Piano Instrument VST Plugins

Four Classic Piano Sounds, Sampled and Modeled with Perfection

Stage Piano includes multi-layer sample sets collected from the world’s most impressive acoustic pianos that cost more than a car! With Stage Piano, you can get the best and most sought-after acoustic pianos inside a VST/AU/AAX-compatible plugin host. The AIR engineering team has painstakingly sampled each piano model in Germany to make sure they captured the natural beauty of the instrument’s acoustic characteristics.

Yamaha C7: This 7-foot-wide piano is one of the world’s most in-demand models for the stage and live recording. You can usually find this piano in well-equipped and expensive studios, jazz venues, and hotel lobbies thanks to its rich tone and “just right” natural volume in various spaces.

Steinway D: Since 1853, Steinway Pianos have been famous for their warm, rich, and resonant tones. The Steinway D is known for its unparalleled quality, craftsmanship, and nuanced playability. At over 9 feet wide, it’s also one of the most expansive and expensive pianos you could ever buy—it’s so big it takes up a whole room!

Bechstein Upright: This legendary piano crafted in Germany has one of the richest histories of all pianos. Bechstein upright and grand pianos use every well-known piano manufacturing process, resulting in instruments capable of subtle nuance and detailed responsiveness. This Bechstein upright model will have you playing classic piano tunes with one of the most iconic piano tones ever.

Workstation: The workstation model was taken directly from AIR’s highly acclaimed Xpand!2 sample library and features a “classic” synthesizer workstation style tone with a harder transient attack and more high-end color. It is perfect for getting the piano sound you’ve heard on thousands of records of the 90s, 00s, and today. This model is your typical “workhorse” piano with a sound that will cut through any mix!

Elegant and Expressive Piano Sounds Sampled from World-Renowned Instruments

Experience the joy of playing the most acclaimed pianos in history with brilliant multi-sampled sounds that offer you access to the original instrument’s sonic characteristics and timbre options. With its elegant interface, you can control the piano model’s dynamics, age, and even the lid position and mechanics of the hammers. Stage Piano also gives you access to attack and release amplitude control, bringing your concert to life. In addition, Stage Piano includes a powerful FX section allowing you to add creative timbres to your tones.

Craft Your Piano Sounds Using Multiple Models, Articulation Controls, And Colorful Effects

Put the Pedal to the Metal!

We built Stage Piano with piano players in mind, whether they are on-stage or in the studio. The plugin includes plenty of articulations and foot pedal parameters that give you the natural expression of a real acoustic piano. Each sample set offers separate pedal parameters that will let you adjust the level of sustain resonance, the hammer falls, staccato release, and soft pedal to create a genuinely accurate piano performance.

Built-In Effects Engine to Color and Stylize your Piano Sounds

Stage Piano includes multiple effects like Flavor timbre control, EQ, compression, rich reverb, and delay. Create brilliant shimmers, dark haunting echoes, or spacey washed pianos with a cutting-edge effects engine built into the instrument.

Unlock these sounds in Akai MPC/FORCE for FREE

Purchase this plugin and you’ll get the ability to unlock it within your Akai Professional MPC / FORCE Standalone hardware as well as using within your favorite DAW. Seamlessly move productions from standalone hardware to your DAW with the same great sounds.

Features

• Four world-class piano sample sets captured from the Yamaha C7 Grand, Steinway D Grand, Bechstein Upright, and Classic “Workstation” sounds
• Control hammer falls, sustain, staccato, and soft pedals to craft the perfect piano performance
• Built-in multi-effects engine with compressor, EQ, delay, reverb, lo-fi effects, and more
• Digital modeling technology is used in conjunction with samples to create sympathetic resonance and advanced control over the detailed sound of the piano
• Support for VST, AU, AAX and MPC/FORCE standalone formats
• Purchase unlocks plug-in on three devices including PC, MAC (VST, AU, AAX) and Standalone (MPC & FORCE)

Pick any 2 Addictive Keys Instruments

Two is always better than one! The Duo Bundle lets you pick any two Addictive Keys instruments and save big.

Instruments to choose from:

• Addictive Keys: Studio Grand
• Addictive Keys: Mark One
• Addictive Keys: Modern Upright
• Addictive Keys: Electric Grand

About the Addictive Keys: Duo Bundle

The Addictive Keys product line features a variety of outstanding keyboard instruments. Like the majestic Studio Grand or the lively Electric Grand. Our Duo Bundle lets you pick any two instruments of your choice and save over buying them individually!

Features:

• Includes the full Addictive Keys engine

• Plug-in and Standalone operation

• Pick any 2 instruments of your choice

Addictive Keys

Addictive Keys isn’t just a collection of sampled keyboards.  That’s easy. Anyone can do that. What Addictive Keys does is to capture the soul and essence of great instruments from multiple angles. That’s hard, but Addictive Keys instruments pull it off and make it look effortless.

Addictive Keys brings the world’s most inspiring and interesting keyboard instruments into the studios of songwriters, producers, and music makers.

It’s unique sonic capabilities, smart workflow, fast load-times, and outstanding sound quality are designed to help you stay in the creative flow and to compose great music while you’re in the zone.

Addictive Keys ships with tons of inspiring presets neatly arranged in “ExploreMaps.” Each preset even comes with previews that present the preset in the perfect light. If you’re in a hurry, you can use presets as-is so you don’t lose inspiration. If you’re in the mood to design new sounds, the powerful sound engine gives you great control over each instrument. You can even mix and match microphone setups!

To push the sound design envelope even further, the Addictive Keys engine has outstanding effects and envelopes to take your sound from clear and natural to heavily processed and other-worldly!

Finally, we include a standalone version that runs without requiring any music software. So if you just want to play, you can do so without any hassles

Standalone Mode

Addictive Keys can also work as a standalone instrument, without requiring host music software. This makes it easy to load an instrument, find an inspiring preset, and start playing without having to launch your music software. 

This is perfect when you just want to play without waiting for music software or deal with routing.

About the Piano

The acoustic grand piano was sampled using a total of seven microphones placed in five distinct locations to capture the best of the piano. The microphone positions used are as follows:

• Bass: A condenser microphone placed near the bass strings.
• Hammers: Stereo condenser microphones positioned in front of the hammers.
• Main: Ribbon microphones arranged in stereo in front of the soundboard.
• Room: Condenser microphones positioned six feet away from the piano.
• Back: A condenser microphone placed behind the piano seat.
• Each microphone position has its own volume knob in the plugin.

City recordings: To capture the sounds of the city, we use a stereo recorder to capture various sounds such as airplanes, squares, public works, motorcycles, trains, etc. From these recordings, we selected the best samples to be used as convolution reverb, ultimately creating a plugin that integrates the piano with the cityscape.

In total there are 44 city samples that you can use as convolution reverb.

