I was browsing through a thrift store when I came across a vintage reel-to-reel tape recorder. I was curious to try it out, so I bought it and took it home. When I plugged it in, I was surprised to find that it still worked! I decided to use it to make a “tape piano”…
Welcome to the NEW Drinking Piano 2.0! This upgraded version has been remastered with fresh new sounds that will give your music a boost. In addition to tuned and untuned pianos, you’ll find bench creaks, plucks, pedal noises, SFX, 3 categories of atmospheric pads, drones, evolving textures and more! Soundiron also included a flexible four-layer…
9 Best Piano VST Plugins Reviewed by A Professional 2022 The VST plugin for pianos is one of my favorites. I created this guide to help you understand piano plugins. It has always been my belief that a good piano plugin can easily compete against real pianos in live performances. There is no VST and…
Midnight Upright V2 is a FREE Kontakt Piano Library that is perfect for your next dark and suspenseful composition. This library has a felted upright piano with an extra pad layer that adds some interesting textures in the background. Whether you are looking to add some tension to your score or evoke a feeling of…
Do you know those days when you just don’t feel like dealing with people? Do you want to hole up in your apartment and enjoy some peace and quiet? But your upstairs neighbor is blasting some god-awful music again, and you can’t seem to find the will to get out of bed? Well, friends, today…
91% OFF: Insane Piano Bundle by Sampletekk TVBO is a top-in-class library with 31 velocities/recorded notes that give you a fantastic velocity response! Almost 10 Gb lossless compressed samples (about 15 Gb uncompressed), 7399 different samples. The Black Grand MkII is based on the magnificent Steinway D, recorded in a concert hall for the true…
Sale – 50% off “Ravenscroft 275” by VI-Labs Some instruments truly can inspire and take your creativity to new levels. “Ravenscroft 275” (Affiliate Link) is one of these rare instruments. This one-of-a-kind concert grand has been recreated using nearly 17,000 samples and 4 discrete microphones, controlled from an easy-to-use interface. “Ravenscroft 275” (Affiliate Link) is one piano that works for all styles…
Pianoforte – Sustains, Una Corda, Muted, and Sound Design Pads ‘Pianoforte’ stars a Fazioli F212 sampled to maximum authenticity employing various microphone positions – including Ambisonics microphones, to achieve the sheer gentleness and mellow harmonic body only a Fazioli can deliver. Audio Brewers has recorded the Piano’s sonic emanations from all corners practicable, Audio Brewers…
ORIGINALS MRS MILLS PIANO A Steinway Vertegrand, recorded in Abbey Road, Studio Two. Spitfire Audio delivers the distinctive sound of Abbey Road-residing pop history housed in inexpensive ORIGINALS MRS MILLS PIANO plug-in namesake. Spitfire Audio is proud to partner with world-famous Abbey Road Studios to present ORIGINALS MRS MILLS PIANO — professionally recorded in the latter’s Studio Two, the legendary home…
Upright Piano – A Essenfelder 1975 was recorded at Galeria Resistor The Upright Piano, a Essenfelder 1975 was recorded at Galeria Resistor, a Vintage Art Space in Belo Horizonte Brazil, using four microphones. Now, all Muletone libraries have a level meter on each microphone, in addition to a waveform display. A main label has also…
TRAVELING PIANOS by Kirk Hunter Studios For an insane intro price of $99.99 (normally $199.99), get the all-new TRAVELING PIANOS (Affiliate Link), the latest release from Kirk Hunter Studios. TRAVELING PIANOS contains two pianos: Kirk Hunter’s own Yamaha G5 for a clear, pristine, yet powerful sound and Michael Lehmann-Boddicker’s Yamaha C7 engineered by Michael himself,…
Brings Modern Aesthetic, Color Display and Simplified User Interface to Hugely Popular Series Yamaha today unveiled the DGX-670, a stylish digital piano featuring a modern, attractive aesthetic and a simplified user interface. The new “Portable Grand” ensemble instrument is a full, 88-note weighted action keyboard with exceptional playability, superb sound and visual appeal, making it ideal…
