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 »
The Tack is a recreation of “Mrs Mills”, a tack piano from Abbey Road Studios with which The Beatles, Elliot Smith and many others recorded some of their tracks. The tack piano (sometimes referred to as jangle piano, junk piano, honky-tonk piano or harpsipiano) is a permanently altered version of an ordinary piano, in which tacks or nails… 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 »
F9 Forte Piano Chords – A Groundbreaking new way to work with Piano. If you ever wanted to build a build a huge, rich Piano Riff for your next production but lack the Musical knowledge and Keyboard agility then you need Forte Piano Chords from F9 – 12 musical sets of chords laid out across your Midi controller… 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 in Torino (Italy)… 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 »
The Braunschweig Upright Piano has a distinctive sound character that’s far more intimate than a grand piano, making it desirable for certain situations where you don’t want the polished and precise sound of a nine-foot grand in a concert hall. An original Schimmel Braunschweig upright piano was painstakingly recorded to create this beautiful instrument. As with all Imperfect… 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 »
