Pssst Instruments have released Preparist, available at the intro price of $19.00 + Tax, increasing to $49.00 + Tax after the promotion.
Forget lifeless, overused samples. Preparist brings you something entirely different – a percussive library created from a vintage Gustav Rosler upright piano, modified, prepared, and played with everything we could find: hammers, chains, magnets, sticks, fists, elbows… you name it. The result, a massive, modern-sounding, organic percussion library that breathes character. Inspirations? John Cage, Krzysztof Penderecki, George Crumb, sonorists, minimialists and avant-gardists.
If you’re a fan of prepared piano, don’t miss our first library in the Prepared Piano series: Avant-Gardist: Tonally Prepared Cinematic Piano. It’s a much larger instrument that lets you play beautiful, organic, and originally sounding melodies, harmonies and textures. It’s our best seller – and to be honest it is our best instrument so far. It’s truly unique and inspiring.
Originally, Pssst Instruments intended Preparist to be an extension of Avant-Gardist. So, we recorded new samples and also redesigned selected samples from Avant-Gardist to serve as top quality percussive sounds (e.g. layering, shortening attacks, selecting proper round robins, adding compression, etc.).
In the end, however, Pssst Instruments realized Preparist was too good to be just an extension… That’s why we released it as a separate new library – this time focused on percussion (as said, Avant-Gardist is for unique melodies, harmonies and textures). The result: both libraries now share a beautiful, organic and consistent sonic character, but they do different jobs, not replace each other.
Pssst Instruments recorded them all: hits, clusters, knocks, strums, slams, plucks, bowings, mutings, scratches, strikes, taps, flicks, rubs, clunks – performed using fingers, hands, forearms, elbows, fists, fingernails… And let’s not forget about plastic, wooden, and metal tools like nails, textiles, sticks, forks, hammers, magnets, strainers, chains, etc… Played on EVERY part of our old upright piano.
It gave Pssst Instruments a wide palette of sounds, moods & emotions (not only for horror & thriller!). To learn more about our techniques – performance, recording, microphones, and the story behind their old upright piano – read the detailed story on the Avant-Gardist page. The technical aspects are more or less the same for both libraries in the Prepared Piano series.
This library comes in two formats: as a one-shot sample pack (440 WAV files) and as a Kontakt library requiring a full version of Kontakt 6.8 or later.
Kontakt features include:
- Requires full Kontakt 6.8 or higher
- One kit patch with 88 articulations and round robins
- All sounds and their variations grouped and colored
- Built-in effects: Reverb & Delay, Lo/Hi Filters, Tone, Attack/Release, Pitch, Stereo Width, Compressor, Distortion, Lo-Fi, BitCrusher, Decimator
- 390 MB disk space required (compressed from 1.58 GB)
Sample pack features include:
- 440 WAV files (88 one-shots x 5 variations each)
- No additional software required
- Just drag and drop into your DAW or sampler
- 1.58 GB, 44.1 kHz / 24-bit
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