Free Yamaha Grand Piano Instrument for Kontakt 5

[Syrou]

What is this?

I've created an instrument for Kontakt 5 featuring the Yamaha Grand Piano from the CX-series.

The instrument should work for Kontakt 5 Player (which is free) so there is nothing stopping you from trying this one out.

Why free?

For this to be able to reach comercial status, it would need to have all notes recorded, or be able to resample all the notes to a certain degree, which it does not.
It also does not have manual velocity recorded for each note, but rather recreated with volume inside Kontakt.

The instrument does recreate the pitch accuratly, but some overtones obviously does not get recreated perfectly.

It was only recorded with one long sample, which means the volume envelope is created by code.

Can I use this in my productions?

Even though it is free, which is hard to beat, it does not sound as good as the professional comercial variants out on the market. However, it does sound good enough to use in productions. You are also free to use these samples or instruments in your productions, as long as you put my name as the creator of the package, recordings and instrument creation. You can find the details in the readme.txt that follows with the piano.zip file.

Will there be a comercial follow up on this?

The plan at a later point, is to create a package that meets the above requirements, which will be released in that case under my homepage www.syrou.eu (under construction)

Where do I get it?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5256694/piano.zip

If you wish to supply a mirror for the file, since dropbox is quite slow, that would be appriciated.

Who is the Creator?

Joakim Forslund
me@syrou.eu

Wallpaper for the piano was taken from http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldpiano/

On my spare time I create house music, and you can visit my soundcloud profile.

Currently looking for work,so if you are looking for a sound designer/recorder please contact me.

[waltercruz]

Thanks Joakim Forslund . Downloading it, will test it later.

[Syrou]

Thanks Joakim Forslund . Downloading it, will test it later.

If you find any use of it, i'd be happy if you could send me a link with a production using that maybe i could showcase on this post

[chrisvoriu]

Hi Joakim, it seems that this link is broken. I can't download it.

[enroe]

... it does not sound as good as the professional comercial variants out
on the market.

I think you are subject to a common prejudice here: It is
generally not the case that commercial sample sets or plugins
sound better than free ones. That is a prejudice!

There are more very plain simple mini-sample sets. But this is
only the case because the entry threshold is lower: If you are
creating a sample set or programming a plug-in for the first time,
you will initially put it online - just for the sake of simplicity.

But if we look at the more complex libraries and plugins, then
there is super good free software and super good commercial
software. And I have even bought libraries that were pretty bad,
much worse than the elaborate free sample sets. And that's not
that rare.

That means: There is generally no difference in quality between
free and commercial.

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So you are free to decide whether you want to make your sampled
piano freely available to the community or whether you want to
sell it.

PS1: "commercial" is always spelled with two "m".
PS2: Your link still doesn't work.