Presets: Downtown Grand Piano comes with 39 presets divided into the categories: ambient, city-based, and piano. You can also create your own categories and presets within the panel. The ambient presets were created by removing the dry piano signal and experimenting with the wet signal of the convolution reverb. The city-based presets were created by blending the piano and convolution reverb signals to generate a hybrid sound. And the piano presets were exclusively designed using the samples from the acoustic grand piano.

Features

• Recorded at 44.1 kHz / 24 bit with seven microphones
• 6 gradual velocity layers for the piano
• Control for the piano’s hammer release
• The grand piano is made with 1800 samples
• 44 city sounds for convolution reverb
• 39 presets divided into three categories
• Saturation, reverb, stereo width, limiter, and delay effects.
• Customizable velocity curve
• Multi-band EQ, XY filters, lowpass, and highpass
• 2.8GB of space

WHAT’S NEW IN VERSION 2

Our main modeling engine was rebuilt, and now it allows us to do thing we had in mind for more than a year.
The result is a modeled instrument that is not distinguishable from a real one.

Spectral modeled Reed-EP
The first Spectral Modeled reed EP based on real samples entirely rebuilt by modeling. Offering the real sound and feel of the real instrument in just 45MB.

PRODUCT DETAILS

• Spectral modeled full range reed EP
• No extra purchases needed (like Kontakt, UVI, etc) or any other 3rd. party player.
• Ready to be loaded into major DAWs (Cubase, Logic Pro, GarageBand, Cakewalk, Reaper, BitWig, Nuendo, FLstudio, etc)
• No layer switching (Smooth velocity curve).
• Phaser, Reverb and Color adjusment.
• Releases and velocity controls.
• Win 32/64 bits and Mac VST/AU/Standalone versions included
• Just 30MB installed.
• No library installation required.
• No online activation required.

SPECTRAL MODELED REED-BASED EP
Reed200 is our second spectral modeled instrument. We can say it’s all that we dreamed about. Clean and responsive timbre made out of the real model. Stacking up to 600 pure sinewaves, we achieved a perfect and accurate timbre reproducing the sound that a reed-ep generates on the line output. (Also we included a cabinet and drive emulator)

As in our Markus 88, we did most of the jobs manually. Despite the deep spectrum analysis we used to decode the timbre DNA, we focused on recreating the real feel of pushing down a key in a real model.

THE REED TIMBRE RECREATION
We discovered the Reed timbre is kind of unique. After doing our first modeled electric piano, Markus 88, we can tell electric reeds has some characteristics on the spectrum that makes it more dirty and punchy.

What we’ve learned is that the main difference between tines and reed is the perfect octaves harmonics (meaning 12 semitones up, 24, 36, 48, etc). Envelope for those partials are quite louder than in a tine-based EP and this is one of the main secrets of reed-ep timbre

You can play a bit with this characteristic with our “Color” slider on our main interface.

WHAT EXACTLY IS SPECTRAL MODELING?
Every sound in nature can be decomposed into simple sine waves. From a bird tweet to a trumpet note. Spectral modeling is the process of analyzing and creating a sound by stacking simple sine waves.

According to Julius O. Smith (Standford) Spectral modeling provides a sound representation much closer to the perception of sound by the brain because your ear and brain are in fact spectral decoders.

INTRODUCING MODEL T – Spectral modeled 80s EP

A classic of the late 70’s and 80’s. We recreated a classic 80s EP by Spectral Modeling, offering the real sound and feel of the simplest electromechanical piano in the history in just 30MB.

Carefully crafted. Detailed recreation of every single mechanical noise and main timbre. No velocity swithching since is not sample-based. Available for Mac & Win, Standalone and Plug-in versions.

PRODUCT DETAILS

• Spectral modeled full range EP
• Included Drive and Reverb FXs -Sustain activation option. -Releases, mechanical noises and velocity controls.
• No layer switching (Smooth velocity curve).
• No extra purchases needed (like Kontakt, UVI, etc) or any other 3rd. party player.
• Ready to be loaded into major DAWs (Cubase, Logic Pro, GarageBand, Cakewalk, Reaper, BitWig, Nuendo, FLstudio, etc)
• Win 32/64 bits and Mac VST/AU/Standalone versions included
• Just 30MB installed.
• No library installation required.
• No online activation required.

MODEL T SOUND

This was one of the most affordable and common eletromechanical piano produced in the late 70’s. Based on reeds, it generates a warm, bell-like but dark tone. It does not includes sustain pedal, due his simple mechanics and easily replaceable pieces. But we included the option to activate the sustain pedal on our modeled recreation.

Also we recreated mechanics sound, very present in every sound. (Controlable individually on our instrument)

AN 80S CLASSIC

Late in the 70’s was launched a simple yet powerful electromechanical piano. Manufactured betwen 1977 and 1982, this classic electr-mechanical piano was one of the simplest EPs in the history. Based on reeds, ands sticky pads, the it offers a “Reed” like sound but with a much more present mechanical noises due the proximity of the mechanics to the keyboard itself. It does not offers a sustain pedal or volume/tone controls. Despite this his tone makes extremely effect-friendly as many of the vintage EPs

WHAT EXACTLY IS SPECTRAL MODELING?

Every sound in nature can be decomposed into simple sine waves. From a bird tweet to a trumpet note. Spectral modeling is the process of analyzing and creating a sound by stacking simple sine waves.

According to Julius O. Smith (Standford) Spectral modeling provides a sound representation much closer to the perception of sound by the brain because your ear and brain are in fact spectral decoders.

A Grand Reimagining: Open the lid on a totally modernized piano VST experience.

From the authentic to the impossible, unlock premium piano sounds for cinematic score & library composition, immersive game soundscapes, and slick modern DAW production with an intuitive & inspiring piano experience that transcends virtual instruments.

Piano timbres unheard: Augmented GRAND PIANO alters the sound of a timeless instrument into something new. From galaxy-spanning granular sustain to felt tones twisted and transformed with racks of studio gear, take your piano as off-piste as you dare.

Production-ready sounds: Theatrical concert grand richness, platinum cinematic textures, evolving metallic atmospheres, barely-recognizable hybrid effects; whatever your style, Augmented GRAND PIANO can make the piano work for you.

Construct your sound: Customize every aspect of your piano timbre with 2 distinct layers, each including 2 sound sources, letting you weave your own compound textures with whatever combination of samples and synthesis you need.

Transformative morphing: Animate your tracks with timbres that flow between familiar & far-out, acoustic & synthetic, pure & transformed. The powerful Morph control lets you move between your sound layers and make broad changes to multiple aspects of your sound with one control.

Instant expression: Customize and interact with Augmented GRAND PIANO’s sound intuitively with its array of straightforward macro controls and responsive connections to velocity and aftertouch, ensuring that expressive dynamics, articulation, and timbral control is only ever a click away.