Library Spotlight – Midnight Grand & Woodchester Piano Woodchester Piano is the first in Fracture Sounds new series of collaborations with talented composers and artists, bringing you a range of finely crafted virtual instruments full of personality. This library was produced in close collaboration with film and TV composer James Everingham (Apollo: Missions to the…
Best-Selling Portable Piano Series Updated with the Latest Sound Technologies and Features Roland announces the FP-X series, the latest generation of Roland’s long-running FP series of portable digital pianos. The FP-90X, FP-60X, and FP-30X each deliver best-in-class performance, with Roland’s acclaimed piano engines and hammer-action keyboards coupled with Bluetooth audio/MIDI and USB connectivity, recording, and metronome functions, and more.…
RP701 and F701 with Premium Sound, Authentic Playability, and Onboard Learning Features Roland introduces the RP701 and F701 digital pianos, two compact and affordable instruments for the home. Roland’s famous piano technologies deliver an inspiring piano experience, while onboard education features and Bluetooth audio/MIDI connectivity with music apps encourage learning and enjoyment. The RP701 offers a traditional upright design in a…
Glacier Keys – Cinematic Piano Harmonics Glacier Keys is a collection of piano harmonics, performed on a Steinway D concert grand and sampled in incredible detail in a modern concert hall setting. Harmonics are produced by gently placing a finger on the middle of the string, producing a pitch an octave above the natural note…
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Inovus i88™ a Feature-Packed Digital Piano The Inovus i88™ is a Digital Piano, offering unmatched realism and a natural piano-like feel and playability. 88 Full-Sized keys are accurately weighted to feel and sound like a real piano.
ENHANCED PIANO FOR KONTAKT 6 Eighty-eight individual piano strings have been sampled from A-1 to C7 and then overlaid note by note with an atmospheric orchestral tail-off. If a short release is set the end result is a rich-sounding, bright piano with key for key realism and no time-stretched artifacts. Varied velocity layers under the hood…
Video Walkthrough Audio Brewers – The Upright ‘The Upright’, a library designed to give you the real feel that a vintage upright would give you on a winter night while you drink a cup of coffee brewed by us, the audio brewers. The idea behind The Upright is to be able to offer composers an extra dimension…
Hammersmith Free – Model D Grand Piano Soniccouture released a 4.8GB version of their well known (and much bigger) Hammersmith Pro product. Hammersmith Free features a single set of stereo mics (Schoeps MK4) and uses a ‘traditionally programmed’ sustain pedal method rather than the True Sustain samples in the ‘Pro’ version. It still has the full 21…
The Upright by Audio Brewers ‘The Upright’, a library designed to give you the real feel that a vintage upright would give you on a winter night while you drink a cup of coffee brewed by us, the audio brewers. The idea behind The Upright is to be able to offer composers an extra dimension…
Room Piano v3 by SampleScience Room Piano is a light piano plugin for musicians who want to add a lo-fi touch to their tracks. The living room piano has been sampled in 2 velocities every 3 semitones to keep it CPU friendly. The plugin is based on an upright acoustic piano 24-bit stereo recording. Features: 1…
SAMPLETEKK EMOTIONAL PIANO BUNDLE For only $31.60 (normally $316), get the SampleTekk Emotional Piano Bundle (Affiliate Link) featuring 4 pianos: Blue Grand MkII, Vertikal MkII, Rain Piano MkII and Small Studio Grand! The BLUE GRAND relied on Sampletekk’s 100-year-old Malmsjö grand used in some of their most popular libraries. The Blue Grand takes a slightly…
Piano Textures by Sonixinema Sonixinema released a new library, Piano Textures – a free virtual instrument for Kontakt featuring an intimately recorded Upright Piano which has been twisted, mangled and warped in to a wide array in cinematic sounds. Featuring 8 custom presets ranging from a warm and delicate upright piano sound to dark, dirty,…
