Baby Piano  

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  "Baby Piano sounds exactly like you would expect: a broken, fragile sounding toy piano. It’s a perfect example of how something one might consider to be trash can still be used to create some lovely instruments... I find it inspiring" from the Rekkerd review, read the full review  HERE

 

  The Baby Piano is a Chinese Toy Piano. I found it at a flea market and it obviously has seen better days.  There are 2 keys missing, its casing is worn out and there are loose parts in it.  The sound is not even from one key to another partly because the mechanism of some keys is damaged and it's also not in tune.

 It's nonetheless lovely and its sound begged to be sampled.  I did not stop there and I also created 15 unique resynthesized sounds from the original samples. These can be used as electric pianos, keys and/ or bells.

  This sample set is available in soundfont, Kontakt 3 (with the wav files), sfz and Wusikstation V5 sfz formats.  It is Donationware. 

  - The Baby Piano free set contains all the acoustic samples (2 programs) and 4 of the resynthesized sounds for a total of 6 programs and 5 sounds (38 MB).  It can be downloaded here:  Soundfont    Kontakt 3    sfz Wusik

 Note that the wav files are in the Kontakt download and are needed for the sfz and Wusik V5 formats. 

 

  - People who donate at least $2 US will receive a link to download the Baby Piano standard version which contains 3 more programs for the acoustic samples and 7 more resynthesized sounds for a total of 18 programs and 12 sounds (86.3 MB).

 - People who donate at least $10 US will receive the Baby Piano standard version and an extra set, the Baby Bells.  This extra set has 4 more sounds resynthesized from the Baby Piano and 9 programs (123 MB).  These "bell" sounds are characterized by long decays of up to 15 seconds.

 There's a text file named "Baby_Piano_Program_list.txt " included in the Baby Piano free set that gives more info about the sounds and the different packages.  I hope that everything is clear but don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

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MP3 demos

 Baby Piano:  Buzzpluck     Sweet Tine    Bell

   The next 3 examples were made with styles from Synapse Audio Orion:  Plucky    Strong Buzz    Sweep

  Sweep, Sweet Tine and Bell layered, with phaser added:  Layers 01  

 Baby Bells: TP Bell 01 low    TP Bell 02    Space Bell    Absurd Bell 02a    Absurd Bell 02b   

                   Absurd Bell 02c    Absurd Bell 03    TP Bell 01    Howling Bell

                   Howling Bell pattern    Howling and TP 02 bells layered

  

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There will be no refunds, so please try the demos before buying. All products are downloadable.

 If you live in Canada the 5% GST will be automatically added to your order.

Comments and questions are welcomed.
 

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