Deep sound design: Augmented GRAND PIANO is your shortcut to compelling piano sounds, but its advanced panel lets you go deeper when your project calls for it. Add complex modulation, keep it moving with smart arpeggiation, and fine-tune your sound layers in one place.

Morphing: a full piano continuum – It starts with a grand piano; where it ends is up to you.

A detailed library of authentic & abstract piano samples. A built-in synthesis engine with 4 powerful modes. Numerous forms of modulation, expression, and FX. Augmented GRAND PIANO’s central Morph control lets you seamlessly move between all of these aspects with a single sweep.

Sampling: The rich sound of a Steinway Model D, the most famous grand piano of all time, expertly recorded in a host of weird & wonderful ways; with felt damping, with ping pong balls, with a vintage tape machine, and more. A practical piano sample library with an experimental edge.

Synthesis: Add sub depth to your piano bass, intensify your piano chords with in-your-face noisy textures, or gnarl your soft melodies with dissonant harmonic reflections. Augmented GRAND PIANO features 4 modes of synthesis: Virtual Analog, Granular, Wavetable, and Harmonic.

Sound sculpting: Simplicity – Discover inspiring, refreshing piano sounds in seconds.

Augmented GRAND PIANO is designed to be simple to use, giving you maximum control over your sound with minimal hassle. Interact with a handful of intuitive controls and enjoy ever-evolving sounds that you’ll keep coming back to.

1. Morph: Make sweeping changes to multiple elements in your sound with the Morph control. Move between your sample & synthesis sound layers, and simultaneously tweak up to 8 assignable parameters for dramatic timbral changes within one preset.
2. FX, Delay, Reverb: The final piece to Augmented GRAND PIANO’s sonic puzzle. The dedicated Delay and Reverb master FX add space and time-based ambience to your sound, plus you can assign 2 custom FX per sound layer for your own flavor of coloration
3. Color, Time, Motion: If your sound needs a little more, a little less, or just something a little different, these 3 macro controls affect things like envelope time, filtering, modulations, and more, offering quick & instinctive control over the shape and character of your sound.

Deeper sound design: Detailed control over your piano sounds – when you need it.

Underneath its simple layout and quick controls, Augmented GRAND PIANO offers all the flexibility and customization you need to truly make it your own. From sound layers to intricate modulation, it’s all right here.

It all starts with Augmented GRAND PIANO’s sound engines. Two layers, each containing two engines, for a total of 4 fully-customizable sound sources. With these 4 sound sources, you can assign up to 2 sample engines and 2 synthesis engines, then adjust details like filter cutoff and envelope times.

Like you’ve never heard it before

These aren’t just high-quality samples. Augmented GRAND PIANO’s library features detailed recordings of a late ‘80s Steinway Model D, widely considered to be the greatest grand piano of all time.

And that’s only the beginning. The library features familiar & authentic articulations suited to both classical & contemporary music, but it also contains a variety of unique outside-the-box recordings. Piano played with ping pong balls, with a bow, with paper in between the strings. We also went one step further by processing these sounds through tape machines, pedals, studio gear, and more.

Even before morphing, modulation, or FX, Augmented GRAND PIANO ranges from authentic piano to sounds that simply aren’t possible with the traditional instrument.

A perfect production piano library:  Evocative & professional piano sound in seconds.

Augmented GRAND PIANO comes loaded with over 300 mix-ready sounds, sorted by style, timbre, and sound designer. Unlock the inspiring piano sounds you’ve always wanted, from emotive film score tones to otherworldly video game ambience, razor-sharp synth-infused sounds to delicate modern ballad textures.

Main Features

• Virtual Instruments playable in a DAW (Live, FL Studio, Logic,…) or standalone with a MIDI keyboard.
• Dynamic hybrid piano instrument
• 2 Layers within each preset; each layer contains 2 customizable sound sources
• Detailed piano sample library with expressive and contemporary articulations
  • Real piano samples
  • Processed piano samples
  • Additional abstract samples
• Flexible synth engines
  • Virtual analog
  • Granular
  • Harmonic
  • Wavetable
• Morph control moves between Layers A and B, and/or affecting up to 8 custom destinations
• 7 additional macros: Time, Color, Motion, FX A, FX B, Reverb, Delay
• 2 LFOs, 2 Function Generators, 2 Random Generators, 4 Keyboard modulation sources, dedicated Vibrato & Tremolo
• 2 FX slots per layer with 14 FX including ParamEQ, Bitcrusher, BL-20 Flanger, and more
• Dedicated Delay and Reverb sends with 5 spatial/time-based algorithms
• Built-in 16-step arpeggiator
• 300 factory presets included

Spectral Modelled Grand Piano

MetaPiano is the first Spectral Modeled Grand Piano out there. It was built upon real sound captures from a Japanese Concert Grand Piano, and meticulously rebuilt by math algorithms. It’s so realistic you won’t believe it is not the real instrument. And so lightweight you can email it.

The Process 

It all started with the search for the perfect piano to analyze its sound. Sampleson fell in love with a Japanese Concert Grand Piano and deeply recorded it, capturing every nuance to feed our spectral analysis with high-quality audio sources. A peaceful studio located in Patagonia gave them the noiseless scenario they needed to capture crystal-clear waveforms with top industry Mics and Preamps. Then the real process begins. A custom-made algorithm disassembles the audio and extracts the main characteristics for each note and noise. Finally, their Spectral Engine 2.0 generates the sound every time you play it, making every note unique and irreplaceable since it’s created on the fly.

Hyper-detailed Spectral Modeled Grand Piano 

MetaPiano was made upon Spectral Modeling, a technique that provides realistic sounds since it’s based on real samples and not hypothetical approaches like physical modelling.
It sounds real because it is real: sound is created the same way in nature (stacking simple sinewaves together). This is why it feels organic and warm.

Sampleson mapped more than 64 groups of timbre components (releases, hammer, key noises, main timbre, resonance, etc) and recreated them by Spectral Modeling, archiving a realistic and warm sound in only 60 MB, and with very low CPU usage.

Full Decays (No Loops)

Thanks to the Spectral Engine, MetaPiano reproduces the full length of the real notes without loops. You’ll hear decays for a minute and more on lower notes.

No Velocity Sweeping

MetaPiano is built upon the full dynamics of the real instrument. There’s no velocity switching because there are no layers or regions or anything that old sampling techniques needs.

Features

• Spectral modelled 88 notes grand piano.
• 60MB.
• Low CPU usage.
• Based on real samples.
• No velocity-switching.
• Scalable HD interface.
• Impulse response-based Ambient Reverb
• Master gain
• Wood resonance
• Width(stereo to mono) control
• Dynamic velocity adjustment

CP-80 Electric Grand Piano – Acoustic. Electric. Inspired

With three distinct sonic characteristics captured in seven different ways, you’ll have no shortage of great sounds at your fingertips.