How to Lay Out Piano Samples In this Kontakt scripting tutorial, I show how to work with piano samples. Topics covered: distinct samples for sustain and non-sustain, release triggers, and pedal up/down sounds. The SCHIMMEL PIANO featured in this video (Andrew Finch Schimmel) can be downloaded for free on Pianobook
How to make a Lo-Fi Piano with Omnisphere Want to create unique lo-fi piano sounds in Omnisphere? In this video I deconstruct one of my presets to show you how to add a delicate lo-fi edge to a basic piano sound. In this video I discuss: How to get a tape-style warping effect using an LFO Adding an…
91% OFF Piano Pioneers Bundle by RealSamples For just $19.99 (instead of $219.90), get the Piano Pioneers Bundle from REALSAMPLES (Affiliate Link) featuring 2 unique sounding piano libraries from their Beurmann series: Dulcitone Celesta and Early Pianoforte! Early Pianoforte Early Pianoforte – one of the earliest pianoforte instruments, built by Johann Andreas Stein built in…
Reversed & Hiss by KLANG KLANG loves tape sounds. So here it’s all about the inspiring potential of their nostalgic feelings around tape. Listening to radio plays before sleeping as a child, recording demo tracks on a four track. Bringing back the warmness and imperfection with saturation, wow & flutter by playing instruments through all…
Musical Sampling’s Daydream Musical Sampling launched the first of their new Atelier Series line, Daydream; an intimate release that includes four instruments geared towards emotional, ethereal contexts. Daydream is an intimate release that includes four instruments geared towards emotional, ethereal contexts. For the Cozy Piano patch, we recorded an upright piano at the pianissimo range with a…
GlobalGiving’s California Wildfire Relief Fund Q Up Arts positively pledges 50% of California Keys™ sample instrument sales to GlobalGiving’s California Wildfire Relief Fund Q Up Arts is proud to continue trying to make a positive difference during the turbulent year that is 2020 by pledging 50% of the sales of California KeysTM — making musical…
MAGIC TOY PIANO by Loops de la Crème MAGIC TOY PIANO is a beautiful, inspiring Toy Piano library for Kontakt. With superb stereo sampling, extra key-off samples, and up to 7 velocity layers, MAGIC TOY PIANO offers a perfect realistic toy piano with great playability. A practical mixer with 9 extra sound layers lets you…
UPRIGHT FELT PIANO v4.0 Update Westwood was born from an idea that composing on a computer would be much better if it felt like you’re writing with a musician and an instrument in front of you. Westwood did today update UPRIGHT FELT PIANO which is the free version of their ALT PIANO. We all loved piano, perfect for…
DUE Premium Grand Pianos by Xperimenta Project For only $49.99 (instead of $129), get DUE Premium Grand Pianos (Affiliate Link) for Kontakt retail by Xperimenta Project! XPERIMENTA DUE Premium Grand Pianos (Affiliate Link) features two premium grand pianos sampled in a beautiful-sounding room with unique detail and realism. The pianos are based on the C7…
WG2 MkII Studio Grand Piano by SAMPLETEKK Grand Piano can be used in so many ways, from playing Mozart to hammer out Jerry Lee or Little Richard stuff and everything in between. SampleTekk realized that there isn’t anything that could be considered ”The ultimate Grand Piano” in the world of multi-sampled instruments. The SAMPLETEKK Team…
WG2 MkII – Studio Grand Piano The SAMPLETEKK Team used an old, LARGE, Malmsjö Grand piano from around 1910, that had the clarity needed to work in modern production, but also, at the same time, had the richness at the well-contoured bass side that would provide the power needed on the lower part of the…
LABS PIANO PADS by Spitfire Audio These timeless, ambient pads & swells have been made from single piano hits, warped in creative ways using spring reverb, cross-fade, reversing, and time-stretch techniques by Spitfire co-founder, Christian Henson.
