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 »
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 »
