SPONGE PIANO2

Cramer upright piano+ human thumb x bathroom sponge = SPONGE PIANO2

A beautifully recorded character piano with the warm thump of strings deadened by a well sponged thumb. Sponge Piano is what happens when you multi-sample a conventional piano in an unconventional way.

The aim here is to create a new piano timbre. Something which carries the weight, emotional oomph and play-ability of a traditional piano. But with something a little different going on.

A bit Agnes Obel, a hint of Tom Waits and with death metal possibilities.

NEW IN VERSION 2

Completely re-edited, tweaked and polished sample set with 3000 ish new samples & 4 proper Round Robin layers

NEW - octave up, note off & record crackle or tape hiss articulations

NEW - engine based on the glorious FELT DULCITONE

NEW - GLUE control a multi layered compression and saturation on one knob

NEW - drag and drop MIDI recorder

NEW - 50 great sounding snapshots

LOTS of under the hood improvements

K5 & K6 versions have different architecture, they are the same but different - so use both if you can.

What's Inside ?

• Two Kontakt .nki instruments (1 Kontakt 5 + 1 Kontakt 6).
• 50 snapshots.
• 4,500 24-bit binaural samples recorded with Jecklin Disc technique.
• Lovely Cramer upright piano with every note over 7 octaves sampled with up to 20 velocity layers.
• 4 randomized round robin layers.
• 1.9GB download (NCW compressed from 4.6GB sample pool).
• Multimode humanized ARP/sequencer.
• Sample start fader.
• Octave up articulation.
• Release articulation.
• Record crackle or tape noise articulation.
• Keyboard velocity sensitivity adjustment.
• Voice stack mode for up to eight notes at once.
• Note attack speed control.
• Note release control.
• Multimode glue control.
• Transient, tape, delay and distortion effect.
• Three band EQ.
• A hint of room reverb.
• Replika delay and high quality algorithmic reverb - Kontakt 6 version.
• All controls will show up in DAW automation.
• requires FULL Kontakt 5.8.1 or above.

{See video at top of page}