Free Piano Libraries (Pianobook) for Kontakt Full Pianobook is a collective sample project inspiring musicians to embrace the magic of sampling and share their creations with the community. Currently 339 free instruments …and counting! This ever-growing library of free piano instruments for the Kontakt sampler contains some incredible modern and traditional pianos. Curated by one…
Cory’s Library Spotlight – PREPARATO | PIANO After 2 years of work, Flavio Cangialosi of XPERIMENTA is really excited to announce PREPARATO Piano, the first library of the Preparato Series recorded in a beautiful church in the center of Rome.
Apollo Sound – Emotive Piano Chord Progressions Apollo Sound would like to present Emotive Piano Chord Progressions (Affiliate Link). It’s a universal solution for cinematic genre music producers or for all those who dig for emotional & beautiful chord progressions to start their tracks and songs creation. Inside Emotive Piano Chord Progressions (Affiliate Link) you…
SampleScience Launched Cinematic Piano Cinematic Piano is a rich and beautiful sounding acoustic piano plugin. Perfect for cinematic scores, backdrop atmospheres, and piano solos, Cinematic Piano combines real-life recordings of an acoustic piano with electronic sound design. The result is a deep sound that doesn’t require any mastering to sound good. Cinematic Piano requires very…
Bösendorfer Imperial by Vienna Symphonic Library The Bösendorfer Concert Grand 290 Imperial represents the apex of the famed Austrian piano manufacturer’s precious heritage. Its extraordinary, orchestral sound is rich in expression and resonance with a warm tone, thanks to the enormous resonance board and the nine additional sub-bass notes. The instrument’s key range is extended downward…
‘Three Hundred’ by Waverunner Audio ‘Three Hundred’ is a limited edition run of all current products, multiple pre-orders, vouchers and a raffle for the most powerful MacBook Pro ever. Existing Products After your purchase, your email will be added to the 300 mailing list and you will receive licenses for all existing products within 24hours…
Emotive Pianos Vol 2 by Famous Audio “Emotive Pianos Vol 2” (Affiliate Link)“Emotive Pianos” giving flowing piano sounds that create a heartfelt, inspiring mood with cinematic flavors! “Emotive Pianos Vol 2” (Affiliate Link) brings you 70 professionally played, evocative, and inspiring piano themes and 69 meticulously programmed MIDI files range at 90/120/140 BPM. From deeply…
A Destroyed Piano – Sale on Cinematic Keys by Sample Logic Sample Logic brought together a wide variety of musical instruments for Cinematic Keys (Affiliate Link). This creative library covers everything from a beautiful acoustic concert grand piano to a toy xylophone is featured. The recording sessions ranged from traditional to the slightly more unconventional…
Free Novel Piano by Sonic Atoms The free Halion library Novel Piano by Sonic Atoms is a beautiful and warm sounding upright piano. Every note sounds different and has its own character which gives very natural and organic results. Get is for free here. It has its unique sonic quality which fits perfectly into calm and…
Vintage Keyboard Collection by Insanity Samples 5 Iconic Vintage Key Based Instruments The vintage keys collection is a meticulously multi-sampled collection of 5 iconic vintage key-based instruments. Stage Piano MK1 – a take on the much loved and highly sought after fender rhodes mark 1. Complete with an effects chain, release triggers, 3 round robins &…
Sound Magic Updates Cinema Grand Cinema Grand is a blend of two great grands that meet the needs of working composers in today’s film, television, and video game industries. They were handpicked featuring a charming mellow sound, with a smooth dynamic transition from ppp to ff. Cinema Grand Changes a new standalone program under windows…
Very Close Piano 2 by inouï samples With the latest release Very Close Piano 2 by inouï samples they aim to offers you the piano with more precision, more attack and more density that you have ever heard. During the recoding inouï samples used in addition to a classic stereophonic recording. Two unheard microphone positions which…
PAIN PIANO by Silence+Other Sounds – Prepared Piano Stabs & Rhythms Silence+Other Sounds released a Pain Piano is a sound design Kontakt library based on prepared piano experiments. Silence+Other Sounds had the privilege to access to an astonishing piano boutique in Naples (Southern Italy), where they have recorded a large collection of pianos including Mornington…
Ólafur Arnalds Reveals The Story Behind Stratus Watch BAFTA-winning composer and producer Ólafur Arnalds at his studio in Reykjavik to uncover the story behind Stratus. Follow the journey of this extraordinary project as Ólafur explains the idea behind its inception, the initial development with innovator Halldór Eldjárn, as well as his hopes for the future.
