Sound Dust have released Sponge Piano 2, a beautifully recorded character piano with the warm thump of strings deadened by a well sponged thumb. Sponge Piano 2 is available at the intro price of £28.00, increasing to £40.00 after the promotion, that’s a 30% saving.
What’s new in version 2:
- Completely re-edited, tweaked and polished sample set with 3000 ish new samples & 4 proper Round Robin layers
- Octave up, note off & record crackle or tape hiss articulations
- Engine based on the glorious FELT DULCITONE
- GLUE control a multi layered compression and saturation on one knob
- Drag and drop midi recorder
- 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.
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.
View the video walkthrough HERE.
Features include:
- Two Kontakt .nki instruments (1 Kontakt 5 + 1 Kontakt 6)
- 50 snapshots – Kontakt 6 version
- 4,500 24bit 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
Sponge Piano 2 requires a full version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or later.
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