Free or cheap Harpsichord? (for Kontakt)

[an-electric-heart]

Hi guys,

I'm working on a song in which harpsichord takes centre-stage.
At the moment I've only got the one that comes in the Kontakt factory selection, it's not bad, just maybe a little sterile.
Do you know of any free or reasonably priced ones? I am doing a Google as well.

Oh, it doesn't need to be for Kontakt... but I am after samples, because I'd like a stereo recording.

Thanks.

[DJErmac]

Hello,

Yes, you can find two decent free Kontakt harpsichords :

The Small Italian :
http://sonimusicae.free.fr/petititalien-en.html

and the Blanchet 1720 :
http://sonimusicae.free.fr/blanchet1-en.html

The cheapest one I know that sounds very nice is the Blanchet Cembalo by PrecisionSound ($49) :
https://store.precisionsound.net/shop/blanchet-cembalo/

There is also a cheaper one, but it sounds unique, you love it or you hate it, it's been released very recently, it's the Harpsichord from Xperimenta ($34) :
https://www.xperimentaproject.com/xperi ... rpsichord/
Personnaly, I love it and bought it immediatly, but it has a surprising tone, a lot of bass for a harpsichord, it's a very modern take of a harpischord.

[an-electric-heart]

Hello,

Yes, you can find two decent free Kontakt harpsichords :

The Small Italian :
http://sonimusicae.free.fr/petititalien-en.html

and the Blanchet 1720 :
http://sonimusicae.free.fr/blanchet1-en.html

The cheapest one I know that sounds very nice is the Blanchet Cembalo by PrecisionSound ($49) :
https://store.precisionsound.net/shop/blanchet-cembalo/

There is also a cheaper one, but it sounds unique, you love it or you hate it, it's been released very recently, it's the Harpsichord from Xperimenta ($34) :
https://www.xperimentaproject.com/xperi ... rpsichord/
Personnaly, I love it and bought it immediatly, but it has a surprising tone, a lot of bass for a harpsichord, it's a very modern take of a harpischord.

Cool! I'd found those top two, and have downloaded them, but haven't tried them yet.
But hadn't seen that Xperimenta one, and that one sounds great. I'll listen to more demos! Ta!

[FLWrd]

There's this one for $15: https://vis.versilstudios.com/harpsichord.html

[SoundPorn]

Actually some of the best Harpischords I've heard have been inside of synths like Synthmaster, and Flow Motion got a great sounding one.

But anywho you can get Sonivox Harpischord for $2 off reverb.com and you can demo it for 14 days first.https://reverb.com/software/instruments ... arpsichord

Also Big Cat released a free Harpischord vst around Christmas check his blog http://bcvsts.blogspot.com/

[SoundPorn]

He actually is giving away the SFZ version of this for free, along with 5 gigs worth of other instruments tho...
https://github.com/sgossner/VCSL/releases/

There's this one for $15: https://vis.versilstudios.com/harpsichord.html

[SoundPorn]

At 22:00 he starts playing the Harpischord samples
https://youtu.be/Lw3rGNT4_bU

He actually is giving away the SFZ version of this for free, along with 5 gigs worth of other instruments tho...
https://github.com/sgossner/VCSL/releases/

There's this one for $15: https://vis.versilstudios.com/harpsichord.html

[David]

I'm very fond of this one (£30):

http://dulcitone1884.virb.com/tiny-binaural-harpsichord