Ólafur Arnalds Stratus – The Most Important Chord Sequence In Modern Music
Spitfire Audio launches ÓLAFUR ARNALDS STRATUS Spitfire Audio reunites with BAFTA-winning Icelandic composer and producer to reimagine piano as ÓLAFUR ARNALDS STRATUS sample instrument. Collectively captivated by this fantastic fusion of organic, emotive physicality and electronic innovation ingenuity, Spitfire Audio spent several weeks at Ólafur Arnalds’ awe-inspiring studio space in Reykjavik, Iceland capturing his unique-sounding…
Dark Piano by Replika Sound Updated to Version 3 Dark Piano is the beginning of a series of Replika Sound libraries that have been designed to provide an expansive range of dark and suspenseful textures whilst providing controls to allow the composer to easily invent unique sounds. This library is both a WAV Sample Pack…
Free Felt Piano by Jon Meyer Music Jon Meyer sampled his Kawai Piano with the felts engaged for that dark, moody, quiet vibe. Neumann KM84’s provide the focus, U47 clones bring the hype and width with Coles 4038 Ribbons on the back for a nice round, clear low end. About Jon Meyer Jon Meyer tells…
Man Makes Noise One Year Birthday Sale Today Man Makes Noise turns one full year old. So to celebrate that they are doing a -50% sale for the rest of the week. So until the 3rd of February, 2020 you can get a good discount on their organic line of Omnisphere libraries “The Lobby Piano”…
Roland GPX-F1 Facet Grand Piano Roland, a leading manufacturer of electronic musical instruments and professional video products, unveils the GPX-F1 Facet Grand Piano at CES 2020 in Las Vegas. Based on the winning entry from the Roland Digital Piano Design Awards in 2015, this futuristic concept model is fully functional and visually unique, pairing a…
VReeds Electric Piano VReeds Electric Piano follows the earlier release of B-5 Organ and VTines MK1. Acousticsamples released another Electric Piano instrument using modeling techniques and samples as the sound source. Pricing The VReeds Electric Piano is available at an introductory price of 99€ / $119, owners of our “Wurlie” library get a 50% discount…
GO:PIANO With Alexa Built-in Roland, a leading manufacturer and distributor of electronic musical instruments and professional video products, releases GO:PIANO with Alexa Built-in, the company’s first musical instrument equipped with Amazon Alexa. Committed to inspiring the thrill of creative expression, Roland continually seeks to develop new technology solutions that make playing musical instruments easier, more…
Altered Piano for Omnisphere 2 Altered Piano is the spiritual sequel to Plughugger’s Inferno soundset. Inferno was built only around the famous Burning Piano sounds in Omnisphere, Altered Piano goes much further and includes on all kinds of piano-related sounds from the vast collection of sound sources in Omnisphere, from normal-sounding pianos to noises, effects and weird…
Vienna Symphonic Library Released Synchron Pianos: Bösendorfer Upright The beautiful Bösendorfer Grand Upright 130 includes the experience of nearly two centuries of grand piano making. Its pure and pristine piano sound was captured with all its beauty and character at Stage B of Synchron Stage Vienna. The legendary pure and rich Bösendorfer sound is based…
