Cassette Piano.02
Audio Demos
The Idea & Process
One of the main improvements of Cassette Piano.02 is a completely new set of samples of an (not so perfect) old upright piano recorded in a ballet training room (in both stereo and mono, with mics at the back of the piano) which resulted in surprisingly organic and tasty sound with all kinds of little imperfections. In order to make the best use of those recordings, and to further expand the sound capabilities of the instrument, four different decks were used to process the samples.
Below, you can listen to how each of those decks affects the sound in their own different way:
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Deck A STEREO - the highest quality, very low pitch instability, plus it was recorded in stereo
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Deck A MONO - the same quality as the one above but recorded in mono
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Deck B MONO - the same one used in previous instruments (Cassette Piano, Cassette Keys.01, Cassette Mallets.01), slightly loose drive belt introduces a lot of pitch instability (sounds great when transposed down)
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Deck C MONO - the noisiest deck of all with medium amount of pitch instability
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Deck D MONO - similar to deck A but with more instability in pitch and overall sound
Every note has been carefully denoised with a high quality algorithm to avoid noise stacking when playing more than one note (there’s still some noise left in the samples to avoid denonising artifacts). Noise can still be added with the noise knob - 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.
Custom impulse responses in Kontakt version
Kontakt version contains custom impulses (4 spring impulses, 4 hall impulses & 3 corridor impulses), along with a choice of whether you want it to be placed pre or post insert effects - same thing goes for the delay.
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.
Simulated Round Robin
Makes faster note passages sound more realistic and adds to the overall nonlinearity of the instrument - available in Kontakt and SFZ versions only.
Variety of sounds
Aside from the sound of a cassette record with this instrument you can easily create some weird sounds and there are already quite a few presets included to get you started (Kontakt & Ableton Live versions only).
Specs
Available in multiple popular formats: Kontakt 5, Ableton Live 9, Logic, SFZ & Multiformat
5 GB of samples (1325 samples in total)
Recorded on 4 different decks
Recorded in mono and stereo
5 noise samples (each around 2 minutes long)
3 velocity layers
Organic sound with lots of little imperfections
Kontakt version
Full version of Kontakt 5.6.6 (or higher) required - not compatible with Kontakt Player
46 presets
One-page interface for easy and fast sound design
Convolution Reverb with custom impulses (spring, hall, corridor)
Ableton Live version
Full version of Live 9.7 (or higher) required
46 custom Instrument Racks with mapped macros
Custom Effect Racks
Logic version
Full version of Logic Pro X required - not tested in Logic Pro 9
25 basic presets (normal, reverse 100%, reverse 75%, reverse 50% & reverse 25% for each deck)
SFZ version
Compatible with any SFZ player, for example: Plogue Sforzando
10 presets (5 normal and 5 with simulated round-robin)
