The story
| go to Berklee College of Music and was recently assigned some homework to
sample any instrument in Kontakt. I’ve been a big fan of Pianobook since | first saw
it advertised by Christian, so | Knew | wanted to sample a piano and submit it here.
| sampled a Yamaha upright piano in the practice rooms in my dorm building, both
with the felt pedal and without. This is my first sample instrument, so | really spent
time learning how to use Kontakt and implement everything | wanted to. | recorded
with a Zoom Hin and an iPhone, because | love the lo-fi blend they can produce.
I’m really happy with how it came out, hope you enjoy!
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Why we love this piano
I am a fan of decent sampler and all the free sample packs. I use it for my students. with a serious disability. Pauline uses her eye gaze system and our free software EyePlayChords to make music. We just love to use this sound! This is a video we made this morning.
https://youtu.be/kLTVPSCWMj0My favorite
I tried almost every upright piano from pianobook, and this is my favorite! for my personal taste, it has more dynamic range in tone than others
Practice Room Piano
I don’t usually give reviews on stuff .but this is out of this world literally. I love this .this is the best piano I’ve ever tried .I’m using it on iOS on a iPad but for some reason It doesn’t load in 100%. It says errors were encountered. it still plays but it has a slight clicking sound I would just like to thank you for putting this on playbook it is absolutely Brilliant
thank you.If you get a chance .could you have a look into this I am on iPad Pro M1 256 gig iOS 14.5Hope you got full marks for this
These are two lovely piano sample instruments, and it's really cool to hear about the classes at Berklee, as a student at CalArts. The LoFi quality definitely came through, although others should note that this instrument uses C4 as middle C not C3. That's not really a deal breaker in any sense, and I can't wait to see more from you, as this was an amazing sampling job for a first attempt.
A piano with some lo-fi elements
You don't really expect an instrument called "Practice Room Piano' to be leaning towards the Lo-Fi route, but this is what mostly defines this one. I'd personally like a more clean sound by default, with the added option to have noise on top - or just have noise running through the entire patch so you don't have empty spots if you stop playing.
The name "Practice Room" piano might also be a little misleading to people looking for a simple piano patch to load up quickly for practice, which is not the case for this one. In terms of the sound, it comes with a nice Reverb and Delay effects, which you can't control too much but they can create an interesting sound. I'm not sure if this next thing was intentional, but I noticed that once you play staccato, the noises that are built up just stop immediately - and while if you play smoothly, they go on with you. This makes it very interesting as the staccato creates a very sudden feeling which can be used very creatively.
The felt patch seems very low-heavy, so keep that in mind. It's always nice for the user to have the extra options.
