The King’s Upright
A soft upright piano that cuts through a mix while maintaining a gentle tone palette
ByDan Keen
The story
Welcome to The King’s Upright, a soft upright piano that cuts through a mix while maintaining a gentle tone palette.
It particularly thrives in the upper mid-range, serving well to deliver lyrical melodies to your pieces, solo or cinematic. There is also a pad layer included, which works well as an infinite sustain pedal. This blend can be adjusted using the Mod Wheel.
This instrument was recorded through a stereo pair of close-miked AKG C214s and Saffire Pro 40 interface, using Christian Henson’s medium-strength sampling template. The library has two dynamic layers (layer 1 and 2) and three round robins (RR1, RR2 etc). There are also some release triggers (RT) and pedal sounds (PU – pedal up, PD – pedal down). The custom pad sound blend can be adjusted using the mod wheel or you can right-click the blend knob to learn via whichever MIDI CC you like.
To learn more about the library, watch my walkthrough here:
Reviews
Incredible Piano Sound
With hundreds and hundreds of pianos to choose from, it's hard now to rank high in the Pianobook "piano" charts. However, "The King's Upright" deserved to be up there. Dan has sampled the intricacies of a beautiful piano. In fact, my demo for this is the basis for an EP I'm working on with 2 incredible singers. So...there's that. LOL. Enjoy!
Great scoring tool
This is surprisingly warm, soft, and great for my trailer scores. Great work, Dan!
Warm piano
I love the sound of this warm piano. I m beggining in music and i m trying lofi piano, this sound so good.