grand Piano” The bowing of a piano is a delicate effort, since… Read More »
