Extended Piano Techniques

If you're writing the soundtrack to any kind of suspense scene then you need these samples - but they could also fit into many other genres. There are 4 Kontakt instruments (version 2.4 onwards), each made by playing the insides of a Yamaha C3 piano. 1) Bell Piano The bottom A of the piano was played, whilst 'finger stopping' the string, giving a fantastic bell-like sound. Stopped in 14 different positions, each at 8 velocity levels, with and without pedal. 2) Sinister Harmonics A similar idea to the bell piano, done on a much wider range of notes, but with fewer stopping positions and velocity levels. Also no pedal samples. This instrument gives the sinister 'chugging' sound ubiquitous to spy thrillers. 3) Thumbnail Scrapes The sound of a thumbnail being scraped down the length of the strings. This was done on the string of about 20 notes, each at three different speeds, with and without pedal. 4) Zither PIano Playing the strings like a harp. For each quarter of the piano there are 'up' and 'down' glissandi, at three different speeds, all at three velocities, with and without pedal. Overall this is about 843MB unzipped, and contains some 960 wav files.

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Piano Demos at SoundCloud.