About Electric Grand

This unique instrument combines three distinct characters (acoustic hammers, direct line output, and amplified output) captured in seven different ways. When combined with the powerful Addictive Keys engine, Electric Grand becomes an extraordinarily inspiring instrument that is suitable for anything from indie rock and pop to house to R’n’B ballads.

Its unmistakable sound can be heard on classic albums from U2, Peter Gabriel and Abba, as well as contemporary artists like keane and Mike Snow.”

The Instrument and its Presets

Yamaha CP-80 Electric Grand Piano:

Our Electric Grand instrument features a meticulously sampled Yamaha CP-80, an electro-acoustic instrument that was produced from the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. 

Electric grand pianos have hammers and strings just like acoustic pianos. However, unlike acoustic pianos, these pianos have pickups under the strings that feed the sound to an amplifier—just like an electric guitar or bass. The combination of acoustic, electric, and amplified sources let you craft unique piano-like textures that that are more harmonically complex and interesting than a typical acoustic piano. 

The Addictive Keys engine plays back the instrument with incredible detail and the advanced studio effects accurately model the tremolo and tone controls of the original instrument. In addition, it lets you push the sonic boundaries beyond what the original instrument could accomplish.

We recorded the CP-80 in several ways to maximize options for our outstanding team of sound designers.

Direct (Line Out):

• We recorded the direct output cleanly as well as through a well-maintained vintage Roland Dimension-D hardware chorus. 

Amplified Output:

• We played the CP-80 through a Music Man 112 RD tube combo amp with three close microphones and one stereo ambience microphone set further back to capture the room’s sound. 

Acoustic Strings:

• Although rarely heard on albums, we loved the acoustic sound of the CP-80’s strings and recorded it in stereo. 

These seven different recording setups gave our sound designers the ability to craft all kinds of amazing presets. You too can easily create inspiring presets that are uniquely yours.

We Recorded Using the Following:

Music Man 112 RD combo amp (Close Mic): 

• Telefunken U47 Tube Condenser 
• Coles 4038 Ribbon 
• Shure SM57 Dynamic 

Ambient (Room) Recording: 

• Neumann SM69 Stereo Microphone 

Direct Output: 

• Clean Line Output 
• Line Output through Roland Dimension D 

Acoustic Strings: 

• Sela T25 Stereo Microphone

Features

• Vintage CP-80 Electric Grand Piano
• 3 Distinct, blendable characteristics
• 7 Different recording perspectives

This Bundle Features Xpand!2, DB-33 and Vacuum Classic!

►Xpand!2

Four on the Floor

Xpand!2 is a multitimbral workstation offering four active sound slots, or parts, per patch. Each part is provided with its own MIDI channel, Note Range (Zone), Mix, Arpeggiation, Modulation, and Effects settings—an excellent method for creating individual parts.

Harnessing the four parts together to build one amazing Patch is where Xpand!2 reveals its true power. The Voice Mode for each part can be set to polyphonic or monophonic.

Polyphonic parts can have up to 64 voices; monophonic parts offer First, Last, Highest, or Lowest priority making it easy to designate a bass, lead, or solo instrument.

• • This is an Audio Plugin – It REQUIRES a HOST Software
  • THIS PRODUCT REQUIRES THE USE OF ILOK

MAIN FEATURES:

• Four-channel multitimbral operation
• Up to four stereo instrument parts per patch
• Up to 64 voices per part; Mono or Poly voice modes
• Smart Knobs provide intuitive sound editing
• Easy Edit Knobs control the entire patch at once
• Two digital effects processors; 50 editable effect types
• Individual arpeggiation control for each part
• Multiple sound generation engines:
• Subtractive Synthesis
• FM Synthesis
• Tonewheels
• Sample Playback
• 2500+ total presets

Sounds Galore

Using everything from wavetables and FM synthesis to sample playback, the expert sound design team at Air Music Tech has carefully created thousands of ready-to-play Xpand!2 patches.

Creating your own is easy, too. Parts can be quickly browsed and are conveniently sorted into 29 categories, offering a simple path to find just what you’re looking for.

Smart Knobs and Easy Edits

Six smart knobs are provided for custom-tweaking your Xpand!2 sounds. Each knob changes function depending on the part selected, offering hands-on control of the most critical sound elements.

Select the Easy mode, and all six knobs now control all four of the common parts in a patch simultaneously for quickly performing those crucial edits.

And of course, all of your edits can be saved for instant recall.

Major Modulation

Express yourself with powerful performance features! Pitch Bend wheel and Aftertouch (pressure) modulation assignments can be made independently for each part.

Modulation rates can be tempo sync’d or free-wheeling. Numerous modulation destinations are provided, and the WAVE destination parameters are different from part to part, providing unique Xpand!2 sound-shaping capabilities.

Advanced Arpeggiation

Keep things moving with advanced arpeggiation. Simply set the Rate—including dotted and triplet values—and then select the Mode.

Using the Latch switch allows the arpeggiator to continue to play, even when your hands leave the keyboard. Each Xpand!2 part is provided with its own arpeggiator.

Many parts such as Action Pads and Loops will automatically activate the Arpeggiator, as it forms an integral part of the sound.

Dynamic Effects Duo

Xpand!2 includes two independent effect processors with fifty studio-grade effects, ranging from rich reverbs to the mind-bending Chaos Delay.

When selecting a new effect type, Xpand!2 will instantly change the edit knob functions to provide accurate control of every effect. The output of FX1 can be fed into the input of FX2 to create advanced “cascade-style” effects.

►DB-33

There are very few truly unique instrumental sounds in the world of music. Sounds so distinct, so compelling, so immediately identifiable and genuine that you just have to have it.

Nothing else will do. “Close” won’t do. “Almost” won’t cut it. “Approximately” will instantly brand you as a shallow imposter.

One of these really great, unmistakable instrumental sounds is the tonewheel organ, such as the classic Hammond B3. The Hammond B3 was used by many great rock, soul and jazz artists in the 1960’s to 1980’s.

Unforgettable musicians like Stevie Winwood, Jon Lord of Deep Purple, Jimmy Smith and Richard “Groove” Holmes.

Great music, great sound, created on an absolutely great instrument. That’s what you want. And that’s what DB-33 Tonewheel Organ gives you.

MAIN FEATURES:

• AIR-proprietary vintage organ model
• Custom designed, extra-realistic convolution rotary cabinet, also usable as a stand-alone effect
• Tube overdrive emulation
• Includes over 120 presets

DB-33 Tonewheel Organ is a virtual organ that recreates the sounds and controllability of classic tonewheel organs such as the Hammond B3, and the rotary-speaker cabinets they are often played through.

It includes 122 preset sounds plus an extra-realistic convolution rotary cabinet and tube overdrive emulation.

The rotary-speaker cabinet can also be used as an effect in its own right on an audio track.

►Vacuum Classic

Vacuum Classic is a monophonic vintage synthesizer featuring Vacuum Tube Synthesis with vacuum tube circuit modeling that perfectly captures the crunchy, warm sound of the analog era.

