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The Idea & Process
It's a unique mixture of physical modelling and fm synths recorded on a cassette with an old & wonky cassette recorder. It has a range from C0 to E6 and 4 carefully designed velocity layers. The GUI is very simple, yet useful and almost synth-like - so just like its predecessor Cassette Piano, it’s very easy and fun to work with.
Every note of this instrument has been carefully denoised with a high quality algorithm to avoid noise stacking when playing more than one note. Noise can still be added with the noise slider - it’s much more flexible this way and allows the ability to adjust the volume of the noise independently whilst also applying parameters such as filtering. It also creates a more realistic sound, so when playing a five voice chord, only one sample of noise instead of five stacked on top of each other will be heard.
The End Result
Useful and fun production tool
If you like vintage sounds and you're looking for something to enhance your production toolbox, then this product will be for you.
Simple, one page interface
Everything is laid out on one page allowing fast sound design possibilities.
Simulated Round Robin
Makes notes sound realistic when played ostinato (even when playing fast) - check out the introduction video to hear it in action.
Variety of sounds
With this instrument you can easily create some weird sounds and there are already 30 presets included to get you started.
Features
- 848 MB of samples (452 MB after lossless Kontakt compression)
- Simulated round-robin
- REV (reverse) mode
- Mono mode
- 4 velocity layers
- One-page interface for easy and fast sound design
- 30 presets
System Requirements
Full version of Kontakt 5.5.1 (or higher) is required - you can load this instrument in Kontakt Player but it'll work only for limited time