Piano Toy
5 Core Articulations (Keystrokes, Sustains, Felt, Plucked and Muted)
10 Sound Design Articulations
5 Tailored Presets
Multiple Round Robins and Velocities
Six Octaves of impeccable sound thanks to our Sample Deconstruction technique
Multiple Mix Perspectives (Inside, Musician, Far)
Recorded, Mixed and delivered in Ambisonics and Stereo.
Pristine 24bit / 48kHz resolution.
Natively compatible with Stereo, Spatial Audio, Surround, Binaural, VR and any speaker array configuration.*
Requires full version of Kontakt, v6.2.1 or above.
A free ‘Mini’ version is also available (please read below for more info about its features)
5 Core Articulations (Keystrokes, Sustains, Felt, Plucked and Muted)
10 Sound Design Articulations
5 Tailored Presets
Multiple Round Robins and Velocities
Six Octaves of impeccable sound thanks to our Sample Deconstruction technique
Multiple Mix Perspectives (Inside, Musician, Far)
Recorded, Mixed and delivered in Ambisonics and Stereo.
Pristine 24bit / 48kHz resolution.
Natively compatible with Stereo, Spatial Audio, Surround, Binaural, VR and any speaker array configuration.*
Requires full version of Kontakt, v6.2.1 or above.
A free ‘Mini’ version is also available (please read below for more info about its features)
5 Core Articulations (Keystrokes, Sustains, Felt, Plucked and Muted)
10 Sound Design Articulations
5 Tailored Presets
Multiple Round Robins and Velocities
Six Octaves of impeccable sound thanks to our Sample Deconstruction technique
Multiple Mix Perspectives (Inside, Musician, Far)
Recorded, Mixed and delivered in Ambisonics and Stereo.
Pristine 24bit / 48kHz resolution.
Natively compatible with Stereo, Spatial Audio, Surround, Binaural, VR and any speaker array configuration.*
Requires full version of Kontakt, v6.2.1 or above.
A free ‘Mini’ version is also available (please read below for more info about its features)
Listen
Demos in Dolby Atmos
Demos in stereo
Demos in Ambisonics (best viewed in 8K)
Video Walkthrough
Read
Meet the instrument.
In our search for perfecting the craft of Sampling, we are extremely proud to present ‘Piano Toy’ a small instrument made huge, thanks to our dedication and innovative techniques in recording, mixing, and developing Sample Libraries.
Starting from the recording session, the Piano was recorded and mixed using three perspectives: Inside, Musician and Far where, thanks to our three-dimensional recording and mixing expertise, help you experience the instrument in the utmost realistic way.
You have more questions? Continue reading below for a detailed concept!
The Mixes
The ‘Inside’ Mix will submerge you in the instrument and you will hear its resonance embrace you. It has a huge image and no directionality.
The ‘Musician’ Mix will have the Piano at the tip of your fingers, and you will feel the perfect realism whilst playing. The perfect balance between directionality and image.
The ‘Far’ mix provides a more distant kind of sound, perfect for when you want to use the piano as background of your music. It’s very directional and its image is very narrow.
Because Piano Toy was recorded and mixed both in Ambisonics and Stereo, no matter if your music is in Stereo, Surround, Atmos, for VR or even for custom speaker arrays, the results will always be as close to reality as they can get!
The Articulations
Our main aim when sampling Piano Toy was to offer the best of the best! To do that we went all the way and not only sampled the typical Sustains any other library would - but also sampled they Keystrokes for utmost realism in the action…
And well, we also took the liberty to go for a Muted, a Plucked and even a Felt version: Can you imagine a Felt Piano Toy? Well now you can play it!
Finally, to create the perfect complement for the acoustic articulations, we designed 10 Pads that will sit in the background of ‘Piano Toy’ comfortably! All the Pads loop perfectly and were designed BOTH in Stereo AND Ambisonics, so no matter your speaker array, you will feel the sound embrace you!
Six octaves of impeccable sound
Thanks to our Sample Deconstruction technique (developed for Tangent Drum), we bring you ‘Piano Toy’ as a 6-octave instrument, free of any of those glitches traditional pitch shifting produces. You can now play a proper real Piano Toy throughout most of your keyboard with beautiful results!
The results are extremely high quality sound as well as crazy clean playability!
The Engine
Piano Toy comes in our powerful engine, meaning you will be able to manipulate the sound to even the most extreme extends - compatible with Touch Screens, with a completely routable set of effects, flexible modulators, Arpeggiator and a unique Layered version for you to have fun with!
See
Straight from the sessions.
Watch
Trailers and Teasers
Technical Specifications
Ambisonics + Stereo Version
Over 9.000 Samples
9.5GB Compressed to 4.5GB
Stereo Version Included
Requires FULL Kontakt 6.2.1+
Requires Pulse Downloader
(click to download)
CPU: i5+
RAM: 4GB+
Articulation List
All articulations come in a six-octave range thanks to our Sample Deconstruction technique **
Core
Keystrokes (On / Off)
Sustain
Felt
Plucked
Muted
Sound Design **
Fingers (from Core)
Finger Tips (from Core)
Mallets (from Core)
Mallets Muted (from Core)
Chambers (loop)
Hot Rods (loop)
Build Up (loop)
LFE (loop)
Thin Scratch (loop)
Breaking Glass (loop)
Mix Perspectives
Inside (Inside The Piano- with huge stereophony)
Musician (A Musician perspective, great stereophony and directionality) **
Far (Far from the piano, great directionality, perfecto for backgrounds) **
** Not available in the 'free ‘Mini' version.
* Ambisonics Format is natively compatible with any speaker array configuration as long as a third-party decoder can support it.
‘Ambisonics Version’ is delivered both in Stereo (2-channel samples) and RAW Ambix Ambisonics (4-channel samples). As Kontakt doesn’t natively support Ambisonics decoding, a third-party plug-in might be needed if your DAW cannot decode natively. Fortunately there are several ways to achieve this. Please go to our Support section and learn how you can decode Ambisonics in your DAW
Please make sure your DAW supports multichannel tracks, as for Ambisonics to work, a 4-channel (or more) track is needed. Please find out about DAW compatibility in our Support section.
A full version of Kontakt is needed to load this library. It will NOT work with Kontakt player. Please make sure you own the latest version of Kontakt before purchasing.