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Kawai Felt Piano
A Kawai upright felted and recorded with Neumann KM84’s, U47 clones, and a pair of Coles 4038 Ribbons. Two dynamic layers and two round robins.
Tatak – Felt Piano [Muted]
Felt piano muted by thumbs. Recorded with 2 Line Audio CM3's into Apogee Duet.
Notes Productions Felt Piano
A 100 year old upright sampled with stereo AKG 414 microphones and a mono Placid Audio Copperphone for FX
Piano Percussions
A set of percussive sounds made by sampling an old upright piano hit with a felted mallet as well as some additional sounds. They are gathered in 2 drum kits.
Crystal Tones
Created from a set of Crystal Singing Bowls, recorded and processed through a selection of pedals to achieve a beautiful drone/pad instrument controlled by additional FX controls.
Dirty Violin
A single Violin sample merged with rubbed metal, that can be used to create atmospheres and soundscapes as well as a layer for other instruments
Monochord
A sample pack exploring different articulations and sounds from a cheap monochord. An additional set of manipulated patches are included as well.
Woodland Grand Piano (demo)
The Woodland Grand Piano is a multi-layered and multi-miked instrument with five articulations (Felt, Normal, Muted, Plucked, Rain) and several release triggers and pedal sounds
The Forest Flute
A handmade flute that I found while rooting around in the cupboards in a camping house, recorded in the lush forests of the Netherlands with birdsong.
Egret
Created for Kontact 6 Pro. It has three distinct voices. I developed the samples using Hybrid from AIR . These samples were developed by me just working on the samples within each voice till it felt right to me. All controllers are scripted to assigned CC# channels so using "learn midi CC# Automation" is not necessary for any controllers shown in the GUI. I have keep the CC# the same as in my other instrument"Dark Petals" so their is a consistence throughout my Plug Ins.
Dissonant Bowl
A mixing bowl with a pleasing dissonant tone across five octaves, struck with a felt beater.
Dolan Piano
A carefully recorded Yamaha C7 that allows you to blend different microphone signals to shape your own piano sound for different music genres or scoring situations
Mom’s 1974 Baby Grand
My mother's 1974 Wm. Knabe & Co. baby grand piano, captured to be enjoyed forever.
Prepared Toy Piano
Three libraries in one pack for latest Kontakt version."Felt Toy Piano", "Prepared Toy Piano" and "Scrambled Toy Piano".
The Helm Yamaha Tack Piano
Recorded with 3 dynamic layers. Staccato and Legato articulations available via keyswitches.
Patronus Station
This is a Sampler Patch created from the sounds of Tehran's Subway System. The instrument is a pad that can be used like a pluck also and there are three additional Soundscapes.
Tack Pizzicato Violin
Super quiet pizzicato violin technique where rosin is applied to the finger and the pluck is made by pulling your tacky finger off the string, making a little "tack" sound. Pretty.... and charming.
Sussed Perk Beta 01
Testing outside the boundaries... Basically I'm seeing if people want complex faders, or multiple envelopes...
Woodland Piano
The Woodland Piano is a multi-layered and multi-miked instrument with four playable articulations (Normal, Felt, Muted, and Plucked) and several release triggers and pedal sounds
The Grand Toy Piano
More than just a toy; an instrument, experiment, and lesson in sampling optimization......
Guitar Tremolo Pads
A soft and irregularly plucked classical guitar from LIDL! Great for underscoring, movement or just as a basis for a pad in general......
Metallurgic Alchemy
Metallurgic Alchemy is a synth drone library, based on granular synthesised metallic-like textures, with performance functionality built in....
Studio One
A beautiful Steinway Model B recorded in 'Studio One' of the Royal Northern College of Music.
Quarantine Piano
A refurbished Yamaha U3 sampled with a pair of Aston Starlights in vintage mode and a Rode NT2000.
The Emperor & King
A Bechstein upright from the late 1800s recorded with a Sontronics Apollo 2 stereo ribbon mic.
Schulmerich Handbells
Schulmerich handbells recorded with U47 clone running through a Rascal Audio Two-R preamp.
Introducing Pianobook Artists!
Pianobook is a global community of nearly 500 contributors, who have together created over 1000 virtual instruments on our website for Kontakt and the free Decent Sampler. To celebrate the success of the platform, we have started a new label called Pianobook Artists- where we seek to reward our best contributors by giving them the […]
WE ACTUALLY DROPPED A PIANO
September, Aberdeen, 2020, well… seeing as it is 2020 expect anything. Every week on our YouTube channel we perform a “pianodrop” to coincide with releasing the next batch of instruments. A quick highlights video showing off new sounds and some of our old-favourites. The thing is we needed a cool ident for it so… why […]
January Highlights
New Year’s Honours List (Pianobook Edition) Christian highlights some of the key contributors to Pianobook from last year. Here’s to an exciting year ahead! Congratulations to all the honours list: Simon Fyffe Egor Kurdello David Hilowitz Jon Meyer Joshua Meltzer Stephen Tallamy Andrew Ward Angus Roberts-Carey Christopher Scullion Conner Sawchuk Andrew Finch Keith Theodosiou Pete […]
Pianobook – THE HONOURS LIST
Featured in the 2019 honours list: Andrew Ward: 1911 Bechstein Upright (most download piano in 2019) Angus Roberts-Carey: Sonva Piano, Sonva Upright, Infinite Guitar (plus Kontakt versions of 9000ft Piano and Tracked Piano) Christopher Scullion: Tatak – Toy Piano, Tatak – Felt Piano (MVP and Full), Tatak – Muted Felt Piano Conner Sawchuk: Decrepit Toy […]
September Highlights
CELEBRATING ONE YEAR OF PIANOBOOK In September 2018, Pianobook was officially launched with a Prologue video from Christian. One year later and we now have a website with a massive sample library of community contributed pianos and other instruments. Upright pianos, grand pianos, felted and prepared pianos plus a range of other interesting pads and […]
August Highlights
MAKING MUSIC FROM POOH? Whether the term “Pooh Breakfast” has anything to do with the sound of 29 Bagpipes tuning up is up to you! Christian teases the upcoming Pianbook competition and walks through another set of submissions to Pianobook. PROGRAMMING ROUND ROBINS WITH A KALIMBA Christian discovers the simplicity of programming […]
June Highlights
KONTAKT MASTERCLASS We began June with a beast of a masterclass with Jonjo and Leo from Spitfire Audio on how they go about creating a piano instrument in Kontakt. AIR PIANO Following on from the recording session in May, Christian unveiled the Air Piano, along with an in-depth look into the way […]
May Highlights
Rusty Gates Who would have thought that a Rusty Gate would have inspired such great creativity! Whilst walking through the most downloaded Pianobook pianos, Christian set a competition to see if the community could create instruments out of some raw audio clips recorded on holiday. Check out the video explaining it all below: […]
April Highlights
What an incredible response we got to the Piano Day special – so great we broke Dropbox and had to rapidly move samples over to S3 to allow everyone to download the awesome pianos from the community. A little tweet from Ólafur Arnalds may have helped bump up the numbers! Happy #pianoday here […]
Piano Day 2019
Pianos are unique instruments: both a set of complex mechanics and a beautiful piece of furniture. The complexity of building a piano means that no two pianos are completely alike. Different manufacturers have their own methods of building pianos, which leads to a whole range of tonal differences. As a piece of furniture, they […]
Monolith
Quick Start If you are already familiar with the monolith system and just want to get the latest templates you can get them here. Logic Pro recording template Kontakt, SFZ and DecentSampler template Monolith System planner To learn more about the system and how to use it, you can jump to the various sections here: […]