The final entry in our free KONTAKT piano rundown, The Lobby Piano, is a small grand piano recorded with a variety of techniques and sculpted layers of sound design plucks and picks. This community resource of free sample libraries is a huge repository of interesting experiments for KONTAKT and beyond and well worth exploring. However, if you want to swerve the payment entirely, head to the ever-expanding Pianobook project. To grab this piano oddity, you’re encouraged to donate via the Man Makes Noise website, where contributing as little as €1 will net you this KONTAKT Full library. This is a piano library that inspires beyond its initial impression and leads you down a rabbit-hole of sound design possibilities. For especially chilling ambiences, this prepared piano VST allows you to layer convolution reverbs from both real-world and fantastical spaces. The raw sounds can be adjusted in a number of ways setting keyboard range, filter, distortion and envelope shaping. The presets are a great place to start, with diverse tones from foreboding string scrapes to delicate repetitions. The creators use piano preparation techniques to build a virtual instrument of both subtlety and presence. Recorded in a Roman church, the imperfections of these prepared piano samples are embraced. Nevertheless, inventive musicians will still get plenty of mileage from the two playing techniques Tremolo & Brushes Rub. This offers a slimmed down version of Xperimenta Project’s Preparato Piano sound, just with fewer articulations, microphone positions and features. The first piano on our list that requires the full version of KONTAKT. If you’re a fan of the sound, upgrade to the pro version which boasts more detailed sampling and a true sustain layer.
With a little massaging it’s possible to conjure some really interesting piano tones from the Felt Seiler to form the basis of wistfully emotional cues. There’s also a huge variety of traditional and designed impulse responses for the convolution reverb section. A suite of FX includes filter, compression, EQ and delay.
Adjust the settings beneath each fader for stereo spread or choose a gentler sound with the “soft” button, which swaps to an alternate set of soft-pedal samples. This gives a warm and intimate tone, recorded in 4 dynamics, captured with a variety of close microphones and then summed to one position. The upright piano was prepared for recording with a layer of felt between the piano hammers and strings. Playback of these layers can be individually reversed to create a more other-wordly sound. Three different synth layers can be mixed in the interface. Similar to the piano above, Strezov Sampling’s free Felt Seiler for KONTAKT Player combines a piano tone with texture.
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