With analog oscillators, multiple filters and envelopes and built-in audio effects, Vacuum lets you dive deep into subtractive synthesis to recreate those sought-after analog sounds from the 70s and 80s.

Tweak the switches, knobs and dials to program anything from basses, leads, pads or unique sound effects.

Vacuum gives you TWO Vacuum Tube Oscillators. A nice touch with the four available wave shapes is that rather than just picking one, Vacuum lets you ‘morph’ between them. The output of the oscillators goes through a mixer, where you can apply drive/distortion and ring modulation, before being passed through high- and low pass filters.

Included are a wide range of pre-sets designed by highly-acclaimed sound designers Richard Devine and Mark Ovenden. Covering everything from Leads, Pads, Bass, Arpeggios, Percussive, and FX sounds this library provides instant inspiration for anyone to tweak to their contentment.

The filters provide a smooth sound, but each offers a saturation control if you prefer a more aggressive sound. A really nice touch can be found in the ‘age’ knobs, where you can set an amount of pitch drift to apply to the oscillators, or the quantity of dust that might make the synth sound old and noisy.

The Age function provides Drift and Dust controls adjusting the age from oscillator drift to crackling controls to slightly inaccurate keyboard triggering/pitch for that truly authentic hardware experience sought out by Synth lovers.

This is one of the most realistic emulations you’ll hear anywhere!

Vacuum also offers a number of modulation options, including two envelopes, which can be set to retrigger in the settings page. There’s also an on-board arpeggiator.

For a synth plugin, Vacuum sounds surprisingly unlike a synth plugin, exhibiting a real, dirty and analog quality.

The slick vintage synth-styled interface pays homage to some of the best vintage tube synths of the past, powerful and easy to use.

We are very proud to introduce you to Tape Piano 2!

A major update to our hugely successful Tape Piano ( Tapex ) Lofi Piano-Keys VST Loved by music producers across the globe.

Tape Piano 2 Is Now Lighter, Faster, And Packed With more Features… And Getting the right lo-fi Keys in your DAW has never been easier.

We have hopefully succeeded in bringing you a collection of awesome Piano-Key Sounds That are not only perfect for Lo-fi / Chill / HipHop but for most other genres as it has a vast array of phenomenal Presets.

“Lofi Is Here To Stay”

Switch your tracks back to the sound of the earliest commercial recording mediums.

“Multilayer Architecture”

With Tape Piano’s Multilayer Architecture, Now you can Blend all 4 Layers, And make Endless combinations And on top of That Texture Layer will Help you To add Vinyl/Crackle Sounds To make your Pianos more Interesting.

With such versatility, you can recreate any characteristic Sound you could possibly think of.

“No More Automations”

Explore a new approach to the Modulation using Tape Piano’s Flexible MacroSystem.

Instantly identify your mappings with clear color coding and animated visual feedback.

Create anything from a voice that comes in and out at random intervals, effects that fade in and out with perfect, quantized precision In seconds.

“A Complete Powerhouse”

Combine a range of ten high-quality effects, which are also assignable as modulation targets.

Lush Reverbs, Convolution Reverb With the ability to use custom impulse responses, Two Distortion Types, Phaser, Stereo Delay With Filter Controls, Surgical Eq, Bit Crusher, Compressor, And More…

“Professional Preset Browser”

With many included presets, it’s easy to find the perfect starting point for your Next Hit.

Including the original library Of Tapex 1, Categorised into distinct themes, these presets can be used on all sorts of music genres, “Not just Lofi”

“Scratch Designer”

Scratch Designer, Is A Fast, Easy Way To Get Realistic Vinyl Scratches.

Create Vinyl Scratches As simple As Adding Random Points on Scratch Designer Pitch Table.

Always Stay In Key

With Tape Piano’s Built-in Scaler, Choose any Key and Scale and Never Play A Wrong Note Again.

Tape Piano 2 Key Features:

• 4 Samplers, Each with, filters, envelopes, reverse, pan, stereo width, and tuning.
• Texture Layer can load samples, drag and drop onto the sampler or select from the Bonus Pack That shipped With your Tape Piano.
• Delve deeper into the sound design by assigning Mod Envelopes / LFOs to almost any control.
• Two Master Filters with 10 popular filter models for each one.
• FX Modules ( Algorithmic, Convolution Reverb – Stereo Delay – Soft & Hard Distortion – 8Bit Degrader – 2 Band Phaser –
• Compressor – Gate – Surgical Eq. )
• Scaler With 17 Popular Scales.
• Over 200, Categorised & Diverse Factory presets + Tapex 1 Presets. (Shareable Patches)
• Preset Randomizer.
• Modulation Matrix Page with sources and targets all over the instrument.
• Surgical EQ is designed to instantly deliver clean and transparent EQ to your tracks
• Highly Compressed Sample Library ( Tape Piano 2 Is Only 300 M.b On Your Disk. )
• Fully resizable Vector / HD interface.
• Get inspired with Realistic Reels & Raining Animations.
• Large output meters And peak level readout.
• 4 Octave Piano keyboard and ±24 Transpose Control.
• Undo / Redo Controls.

A Stunning Fazioli Concert Grand Piano for Kontakt

The “Fazioli” is a highly sought after grand piano, by the makers of world’s most expensive grand pianos. Its considered by many to be the best of the best when it comes to concert grand pianos.

Some grand pianos start to get a little muddy when you go to the lower registers, but the Fazioli stays sparkling and crystal clear even when you hit the low end of the keys.

“Silk” features a Fazioli recorded with close and stage mics so you can mix and match to create your own desired sound.

MAIN FEATURES

• A highly sought after concert grand piano
• Sounds crystal clear in the lows to the highs
• Up to 76 velocity layers per note
• 16GB of content (compressed down to 6GB using Kontakt’s lossless file compression)
• Two mics to choose from – close and stage
• A unique sound compared to other grand pianos
• Note: Requires the Full Retail Version of Kontakt 4.2.4.5 or higher (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player)

Recorded in 24Bit /96kHz with up to 76 Velocity Layers!

The Fazioli piano was recorded for Silk at a high level of real layers per note – around 30 40 layers per note.

It sounded great with just this, but we decided to add another 20-30 more layers to the mid/top end of the piano where you are likely to hear more fast/consecutively played notes, to add as much variation and detail as possible!

Technical Specifications and Requirements

Note: Requires the Full Retail Version of Kontakt 4.2.4.5 or higher (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player)

• 3114 samples recorded in 96kHz/24-bit
• Up to 76 velocity layers per note
• 6GB file space required (16GB compressed to 6GB using Kontakt’s lossless file compression)

There are very few truly unique instrumental sounds in the world of music. Sounds so distinct, so compelling, so immediately identifiable and genuine that you just have to have it.

Nothing else will do. “Close” won’t do. “Almost” won’t cut it. “Approximately” will instantly brand you as a shallow imposter.

