Vintage Upright is a beautiful “character” piano, subtly out-of-tune, bursting with realism, and filling a gap between the pristinely sampled pianos on the market and novelty “junk” pianos. Its haunting tone shines beautifully as a solo instrument or in the mix, and lends extraordinary character to any style of music including jazz, rock, blues, pop, ragtime, and… Read More »
After two long months of development, this available a new totally unique and with a totally intuitive platform. The VST to kontakt Nord Stage 2 Piano Library was developed thinking about the need for the musician to own a quality sound on your set, taking up little memory both on disk and in RAM for best results… Read More »
The Big Swing Grand for Kontakt 5 was designed to be the best, warmest, cleanest and most importantly, most playable piano sample available. Created by a pianist, �road tested� on gigs and sessions, much effort and many innovations went into this project. Weighing in at nearly 10GB of 24-bit samples (uncompressed) this is one of the most… Read More »
Intimate, unique, huge dynamic range and dead easy to mix that’s our Lipp Piano. Recorded in Sofia Session Studio with 3 different mic positions, 4x Round Robins on each note and according to our sample philosophy far away from an overprocessed sound many of today’s piano libraries have, this 100 years old instrument will inspire you as… 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 »
AUDIO IMPERIA’s �Klavier” is the first instrument in our new �Private Stock Instruments� series. Originally intended as a private sample library for a group of trailer composers, the two instruments in this series combine the very best of the worlds of raw/organic recordings and post-production/sound design. The goal throughout the whole project was to start with the… 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 »
Cinesamples is proud to present our new pianos library for Kontakt (Player), Abbey Road Classic Upright Pianos. Recorded at the world famous Abbey Road Studio Two in London, and mixed by our very own Tim Starnes, the Abbey Road Pianos library brings two of the record industry�s most iconic upright pianos � and the legendary studio where they… Read More »
Session Keys Grand are Kontakt-based instruments with a new and innovative approach to creating the perfect piano sound. Carefully selected acoustic grand pianos, meticulously recorded and combined with an inventive feature set, deliver unmatched versatility in this truly inspiring set of instruments. Session Keys Grand Y captures the clear, transparent and dynamic sound of a Yamaha CFIIIS. Rich… Read More »
Few instruments get fans of funk grooves drooling like the Hohner D6 clavinet. Classical for harpsichord-esque duties, but really sonically closer to an electric guitar than a piano, its twangy, spanking timbres add a melodic tension to a groove like nothing else. To achieve the iconic funk, it is paired with a wah-wah pedal. One of the… Read More »
Welcome to Plucked Grand Piano – a library dedicated to deep sampling of plucked and hammer struck grand piano strings. The Plucked Grand Piano was created by public demand from our users, since its never been properly deep sampled before. We took a world class piano (same as our Bowed Grand Piano) through a humiliating process by recording… Read More »
While most technology is getting smaller, the size of sample-based piano libraries continues to rise. Colour Sonics´ Pianos V 2.0 is a 43GB collection that features emulations of a range of classic instruments. Both acoustic and electric models are included, and each note is sampled at 20 velocities for 40 seconds. Release and noise layers are also included,… Read More »
