Which Native Instruments piano includes a lot of piano mechanical noise (hammers and keys)?

UltimateOutsider
UltimateOutsider Member Posts: 8 Newcomer
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I am looking for a Piano Kontakt instrument that includes a lot of extra piano noise (for example, the sounds of the springs and hammers inside the piano, or even the sounds of the keys being depressed). I remember a Kontakt-based piano that included these sounds, and I could have sworn it was a Native Instruments library included with Komplete, but I have not managed to find it yet. Is this ringing bells with anyone here?

At first I thought it might have been Una Corda or The Giant (regular or cinematic), but after checking both of those out again, I don't think they're what I'm remembering.

In 2014 I did a review of all of NI's pianos as of that time for my blog (apparently my account here is not new enough to post links. I've been a customer since 2010!), and I don't hear the sounds I'm looking for in any of those examples- but for those clips I was using the default preset for each piano, so those extra sounds might have been in a preset, or a control that was turned down in the default settings.

Does anyone know of a Kontakt piano instrument that lets you mix in the hammer and/or key sounds of the piano? (Even 3rd party is fine if it does what I'm looking for.)

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  • mykejb
    mykejb Moderator Posts: 2,348 mod
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    Una Corda has mechanical and pedal sounds you can mix in - note on/off for the mechanical and rumble/damper/strings for the pedal. Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for though.

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  • UltimateOutsider
    UltimateOutsider Member Posts: 8 Newcomer

    *my forum account is not OLD enough to post links, rather. Apparently too new edit my own posts, as well. 😑

  • mykejb
    mykejb Moderator Posts: 2,348 mod
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    Una Corda has mechanical and pedal sounds you can mix in - note on/off for the mechanical and rumble/damper/strings for the pedal. Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for though.

  • UltimateOutsider
    UltimateOutsider Member Posts: 8 Newcomer

    I loaded Una Corda up a couple days ago because I thought that was the one where I had noticed that feature years back. I didn't hear the sounds I remembered in any of the presets, so I figured that wasn't it.

    But just now, after seeing your post, I downloaded the manual and it appears that when I was testing it out most recently I did not notice the "Workbench" tab where those options are.

    This is the NI library I was thinking of. Thank you for confirming it.

    In my search I have also discovered two non-NI libraries that might do what I'm looking for (Echo Soundworks Loft Piano and Fracture Sounds Woodchester Piano), but I am going to try to work with Una Corda first since I already own it.

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