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A beautiful upright felt piano, developed in close collaboration with film and TV composer James Everingham (Frozen Planet II, with Hans Zimmer, Heroes, Apollo: Missions To The Moon).
This is James’s personal piano, which we have sampled in glorious detail to share with composers around the world.
Runs in the free Kontakt Player
NKS COMPATIBLE
Download size
(NCW compressed from 2.2gb sample pool)
Woodchester Piano is the first in our new series of collaborations with talented composers and artists, bringing you a range of finely crafted virtual instruments full of personality. This library was produced in close collaboration with film and TV composer James Everingham and features his Wilh. Steinberg German Series upright piano, intimately recorded with the felt pedal engaged.
Despite its rich and detailed sound, Woodchester Piano has an impressively small memory footprint and can run beautifully on laptops and less powerful computers.
We visited James’s studio and spent several days carefully sampling every nuance of the instrument. We then spent many months mixing, polishing and fine-tuning the instrument, resulting in a stunning virtual piano with a beautifully versatile sound, which is a joy to play.
Woodchester Piano also includes key release and pedal samples, a unique pianist noise feature to add subtle rustling and wood creaks for heightened realism and adjustable colour control to dial in the perfect tone for your composition.
Woodchester Piano includes three atmospheric sound design layers which blend together with the raw piano beautifully.
These layers can be dialled in to taste using the Layer Mixer. Additionally, the global ‘intensity’ of these layers can be controlled using the ‘Atmosphere Intensity’ dial, or automated in real-time using the mod wheel.
We are delighted to offer full NKS support for Woodchester Piano. Harnessing the power of Native Instruments’ Komplete Kontrol keyboards, you have full hands-on control of the instrument, using the built-in display and parameter controls on the keyboard. This also means that Woodchester Piano is accessible to blind and visually impared musicians. Furthermore, Woodchester Piano is compatible with the free Kontakt Player, with activation through Native Access, meaning you can use the library without purchasing any additional software. You can download Kontakt Player from the Native Instruments website.