One of these really great, unmistakable instrumental sounds is the tonewheel organ, such as the classic Hammond B3. The Hammond B3 was used by many great rock, soul and jazz artists in the 1960’s to 1980’s.

Unforgettable musicians like Stevie Winwood, Jon Lord of Deep Purple, Jimmy Smith and Richard “Groove” Holmes.

Great music, great sound, created on an absolutely great instrument. That’s what you want. And that’s what DB-33 Tonewheel Organ gives you.

MAIN FEATURES:

• AIR-proprietary vintage organ model
• Custom designed, extra-realistic convolution rotary cabinet, also usable as a stand-alone effect
• Tube overdrive emulation
• Includes over 120 presets

DB-33 Tonewheel Organ is a virtual organ that recreates the sounds and controllability of classic tonewheel organs such as the Hammond B3, and the rotary-speaker cabinets they are often played through.

It includes 122 preset sounds plus an extra-realistic convolution rotary cabinet and tube overdrive emulation.

The rotary-speaker cabinet can also be used as an effect in its own right on an audio track.

Simple & Unique Grand Piano Sounds. The Evanescent – Baby Grand Piano VST will help you get the Piano Sound you’re looking for!

Evanescent is a Sampled Baby Grand Piano Instrument. Recorded by 4 Different Microphones, this gives the ability to manipulate the sound based on Mic Placement. Each Microphone provides a unique Sound & Tone. By blending these 4 Microphone Tones, we are able to provide some Unique Piano Combinations!

PRO TOOLS NOT SUPPORTED

With Evanescents light & easy-to-use interface, you will have no problems finding a preset or creating your own sounds altogether. With streamlining your productions in mind, we kept everything, well, simple!

Minimal FX allows you to use the FX you’re already familiar with (let’s face it, we all do anyway), quickly have full control over each Piano Microphone & easily browse presets!

Download Includes:

• VST3 (Windows)
• VST3 & AU (Mac)
• Easy Install Guide
• 10 Piano Presets
• Compatible with all DAWs (excluding Pro-Tools)
• PLEASE NOTE: Not Compatible with Pro Tools

The interface has 3 main sections:

• Top: FX In-Depth Adjustments + Preset Browser
  • Here you will find all of your FX Parameters + your Preset Browser. Easily browse, adjust & tweak your sounds in this section.
• Middle: Piano/Sampler Adjustments
  • This section contains the Sampler Engines for your Piano Instruments. Quickly edit your samples to create the sound you’re looking for.
• Bottom: FX Quick Adjustments
  • Linked to the FX with the same name in TOP Section, these are an even faster way to add FX & get an idea of your sound.

Evanescent is a Lightweight that hits like a Heavyweight! What we’re trying to say is it uses minimal CPU but still packs a big punch. With a quick, easy & painless install (thanks to our easy to follow Install Guide), you will be creating something fresh in no time!

Let’s all try to create something new, something original, something SPECIAL. We hope Evanescent can help you accomplish this!

Authentic Tone, Action and Feel.

The Lounge Lizard EP-4 plug-in delivers authentic vintage electric piano sounds in an everything-you-need package.

In the Studio

When time matters, simply pick from more than 100 custom electric piano presets. But when sound exploration is on the program, players will dig the real-time controls over hammer hardness, tine colour and decay, damper noise, and pickup placement for an unsurpassed level of customization.

Live on Stage

Gigging musicians will appreciate Lounge Lizard’s small memory footprint, instant preset recalls, and stability. Furthermore, the huge library of classic electric piano sounds as well as the complete selection of effects makes it easy to build a set list and get the perfect tone for each song.

Alive Beneath Your Fingers

There is something quite immersive when a connection develops between the player and the instrument. Whether it’s the perfectly smooth velocity progression or the interactive reaction to your performance, Lounge Lizard makes that connection happen.

Beyond the Electric Piano

Lounge Lizard achieves convincing electric piano tones with less than twenty synth parameters. That’s a quite a feat by itself, but pushed further, these parameters reveal a realm of other tones. Organs, bells, chimes, leads are all featured in the preset library’s Experimental folder.

Custom Tones

Even though famous players shared the same brand and models, they were all achieving their own signature sound. Nevertheless, that usually meant spending many hours under the hood with screwdrivers, wrenches, or even a solder iron. What’s fun with Lounge Lizard is that whether you’re looking to emulate a particular sound or simply find your own, all those tweaks are just a few knob turns away!

• NEW Factory Library – The completely renewed factory library features the classic electric piano sounds as well as over 200 gig- and mix-ready custom electric pianos making good use of the compressor, equalizer, and multi-effect processor.
• NEW Compressor and Equalizer – These new additions are perfect to add punch and definition to your sound, letting you cut through any dense mix or stage.
• NEW Character Control – The new Character control provides five classic studio and stage signal path emulations – that’s the cabinet, pre-amp, microphone, and recorder chain that follows the piano’s output – to easily snug fit your electric piano part into your track.
• NEW Limiter – The new output limiter protects your ears and monitors during experimentation with the piano’s physical modelling parameters while providing a maximum of distortion-free dynamics.
• NEW Streamlined Interface – Redesigned from the ground up, the new interface now divides Lounge Lizard EP-4 into three panels: Play presents shortcuts to the main piano and effect parameters including bypass switches for quick edits; Edit lets you get under the hood and voice the piano to taste; while FX supplies equalizer, compressor, multi-effect, and reverb processors for final shaping duties.
• NEW Bank and Program Manager – Lounge Lizard EP-4’s new manager allows for simple and efficient organization, backup, and sharing of your sounds.
• UPDATED Overhauled Effects – Reinvigorated, polished, and tuned especially for the electric piano, Lounge Lizard EP-4’s multi-effect processor features our best sounding chorus, delay, phaser, flanger, distortion, notch filter, wah-wah, auto-wah, and reverb to date!
• NEW Native 64-­bit Audio Unit (AU) and VST Plug-ins – Lounge Lizard EP-4 now runs in native 64-bit on Mac OS X and Windows making it compatible with the latest sequencers.

MAIN FEATURES

• Entirely based on physical modelling for outstanding sound quality
• Top quality preset library
• Real-time calculation of sound – no samples
• 32-bit floating point internal processing
• Sample rates up to 192 kHz
• Easy sharing of presets
• Unlimited undo/redo capability
• Standard plug-in formats support
• MIDI program change support
• High quality integrated master effects: chorus, delay, and reverb
• Host tempo synchronization
• Dynamic voice allocation and CPU overhead protection

Warm and Intimate Tones

Start playing this warm, beautiful instrument and chances are good that you’ll find yourself still playing it several hours later.

About Mark One

Our Mark One Instrument is based on a Fender Rhodes Mk. 1 electric piano. This king of electric pianos is played through a vintage tube combo amp and captured by rare vintage mics for a sublime sound. The tone can go from a smooth enthralling caress to a searing, crunchy sound that cuts through the densest mix.

