Granny Piano

Our old busted Granny Piano captures the heart and soul of an old, run-down upright piano with rickety keys, a few broken strings, and many decades of hard use and abuse. Sure, there are plenty of other great upright piano libraries out there, with their shining lacquer and pristine strings, but none of them ever captured the authentic beauty of a cheap, dusty, beat-up, rusting, long untuned upright piano. This is the kind of upright you remember from your grandma's house.

We captured 3-4 velocity layers on all keys, with added round-robin variation on the two middle octaves in the mf range. There are actually two independent release trigger samples for every note to better replicate the natural behavior of the instrument as we recorded it. Each note has separate string release samples and key release samples. The “key” release trigger is the soft, distant-sounding mechanical wooden “thud” that naturally occurs whenever any key is lifted, even after the resonance has faded. The piano was so old and rickety that you'd have to very slowly release the sustain pedal or all of the hammers come crashing back down on the strings and occasionally even get stuck there if you lifted your foot too quickly. Over the years, our Old Busted Granny Piano has become a bit of a cult classic, finding its way into an endless roster of soundtracks, trailers, commercials, and records.

This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing, and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass, and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position, and step-sequencer table control. Our customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization, and duration. We’ve included a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.

The interface is rounded out by our modular FX rack panel, with 27 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 8 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator, and so much more. The Reverb effect includes our favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers, and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. We’ve added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!

Key Features:

• Granny piano Tuned, Untuned, Releases, Pedal Noise, Sound Effects, Ambiences: Notes & Releases for all 88 keys, including the broken ones.
• Kontakt .nki Instrument Presets: 21 powerful presets with 24-bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples.
• Ambient Pads: 20 ambient pads created from the source content.
• Sample Library: 769 stereo samples, 1.75 GB installed.
• Multi-layer User Interface: Flexible and intuitive controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator.
• Full FX Rack: Convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments.