Hephaestus has released Steinway Grand 2, a free compact piano library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

Hephaestus Sounds Steinway Grand 2

This is the 2nd version of our Steinway piano. It uses the same samples of the 1st version, but we’ve fixed a lot of sound issues and increased the sound quality. If you want to try it…please, it’s FREE!

Steinway Grand 2 features

  • 44.1KHz 16-bit Stereo sample resolution.
  • Looped samples.
  • 3-band EQ to adjust the sound.
  • IR Reverb knob (new).
  • Key-off switch to enable/disable the key-off noise.
  • Fixed the bad flanger effect when pressing the sustain pedal (new).
  • Totally redesigned the script that controls the sustain pedal behaviour (new).
  • Harmonics / Resonance effects with IR (new).
  • Some notes have been retuned and adjusted EQ dynamics (new).
  • 48 MB size.
  • Kontakt 5.2 or newer required (Kontakt Player not supported).

The library is a free download.

More information: Hephaestus