The Instrument and its Presets – Fender Rhodes Mk. 1 Stage Piano:

Our Mark One instrument is based on a Fender Rhodes Mk. 1 electric piano. The Rhodes Mk. 1 has been the most popular electric piano for more than four decades and is heard on countless hit records. Rhodes pianos can vary in sound, and this particular instrument was selected for its unmistakable warmth and intimacy. 

While the instrument’s line output can be recorded “direct,” it is often played through an amplifier to add some crunch and character. For this recording, we used a MusicMan 112 RD Fifty 1×12″. Different recording setups can be mixed and matched to give you endless sound design options!

With the tube combo set up in a large recording room, vintage microphones was positioned at both close and far away perspective capturing the amp close-up and with natural ambience. To add variety, three mics were positioned next up to the speaker; a dynamic, a tube condenser and a ribbon microphone. One floor and one room microphone setup were used for the option of adding depth and ambience to the recordings. 

In addition to the acoustical recordings, two line signals were also recorded: One “direct” through high-voltage DI box and another through the classic Roland Dimension D analog stereo chorus.

We Recorded Using the Following:

Music Man 112 RD combo amp (Close Mic): 

• Telefunken U47 Tube Condenser 
• Coles 4038 Ribbon 
• Shure SM57 Dynamic 

Ambient (Room) Recording: 

• Neumann SM69 Stereo Microphone 

Direct Output: 

• Clean Line Output 
• Line Output through Roland Dimension D 

Acoustic Strings: 

• Sela T25 Stereo Microphone

About Galleries and ExploreMaps

Helping you Learn and Discover Sounds:

Our Gallery page (accessed by pressing the “Gallery” button) shows general information about the installed Addictive Keys instruments as well as those available in the online shop. The bottom of the Gallery page shows thumbnails of the available ExploreMaps for the currently selected instrument.

The ExploreMap page (accessed by pressing the “Explore” button) contains a selection of presets that you can easily preview and select with one click. This makes it easy to explore the various possible sounds. Many ExploreMaps also contain convenient macro controllers for fast/easy editing.

MAIN FEATURES

• Fender Rhodes Mk. 1 Stage Piano
• Classic and Intimate Sound
• 7 Different recording perspectives

Five Classic EP Tones – A Suite of Sweet EPs

Stage EP includes multi-layer sample sets collected from the world’s most impressive electric pianos! The AIR engineering team painstakingly sampled each electric piano model in Germany to make sure they captured the natural beauty of the instrument’s acoustic characteristics.

Rhodes: A sample of the legendary, classic EP instrument that was ultra-innovative for its time. Using the “struck tuning fork” method to generate its sound, the original instrument has a metal tone bar that adds resonance and sustain to create a full sound with a distinct growl.

Rhodes Hot: The same base tones of the standard Rhodes model, but run with additional gain to heat up the signal and amplify the sweet harmonic overtones of the instrument.

Suitcase: Part of the classic Rhodes family, the suitcase was a revolution in sound that has been heard on countless records from the 70s. The suitcase added an 80W amp and an exaggerated bell tone from the enhanced pickups of the era—great for classic jazz or funk sounds.

Wurli: Based on one of the most highly regarded and legendary EPs in history, the Wurli model for Stage EP is based on the “struck strings and reed” design that gives it a sweet, vibraphone-like tone.

Pianet: A soft and understated model based on classic “leather on metal” design that gives a distinct vibe, different from other models. Perfect for soft and articulate passages that can capture the imagination and soothe your soul.

Get Exquisite EP Sounds with Ease

The Stage EP electric piano instrument delivers the lush and rich sounds of the most desirable electric pianos you have ever heard. Stage EP includes five detailed models of the Rhodes, Rhodes Hot, Suitcase, Wurli, and Pianet instruments, as well as acoustic mechanics and an FM tine synth for capturing the magic and warm smoothness of the originals, as well as adding a full spectrum of modern and classic sounds.

Craft Your Own Ep Sounds With Multiple Models And Colorful Effects Controls

Jazzy, Smooth, Clean EP Tones, Sculptable by You.

The Stage EP is built with piano players in mind, especially those that love the clean and smooth vibe of electric pianos. With its stunning user interface, you can instantly edit each model, affecting everything from the sound Formant or model Age to the physical-mechanical sounds. Stage EP offers over 100 professional presets and a robust FX set including cabinets and amp sims, chorus, tremolo, EQ, and compression. Stage EP will be the elegant, silky richness your music has been waiting for.

Electrify Your Audience with the Stage EP!

The Stage EP is built with piano players in mind, whether on-stage or in the studio. The colorful interface features stylistic effects that will give you the jazzy, chill vibe that EPs are known for. Each electric piano model included with the instrument offers separate pedal parameters that will let you adjust the response, mechanics, or other sound design parameters to get you the perfect tone.

Built-In Effects Engine to Color and Stylize your EP sounds

Stage EP includes multiple effects like Flavor timbre control, EQ, amp and cab simulations, compression, rich reverbs, delay, and modulation. Create brilliant shimmers, dark haunting echoes, or spacey washed electric pianos with a cutting-edge effects engine built right into the instrument.

Unlock these sounds in Akai MPC/FORCE for FREE

Purchase this plugin and you’ll get the ability to unlock it within your Akai Professional MPC / FORCE Standalone hardware as well as using within your favorite DAW. Seamlessly move productions from standalone hardware to your DAW with the same great sounds.

Features:

• Five detailed electric piano models including Rhodes, Rhodes Hot, Suitcase, Wurli, and Pianet
• Built-in effects include amp and cab sims, chorus, tremolo, EQ, compression, and more!
• Adjust the instrument model’s formants, dynamic, and age with simple controls
• Comes with 100 brilliantly designed presets
• Purchase unlocks plug-in on three devices including PC, MAC (VST, AU, AAX) and Standalone (MPC & FORCE)

Introducing Delphi Piano series, volume 2: Knightsen Boxgrand 

A marvelous musical rarity with an untamed spirit. In this series, we explore vintage and classic instruments as portals into new worlds of creative sound design possibility. This time, our focus is on massive, emotionally charged textures that overflow with bombast, while ornately enriched with intricate detail and a distinctive character. It’s not just another ordinary old piano; this one possesses a wild side that pushes the boundaries of sonic exploration outward a little further than we usually go.

In this library, we explore new forms of sonic pareidolia, simultaneously conjuring illusions and revealing the ghosts in the signal. Our goal is to preserve its beauty, flaws and deeper untapped potential in an eternally playable form. Next, we reshape the source recordings into new and complex evolving tones, textures, movements, patterns, abstractions and distortions. It is a collection of playable soundscapes, and transcendent leads, with a wide selection of custom presets and options to transform the sound in an endless variety of new ways that we’re sure will surprise and inspire you.

