Spotlight Piano

Our brand new flagship piano - an iconic concert grand piano recorded in a large concert hall, with all the nuances Fracture Sounds has become known for. Spotlight Piano aims to be your go-to piano for writing emotional music moments, whether that's composing your latest ballad, or capturing the essence of the scene.

About the Library

This library follows on from our highly regarded series of "character pianos" (Woodchester Piano, Midnight Grand, Glacier Keys). Drawing upon our countless hours of experience sampling pianos in recent years, we set out to create the ultimate scoring piano. We returned to the same hall as Midnight Grand and Glacier Keys, and captured the same glorious Steinway D Concert Grand - this time in its pure form (without the felt, cotton or extended techniques of our previous pianos) but still keeping Fracture Sounds' sonic signature and ease-of-use, and with even more detail and nuance than our previous pianos.

Spotlight Piano was designed with delicate, emotional, cinematic scoring in mind, but with its plethora of intuitive sonic shaping and performance tweaking controls, in addition to the 21 carefully curated presets included, this concert grand will fit comfortably into a wide range of musical styles.

Advanced Mixing Tools
The library features our familiar streamlined mixer panel, with 3 signals which can be easily controlled with their individual sliders, or by using the 'perspective' slider to seamlessly transition between a close and distant mix.

Those users who want to take the mix further can make use of our new advanced mix settings, which includes controls for time alignment (compensating for the natural delay between the close, mid and far signals), and close mic blend between the body and hammers positions.

Ultimate Dynamic Control

New in Spotlight Piano is the ability to fully customise the dynamic response of the instrument, whether to modify the character of the piano, or to match the feel of your MIDI keyboard. Using the intuitive graph controls, you can control the timbre (sample selection) and volume scaling independently. Want to reach the loudest dynamics with less effort? Drag up on the middle of the timbre scaling graph to adjust the curve. Want a more intimate 'felt piano' sound but with full dynamic control? Drag the 'max' slider down to limit the instrument to the softest dynamics.

Features:

• Steinway D Concert Grand, sampled in a concert hall.
• Deep, emotive tone - perfect for film scoring.
• Pedal control with true sympathetic resonance.
• 10 sound-design Atmosphere Layers.
• Controllable key release, pedal, and room noise.
• Over 20 inspiring presets to fit a range of genres.
• Simple and user-friendly interface.
• Full NKS support - works with Komplete Kontrol hardware.
• 20GB download size (NCW compressed from a 55GB sample pool).
• Runs in the free Kontakt Player (v6.8 or later). No additional sampler software needed.
• Download through Native Access.