MK Digital Keys is a new retro keyboard sample library by Nucleus SoundLab.
Bring the 80s keyboard sound to your productions with this faithful
sampling of Roland's MKS-20 keyboard synthesizer. MK Digital Keys is
available in three format packages: Reason Refill, WusikEngine, and
Kontakt/EXS/SFZ.

Back in 1986, there weren't many good ways to take a good keyboard
sounds with you while touring. Sampled pianos were in their infancy, with
extremely low samplerates and small ROM sizes. One answer to this problem
was SAS synthesis. This unique form of synthesis uses no samples whatsover,
and produces a very realistic sound. Still, its not a 'real piano', so
these days the sound is more useful for its retro character. It still
sounds great!

MK Digital Keys brings this retro sound to your modern sampler, while
removing original limitations like low polyphony and noisy outputs. This is
an extremely comprehensive sampling, with 6 samples per octave, 7 octaves,
and 6 velocity layers per note. All 8 tones of the MKS are represented (3
pianos, 2 EPs, Clav, Harp and Vibes). All of this comprises a total of
nearly 2100 mono 24-bit 44khz samples!

MK Digital Keys is also built to be scalable. At times, you won't have need
for the full extent of the sampling described above, due to CPU/RAM
constraints. For those times, 3 alternate smaller versions of each tone are
contained inside - L, M and S sizes. The S versions weigh in at under 50mb
and can fit into even the most RAM-starved projects. Details:

* 3.6+ GB of 24-bit 44khz samples
* 8 different classic keyboard tones
* 20 Combinators and 32 NN-XT patches inside the Refill
* 78 WusikEngine presets, including 46 custom presets by Daniel Stawczyk
* Kontakt/EXS/SFZ format pack contains raw .wav files plus patches
for all 3 formats.

Listen to what MK Digital Keys offers by downloading the MP3 demos on the product page. In addition, a Demo Refill is available for free download.

MK Digital Keys is available now. It is priced at $49.95 USD for a single
format package, or $59.95 for the multi-format package delivered
electronically. Also the product is available shipped on DVD anywhere in
the world for a $15 flat rate.

All current NSL customers can receive 10% off their single-format order for the first 60 days after release. Check your email for info on how to take advantage of this price!
Last edited by Jeremy_NSL on Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:55 pm; edited 1 time in total

Jeremy, I now listen mp3 demo on a circle and I can not stop! I love a sound of old synthesizers. Fine sounds! Thanks!

Hey future-bit, glad you are digging the demos

I've finished sending out the customer discount emails to all customers. If you didn't receive one, email me please.

Hi

I tried the refill, and loved it because sounds 100% Elton John. So I bought the Kontakt Version.

I miss some effect presets. It comes completetly dry (that's ok) but would be very nice to have also some well-crafted wet presets.

I tried addding some chorus to "Piano 3" and a little bit longer release. But still does not sound as good as the refill, I could not achieve that particular bright sound.

Could you give me some advice to tweak the effects?

Regards,
Miguel

Hi Miguel,

I'll see if I can whip up some Kontakt patches with FX, as an example. It may be that you just like the sound of Reason's FX better though?

If you made some presets for kontakt version would be great! -remember, Elton John's piano 3 sound-

I don't think that the question is that I prefer Reason. Most people would agree that the quality of the sound of Kontakt is probably better.

The question is that you made a great job with reason free preset. It includes a Thor Instance, two rv-7000, an un-16 and a scream 4. It is very well designed, it souns great!

Kontakt version includes much better samples, but completly naked. So, after buying the full version, I still use the demo version, what it's really paradoxical.

Hey Mortuno,

I get what you mean. I'll give it a shot to recreate that preset with Kontakt 2. It might take til next weekend though.

Jeremy, please don't forget your offer.


Miguel

I'm sorry Mortuno. I'll get something for you soon.

BTW, if you like you can also crossgrade to the Reason version. It comes with many patches that simply aren't possible to recreate in Kontakt.

I have been messing with these all day. Great sound library.

Two thumbs way up!

Jeremy,

Was MK Digital Keys used on the "BurnWeaver - Otto Cate" song that's playing on the product page? I love the sounds, as well as the tune itself, especially the lead voice playing the riff. If MK Digital Keys was not used on BurnWeaver, which of your libraries was used?

Hi eDrummist,

Yup. Thats MK Digital Keys - the Reason Refill version to be specific. Great track isn't it!

Jeremy, forgive me if this is a silly question (oh heck, just go ahead and have fun mocking me! I can take it and will smile with you!), but, I'm a Kontakt user, is there anything different about it then the Refill version that you just mentioned?

And again, it is a very cool demo track. Kudos to the artist who made this (Otto Cate).

Hi,

Well the patches are different. The Refill includes some 'creative' patches using different FX, patterned sequences etc. that isn't present in the Kontakt version. But the samples are identical - so you can certainly achieve pretty much the same sounds in all the formats.

FYI Otto didn't use any of the 'creative' factory patches anyway in his track... Just the basic samples with some FX added from what I can remember.

In fact, Kontakt does have a fair bit of advantage over the Refill since you can use DFD on these large samples, whereas Reason forces you to load the entire thing into RAM. Cheers,

Jeremy