Contents

The Kontakt interface includes a suite of automation-ready sound-shaping controls to give you total creative flexibility. You have control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more.

This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control. Our customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. We’ve included a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.

The interface is rounded-out by our modular FX rack panel, with 27 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 8 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more. The Reverb effect includes our favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. We’ve added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!

Features

• Box grand piano notes, releases, clusters, glisses, dead keys, pedal noises in two mic positions
• 11 multi-sampled ambient pads, evolving drones, impacts created from the source content
• 37 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets
• 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
• 36 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• 2,264 stereo samples
• 8.92 GB Installed
• Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator
• Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments

INTRODUCING THE DARK GRAND PIANO LE VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT

Dark Silence Sound Design proudly presents the Dark Grand Piano LE VST/AU!

The Dark Grand Piano LE breeds elegance into any style of musical project!

This instrument was carefully crafted for simplicity and anyone looking for an authentic grand piano sound in a compact virtual studio environment.

“We wanted to take our best selling kontakt instrument and transform it into a stand-alone virtual instrument!

The perfect addition to your studio collection!”

FULL ACCESS TO THE DARK GRAND PIANO

This instrument gives you full access to our original #1 selling kontakt piano instrument, featuring a full 1920 – 85 key grand piano!

Each key has been recorded and processed for outstanding character, making the Dark Grand Piano a very unique virtual instrument!

Whether its laying out a simple melody for a new track or scoring a cinematic award winning picture. The Dark Grand LE gives you the full power of a classic grand piano right at your fingertips!

SIMPLIFIED CONTROLS

The Dark Grand Piano LE includes a reverb effect and a low-pass filter option.

All keys are velocity sensitive with a velocity control function.

There is also a length feature to dial in your desired release time.

A WORD FROM THE CREATORS

“The Dark Grand Piano LE was created to solve a real world, audio industry, problem, which is, that many virtual pianos are highly expensive and carry a heavy learning curve for new artists. Not anymore, the Dark Grand Piano LE delivers on all fronts.

A simple, compact, and extremely affordable, virtual instrument.

The Dark Grand Piano LE gives immediate inspiration to fulfill your most abundant creations.”

PURCHASE THE DARK GRAND PIANO LE VST/AU TODAY

Instrument:

• 85 KEY CLASSIC GRAND PIANO
• GENRE (STYLE)
• ALL STYLES + GENRES + FILM

• Reverb
• LP filter
• Velocity
• Length
• Volume

SPECTRAL MODELED ELECTRIC PIANO

We decoded and analyzed a vintage electric piano sinewaves spectrum for every note and every velocity, and recreated it manually. When you play a note on Markus, the exact same sound for the original instrument will be generated (no samples involved)

And we did it manually. Every single harmonic was tuned by ear. Like in acoustic piano tuning, the final touch is always made manually, and no tuning software or algorithm is able to replace that.

PRODUCT DETAILS

• 88 Notes EP.
• No player (like Kontakt, UVI, etc) or any other 3rd. party host needed.
• Ready to be loaded into major DAWs (Cubase, Logic Pro, GarageBand, Cakewalk, Reaper, BitWig, Nuendo, FLstudio, etc)
• No layer switching (Smooth velocity curve).
• Recreated from real electric piano sound spectrum
• Preamp, Reverb and Phaser FX included.
• Bells and Releases controls.
• Adjustable non-linear velocity (changes harmonic behavior)

DECODING THE ELECTRIC PIANO GENOME

Every sound in nature is a complex spectrum of harmonics. The combination of those harmonics makes every sound unique and easy to be identified by humans. Doing the reverse engineering for finding the harmonics that makes a tine-based electric piano sound like a tine-based electric piano is a complex task. We disassembled tine-based electric piano timbre into the minimal parts a sound can be split. And reassembled into a fully expressive virtual instrument.

WHAT’S NEW ON VERSION 1.5? This is more than an update.

We redesigned the entire harmonic spectrum and behaviors. Bells are more natural, low range is darker and overall velocity responses were improved.

Update Features:

• MacOS Catalina ready.
• New harmonic spectrum.
• Improved response on low velocities.
• Improved inharmonics on low frequencies.
• Re-designed release noises.
• Fixed channel’s gain fluctuations.
• CPU efficiency fixes.

The Grand Master of Pianos

The response, dynamics and character of this instrument capture the very essence of a great grand piano. It will inspire your creativity.

About Studio Grand

The Studio Grand features a classic Steinway Model D concert grand piano. The first choice of many pianists, Steinways are famous for their character and unrivaled sound. The included ExploreMaps offer presets in a variety of styles ranging from open and natural to processed and strange. The variety of sounds makes Studio Grand perfect for both production and stage duties.

The Instrument and its Presets

Steinway Model D Grand Piano:

Our Studio Grand features a Steinway Model D Concert Grand piano. At 8′ 11 3/4″ (274cm) in length, this majestic instrument is the overwhelming choice of the world’s greatest pianists. More than ten Steinway Grand Pianos were auditioned before finding the one with the most desirable character: a crystal clear and open timbre with a perfectly balanced resonance. 

We approached Studio Grand with production in mind. We found that fitting a grand piano in a mix can be hard and often results in a compromise of the sound quality in order to make it fit with the other instruments and vocals. By offering the exact recording setup in Addictive Keys and the option of mixing and matching microphones, Studio Grand is sure to fit nicely into any production style.

Studio Grand was recorded in a large recording studio at the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation. The studio is famous for being extremely quiet and for having a controlled acoustic ambience; for such a large room the reverberation still sounds tight and airy which is a rare combination and the perfect condition for recording a grand piano. 

The recordings were done using rare vintage tube and ribbon microphones capturing the instrument at several different perspectives. From close up perspective with microphones next to the soundboard to far away perspective with natural room ambience. The end result is a warm and vibrant sound that goes from intimate to larger-than-life. The vintage microphones used were hand picked from the studios impressive collection.

We Recorded Using the Following:

• Close (Stereo XY): Neumann M269 
• Close (Stereo Wide): Coles 4038 
• Close (Mono): RCA 6203 
• Mid (Stereo Wide): Neumann M250 
• Ambient (Stereo Wide): Neumann M269 
• Body (Mono): Sela T25 

About Galleries and Exploremaps 

Helping you Learn and Discover Sounds:

Our Gallery page (accessed by pressing the “Gallery” button) shows general information about the installed Addictive Keys instruments as well as those available in the online shop. The bottom of the Gallery page shows thumbnails of the available ExploreMaps for the currently selected instrument.

The ExploreMap page (accessed by pressing the “Explore” button) contains a selection of presets that you can easily preview and select with one click. This makes it easy to explore the various possible sounds. Many ExploreMaps also contain convenient macro controllers for fast/easy editing.

MAIN FEATURES

• Steinway Model D Grand Piano
• Warm tone and unique sound
• Six selectable mic perspectives